Edwardsburg Photos Circa 1900 to 1920 Cass County, Michigan The Andrus Collection Page 6

Originally Allen Dunning residence

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.com

Dean 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

171-houses-2 Unidentified	172-house Eugene Claire home-see below	173-house Dr. Tonkin house	174-house-5p Unidentified
177-house-3p Unidentified	180-logcabin-1p Unidentified - see below	181-house at 26847 Main St. Unidentified	185-house-5p Unidentified
186-house-1p Unidentified	187-cottage-2p Unidentified	188-house-6p E. C. Truitt house later Basham's	191-houseJHA Andrus place - see below
192-house-3phrse Unidentified	193-boy-dog Unidentified	194-3p-cows Unidentified	195-girl Unidentified
196-boy-bike Unidentified	197-8p-brdshoot hunting group - Unidentified	198-gma-baby Grandma with Baby - Unidentified	200-horsewgn-2p Unidentified
202-4ladies Some identified see below	204-BBTeam Edwardsburg HS BB Team	207-9ladies some identified see below	208-1lady Mrs. Leota Peopples see below
209-1lady Unidentified	210-BBteam EHS Baseball team	211-3p people and baby Unidentified	212-2pswing couple Unidentified
213-3p couple & boy Unidentified	214-10p cottage people Unidentified	215-2kids girl and baby Unidentified	217-hrsebuggy Unidentified
218-3p lady, girl & baby Unidentified	219-boyrabbit boy with rabbit Unidentified	220-35p reunion? Unidentified	continued on next page

Reference Number and description

171 House
172 Eugene Claire house, 26876 Main St.. Built for Allen Dunning, sold to Gene Claire.
173 Dr. Tonkin house.
174 House with 3 women and 2 children.
175 House with snow. omitted from page
176* House with 6 people and windmill. omitted from page omitted from page
177 House with woman and 2 children.
178 House with woman and 1 child, at 69089 Maple St., now Mrs. John Otto.
179* House, 6 people and 1 child, Ida (Kitchen) Andrus on left and Subrina and Nelson Kitchen, seated. omitted from page
180 Log cabin.
181 House at 26847 Main St., southwest corner of Lake St.
182* House with large porch, gingerbread and lawn swing. omitted from page
183** Same as 182. omitted from page
184 Same as 169 with 4 people. omitted from page
185 House with 5 people, horse and buggy.
186 House with 1 person.
187 Cottage with 2 people.
188 House of E. C. Truitt with 6 people, later Basham’s.
189** House with snow. omitted from page
190 House, see 172. omitted from page
191 House of James Hudson Andrus on Cass St. with James in front.
192 House with 3 people and horse.
193 Boy with rifle and dog.
194 3 men with horses, mules, bull and dog.
195 Baby
196** Boy and bicycle.
197 8 people with large dead bird.
198 Woman and baby.
199** 3 women. omitted from page
200 Horse and hay wagon with 2 men, at side of Argus Office.
201* Cottage with 6 people.
202 4 women in long fancy dresses and flowered hats. Second from left may be Zendella Andrus.
203* Young girl at side of house. Same background as 238.
204 EHS baseball team.
205* Cottage with 15 people and tent.
206* Cottage with 5 young “dudes”.
207 Ladies group with white dresses and aprons. Ida Andrus, third from right.
208 Mrs. Leota Peopples at Foster house, 26991 Main St., also known as the Boyd Smith home.
209 Woman.
210 EHS baseball team.
211 3 people and baby on porch.
212** Young couple in swing.
213** Young couple with boy on porch.
214 Cottage with 10 people.
215 Young girl and baby.
216 Woman with ivy on porch. Omitted
217 Horse and buggy with 2 people and house in background.
218 Woman with girl and baby.
219 Boy with rabbit.
220 35 people in fine clothes, lake in background.

* 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.

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