Watkins – Browning Farm
Museum Gallery
Watkins – Browning Farm
Object ID: 2002-002-056
Collection: FarmsSubjects: photographic, print
Watkins – Browning Farm
Watkins – Browning Farm
Object ID: 2002-002-055
Collection: FarmsSubjects: photographic, print
Watkins – Browning Farm
Watkins Castle Hill Farm
Object ID: 2002-002-054
Collection: FarmsSubjects: Photo
Watkins Castle Hill Farm
Ward – Strong boathouse (August 1975).
Object ID: 2002-002-053
Date: 1975
Collection: WardSubjects: Photo
Ward – Strong boathouse (August 1975).
Ward – Strong boathouse (Doughty Collection)
Object ID: 2002-002-052
Collection: WardSubjects: Photo
Ward – Strong boathouse (Doughty Collection)
Ward – Strong boathouse (Doughty Collection)
Object ID: 2002-002-051
Collection: WardSubjects: Photo
Ward – Strong boathouse (Doughty Collection)
Ward – Summers House – Stairway from 3rd Floor to Tower
Object ID: 2002-002-049
Collection: WardSubjects: Photo
Ward – Summers House – Stairway from 3rd Floor to Tower. Behind camera, two furnished rooms, a bedroom and the six-sided sitting under the Tower. Beyond the door, four bedrooms for overflow at holidays for relatives or servants. These were not nicely furnished. They surrounded a large water storage tank, I think lake water, used for washing. Drinking water used separate pipes from a well. These extra rooms were above two large nice servants rooms and bath on second floor. Back stairway went from kitchen to third floor.
Ward – Summers House
Object ID: 2002-002-048
Collection: WardSubjects: Photo
Ward – Summers House. Larger of two-room suite west of center hall (above drawing room) Bed and rocking chair is the Summers’ first furniture after marriage in 1917.
Ward – Summers House – Guest Room
Object ID: 2002-002-047
Collection: WardSubjects: photographic, print
Ward – Summers House – Guest Room. Small room of two – room suite east of 2nd floor center hall
Ward – Summers House – Upstairs Center Hall
Object ID: 2002-002-046
Collection: WardSubjects: photographic, print
Ward – Summers House – Upstairs Center Hall. Upstairs center hall, opening to veranda at 2nd floor level. Rosewood piano carted over the Allegheny Mountains long after that, Mrs. Summers bought it for $15. The wide hallways were lined with rocking chairs in the 1890s as a sitting and visiting room for the relatives during large family holiday gatherings in the Wards Time.
Ward – Summers House
Object ID: 2002-002-045
Collection: WardSubjects: photographic, print
Ward – Summers House. Nine foot wide stairway. Visitors always commented Perfect for a wedding. Both Summers daughters took advantage of the beautiful setting.
Ward – Summer House – Dining Room
Object ID: 2002-002-044
Collection: WardSubjects: photographic, print
Ward – Summer House – Dining Room. Stairway down five steps to door opening to porte cochere. Carved wooden pieces on the silverware chests are knife holders, lid lifts from the middle, and inside are places for each knife to be inserted.
Ward – Summer House – Master Bedroom
Object ID: 2002-002-043
Collection: WardSubjects: photographic, print
Ward – Summer House – Master Bedroom. First Floor, Cass Lake side
Ward – Summer House – Library
Object ID: 2002-002-042
Collection: WardSubjects: photographic, print
Ward – Summer House – Library. Our family’s living room. Right window looks out to port cochere (carriage door) main entrance from driveway. Cass Lake side.
Ward – Summer House – Drawing Room
Object ID: 2002-002-041
Collection: WardSubjects: photographic, print
Ward – Summer House – Drawing Room. Aubusson carpet made (for the Wards) especially to fit the room: (corner for fireplace).
Ward – Summer House – Center Hall
Object ID: 2002-002-040
Collection: WardSubjects: photographic, print
Ward – Summer House – Center Hall. Coming in from front veranda and looking into library. Grandfather clock belonged to Harold Ward – he left it there for years. It had the sun and moon movements above the face of the clock.
Ward – Summers House – Looking toward Cass Lake
Object ID: 2002-002-039
Collection: WardSubjects: photographic, print
Ward – Summers House aerial view showing the cupola – Looking toward Cass Lake
Ward – Summers House (1892-1970 changed hands in 1936)
Object ID: 2002-002-038
Collection: WardSubjects: Photo
Ward – Summers House (1892-1970 changed hands in 1936) showing the cupola
Ward Family – Bobsledding, First Trip On Cutter
Object ID: 2002-002-037
Collection: WardSubjects: Photo
Ward Family – Bobsledding, First Trip On Cutter
Bobsled Party (Ward Collection)
Object ID: 2002-002-036
Collection: WardSubjects: photographic, print
Bobsled Party (Ward Collection)
Willis Ward Home on Apple Island (1920-1946).
