Circa 1900 to 1920
Cass County, Michigan
The Andrus Collection
Page 5
Ice on Pleasant Lake
| Edwardsburg Photos
Circa 1900 to 1920 Cass County, Michigan The Andrus Collection Page 5 |
Ice on Pleasant Lake |
Photos property of Dean Andrus and @ copyrighted with special permission given to the Cass County Genweb to use them on site.
To find out about purchasing a CD, which has approximately 339 photos, not all of the photos are here on site, contact Mr. Dean Andrus at - hazard139@aol.comDean Andrus, son of Charles Andrus who, with his Uncle George Andrus and Grandfather, Henry Andrus owned and operated the Edwardsburg Argus for many years. Dean grew up in Edwardsburg and as kid found a box of 350 glass plate negatives of photos taken of the Edwardsburg area from 1900 to 1920 or so by George. The story of my finding them and finally scanning them and producing a CD of the images is attached in the introduction that Dean wrote to go along with the CD which he donated to the Edwardsburg Library, the Edwardsburg Area Historical Museum and to this web site (most recently) Dean had recently been in touch with a cousin, Ben Kinsey, who had submitted a number of items for our inclusion on this GenWeb site and this has led Dean to consider submitting the photos for use on the site to make them more widely available to the public and hopefully get some help in identifying some of the people and places depicted.
This collage includes photos of churches, streets, houses, barns, schools, businesses, cottages, lake, auto livery, horse and buggy, funeral home, hearse, etc. and a lot of people. Those of Dean's family have been identified along with a few of the others and the Museum has identified a few more. They take walks around town yearly to try and identify other homes in the photos.
Can you help identify anyone or place in the collage of photos below? Some have been identified and others are a mystery.
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See below photos for additional information
 131-Lake Shoreline at Lake |
132-LAKE-ICE Winter scene at lake |
 133-horse Dr. Tonkin house |
 135-MECHURCH Methodist Church |
 137-ME-BAPCHURCH Methodist & Baptist Church |
 138-CassSt Main Street - see below |
 139-BRBEShop E. S. Claire Barber Shop |
 140-PBCHURCH Presbyterian Church |
 141-CassSt_N Cass St. looking North |
 142-School Old Edwardsburg School |
 143-Drugstpo Drugstore & P. O. see below |
 144-Cassstso Cass St. Looking South |
 145Shermanhse Sherman House |
 147-schoolch School house & Churches |
 148-argus Argus Office |
 149-drugst B. C. Fisk Drugstore - see below |
 150-barn Man & horse with barn |
 151-barnhicks J. H. Hicks Barn 1911 |
 152-barnkinney Fairview Farm see below |
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 153-barnraising Barn raising |
 154-barnraising barn raising |
 155-house House - Unidentified |
 156-house 4 adults with child Unidentified |
 157-cottage-4p Cottage - people Unidentified |
 160-cottage-3p Cottage - people Unidentified |
 161-househorse Dunninbg then Hadden house - |
 162-house-car O. V. Hicks House |
 163-house House on Main and Lake Sts. |
 164-house Unidentified |
 165-house Dr. Tonkin house |
 166-house-2p Unidentified |
 167-house-3p Unidentified |
 168-house-Gunn Dr. Sweetland house |
 169-house Aldrich or Williams house - see below |
 170-1p Unidentified |
Reference Number and description
131 Shoreline of Pleasant Lake.
132 Winter scene taken from on ice at Pleasant Lake. Probably ice house built by James H. Andrus to store ice cut from lake in winter to supply
cottages with ice during the summer months.
133 Man and horse on Main St. in front of Dr. Tonkin house. (Now Mayhew Funeral home).
134 Flowers on porch steps.omitted from page
135 Methodist Church on Church St. before steeples were damaged in a Windstorm in 1924 and removed. Buggy shed in rear.
136 See 135. omitted from page
137 Methodist and Baptist Churches on Church St. See 003.
138** Main St., W. M. Walter and Bro., Gifts, Shoes.
139 E. S. Claire Tonsorial Parlor (Barber Shop) on Cass St. Burned down.
140 Presbyterian Church, corner of Elkhart and Lake Streets.
141 Cass St. looking north to Main St.
142 Schoolhouse. See 005.
143 B. C. Fisk Druggist, Drugstore and Post Office which later became a tavern.
144** Cass St. looking south from Main St.
145 Sherman House Hotel on Main St.
146** Looking east on Main St. with windmill at Main and Cass St. R. S. Carlisle and Son Hardware and Furniture. omitted from page
147 Schoolhouse with Methodist and Baptist Churches in background.
148 Argus Office on Main St. with Henry Andrus on the porch.
149 B. C. Fisk Drugstore, corner of Cass and Main Sts., man with oxcart.
150 Barn with man and horse.
151 Barn, J. H. Hicks 1911.
152 Barn, Fairview Farm, F. M. Kinney 1905, razed in 1998, on US12 and Anderson Rd.
153 Barn raising.
154 “ “
155 House with windmill.
156 House with 4 people.
157 Cottage with 4 people.
158 Odd Fellows Hall with cow and rabbit, 26848 Main St., negative reversed, See 327. omitted from page
159* Cottage with 3 people. omitted from page
160 Cottage with 2 people and child.
161 John Hadden house, 27551 US12, built for Oscar Dunning in 1843. Now Owned by Bob Runkle.
162 O. V. Hicks house, US12 and Conrad Rd.
163 House, Main and Lake Sts., 26847 Main St.
164 House
165 Dr. Tonkin house.
166 House with 2 women.
167 House with 3 people, windmill and buggy.
168 Dr. Sweetland house.
169 Aldrich or Williams house, 68994 First St. at Church St.
170 House with 1 woman.* Indicates newly scanned negatives, shown as “not printed” on the Flip Album
CD due to under- or over-exposure.
** Indicates rescans of negatives of poor quality on the Flip Album CD.
These photos are included on a separate CD, not in the Flip Album format. They are in the .jpg format and may be viewed by any computer image viewer.