Object ID: 2002-002-035
Collection: WardSubjects: photographic, print
Willis Ward Home on Apple Island (1920-1946).
David Ward House
Object ID: 2002-002-034
Collection: WardSubjects: photographic, print
D. Ward House showing the cupola
West Bloomfield Lakes Office – Northeast Shore of Orchard Lake
Object ID: 2002-002-033
Collection: BusinessesSubjects: photographic, print
West Bloomfield Lakes Office – Northeast Shore of Orchard Lake (Ward Collection) – This was Willis Ward’s real estate office and still sits on the grounds of Orchard Lake St. Marys’ at the corner of Commerce Road and Old Indian Trail.
David Ward House
Object ID: 2002-002-032
Collection: WardSubjects: photographic, print
David Ward House showing the cupola that was removed before demolition and restored as part of an addition to an exisitng house on Pontiac Trail.
Ward Collection (stereograph) – Stupendous Log Raft, Columbia River, Oregon.
Object ID: 2002-002-031
Collection: Union Lake, WardSubjects: photographic, print
Ward Collection (stereograph) – Stupendous Log Raft, Columbia River, Oregon.
Ward – Summers House (Doughty Collection)
Object ID: 2002-002-030
Collection: WardSubjects: photographic, print
Ward – Summers House (Doughty Collection)
Ward – Summers House (Doughty Collection)
Object ID: 2002-002-029
Collection: WardSubjects: photographic, print
Ward – Summers House (Doughty Collection)
Ward – Summers House (Doughty Collection)
Object ID: 2002-002-028
Collection: WardSubjects: photographic, print
Ward – Summers House (Doughty Collection)
Ward Summers House – (Doughty Collection)
Object ID: 2002-002-027
Collection: WardSubjects: photographic, print
Ward Summers House – (Doughty Collection)
Ward – (Doughty Collection)
Object ID: 2002-002-026
Collection: WardSubjects: photographic, print
Ward – (Doughty Collection)
Ward – (Doughty Collection)
Object ID: 2002-002-025
Collection: WardSubjects: photographic, print
Ward – (Doughty Collection)
Ward – (Doughty Collection)
Object ID: 2002-002-024
Collection: WardSubjects: photographic, print
Ward – (Doughty Collection)
Ward – (Doughty Collection)
Object ID: 2002-002-023
Collection: WardSubjects: photographic, print
Ward – (Doughty Collection)
Ward – (Doughty Collection)
Object ID: 2002-002-022
Collection: WardSubjects: photographic, print
Ward – (Doughty Collection)
Ward – (Doughty Collection)
Object ID: 2002-002-021
Collection: WardSubjects: photographic, print
Ward – (Doughty Collection)
Ward – (Doughty Collection)
Object ID: 2002-002-020
Collection: WardSubjects: photographic, print
Ward – (Doughty Collection)
Ward – Summers House (Doughty Collection)
Object ID: 2002-002-019
Collection: WardSubjects: photographic, print
Ward – Summers House (Doughty Collection)
Ward Mansion Archeological Dig
Object ID: 2002-002-018
Collection: WardSubjects: photographic, print
Ward Mansion Archeological Dig
Ward Mansion Archeological Dig
Object ID: 2002-002-017
Collection: WardSubjects: photographic, print
Ward Mansion Archeological Dig
Ward Mansion Archeological Dig
Object ID: 2002-002-016
Collection: WardSubjects: photographic, print
Ward Mansion Archeological Dig
Ward Mansion Archeological Dig
Object ID: 2002-002-015
Collection: WardSubjects: photographic, print
Ward Mansion Archeological Dig
Ward Mansion Archeological Dig
Object ID: 2002-002-014
Collection: Biography, WardSubjects: photographic, print
Ward Mansion Archeological Dig
Ward Mansion Archeological Dig
Object ID: 2002-002-013
Collection: WardSubjects: photographic, print
Ward Mansion Archeological Dig
Ward Mansion Archeological Dig
Object ID: 2002-002-012
Collection: Biography, Orchard Lake, WardSubjects: photographic, print
Ward Mansion Archeological Dig
Ward Mansion Archeological Dig
Object ID: 2002-002-011
Collection: WardSubjects: photographic, print
Ward Mansion Archeological Dig
Ward Mansion Archeological Dig
Object ID: 2002-002-010
Collection: WardSubjects: photographic, print
Ward Mansion Archeological Dig
Ward Mansion Archeological Dig
Object ID: 2002-002-009
Collection: WardSubjects: photographic, print
Ward Mansion Archeological Dig
Ward Mansion Archeological Dig
Object ID: 2002-002-008
Collection: WardSubjects: photographic, print
Ward Mansion Archeological Dig
Ward Mansion Archeological Dig
Object ID: 2002-002-007
Collection: WardSubjects: photographic, print
Ward Mansion Archeological Dig
Fred J. Walls in front of Scotch school
Object ID: 2002-002-006
People: Walls, Fred J.
Collection: SchoolsSubjects: photographic, print
Fred J. Walls in front of Scotch school. In his autobiography, Winford R. Hamlin remembers attending Scotch school while living on Apple Island – That spring I was six years old so I had to start school. My sister was two years older than I was. We had to cross the lake, then walk a mile to the Old Scotch school. In the winter my mother would take us with the one horse sleigh. In the Spring, Summer and Fall she would take us across the lake by boat and we would have the mile to walk to school.
Rod Turner (around 1935)
Object ID: 2002-002-002
Date: 1935
People: Turner, Rod
Collection: BiographySubjects: photographic, print
Rod Turner (around 1935)
Turner Collection (1935)
Object ID: 2002-001-999
Collection: BiographySubjects: photographic, print
Turner Collection (1935)
General Frederick Strong (center).
Object ID: 2002-001-998
People: Strong, Frederick Smith
Collection: BiographySubjects: photographic, print, Strong
General Frederick Strong (center).
John Doherty (right), Wm. Henry, General Frederick Strong (left).
Object ID: 2002-001-997
People: Doherty, John Strong, Frederick Smith
Collection: BiographySubjects: photographic, print
John Doherty (right), Wm. Henry, General Frederick Strong (left).
Lt. Col. Frederick Strong (1918)
Object ID: 2002-001-996
People: Strong, Frederick Smith
Collection: BiographySubjects: photographic, print
Lt. Col. Frederick Strong (1918)
Marjorie Ward Strong Woodland Sanctuary Sign
Object ID: 2002-001-995
Collection: Apple IslandSubjects: photographic, print, Strong, Ward
Apple Island – Marjorie Ward Strong Woodland Sanctuary Sign
General Frederick Strong Home
Object ID: 2002-001-994
Date: 1976
Collection: StrongSubjects: photographic, print
General Frederick Strong Home located on the S. side of Pontiac Trail, W. of Orchard Lake Rd. In the City of Orchard Lake. Mrs. Strong was Marjorie Ward. The Ward family were early settlers in what is now the City of Orchard Lake. (1976)
A Bill Stout Scarab Car
Object ID: 2002-001-993
Collection: BiographySubjects: photographic, print
A Bill Stout Scarab Car
Bill Stout, age four, with bucksaw.
Object ID: 2002-001-992
People: Stout, Bill
Collection: BiographySubjects: photographic, print
Bill Stout, age four, with bucksaw.
Stickney House
Object ID: 2002-001-991
Collection: BiographySubjects: photographic, print
Stickney House
Smithson House
Object ID: 2002-001-990
Collection: BiographySubjects: photographic, print
Smithson House
Smithson House – Ice House
Object ID: 2002-001-989
Collection: BiographySubjects: photographic, print
Smithson House – Ice House
Smithson House – Ice House
Object ID: 2002-001-988
Collection: Keego HarborSubjects: photographic, print
Smithson House – Ice House
Smithson House – Den
Object ID: 2002-001-987
Collection: BiographySubjects: photographic, print
Smithson House – Den
Smithson – Dining Room
Object ID: 2002-001-986
Collection: BiographySubjects: photographic, print
Smithson – Dining Room
Ed Skae owner of West Wind Farm
Object ID: 2002-001-985
People: Skae, Ed
Collection: BiographySubjects: photographic, print
Ed Skae owner of West Wind Farm on the corner of Middlebelt and Orchard Lake Road.
Thirteen members of Greater Eastern Band of Detroit, Michigan
Object ID: 2002-001-977
Date: 1908
Collection: BiographySubjects: Photo, Schultz, walnut lake
Thirteen members of Greater Eastern Band of Detroit, Michigan on porch of Schultz house (May 24, 1908).
Schultz Party
Object ID: 2002-001-970
Collection: BiographySubjects: photographic, print
Schultz Party
Schultz Party
Object ID: 2002-001-969
Collection: BiographySubjects: photographic, print
Schultz Party
Schultz Party
Object ID: 2002-001-968
Collection: BiographySubjects: photographic, print
Schultz Party
Severance House – Walnut Lake (1968)
Object ID: 2002-001-967
Date: 1968
Collection: Walnut LakeSubjects: photographic, print
Severance House – Walnut Lake (1968)