Black and white portrait photograph of Hubert Engel as taken by Appleyard Studio of South Haven, Michigan. He is dressed in a three-piece suit and tie while wearing a kind expression on his face.

Black and white photograph of a man in a white t-shirt leaning over and staring intently at what is in front of him. He has short cropped hair and a beard and appears to be working in a workshop. The handwriting on the back of the picture is barely…

Black and white photograph of an elderly man walking on the pier with a bucket in hand. He appears to carefully walking across the ledge along the channel where the Kalamazoo River meets Lake Michigan. The handwriting on the back of the picture reads…

An aerial shot of buildings and boats along the Kalamazoo River waterfront. The photograph is in black and white and framed by the neighboring trees. The back of the photograph has two stamped inscriptions which read: "Saugatuck-Douglas Chamber of…

A black and white photograph of a fishtug boat cruising along the Kalamazoo River.. The back of the photograph has writing which reads, "Fishtug passing Mt. Baldhead Hotel" however, the second line of writing underneath it is illegible. The back of…

Black and white photograph looking down the wooden staircase that leads to the summit of Mt. Baldhead. The handwriting is barely legible, but the top line says "Mt. Baldhead Stairs" and the line underneath is too faint to make out. The back of the…

Bllack and white photograph featuring a group of four women and a little girl all gathered in a living room. The generational differences are evident in the ways in which they are dressed as each woman seems to represent a different era. The back of…

Black and white photograph of a group of men leaning over the back of The Island Queen river boat while trying to tie it to the dock. There are four men on the boat all looking down while they approach the dock. The inscription is typed on a piece…

Black and white photograph of a man sitting in his boat, tied in between two posts, with his back to the camera. He appears to be fishing in Lake Kalamazoo and another boat can be seen in the distance. The description on the back of the photograph…

Black and white photograph of a group of four young people driving across the sand in Saugatuck, Michigan. The automobile they are riding in appears to be a dune buggy and is identified as being from the 1940s. The handwriting on the back of the…

Black and white photograph featuring rolling sand dunes covered with patchy dunegrass and the forest line in the distance. The handwriting on the back of the photograph reads: "Dunes near Goshorn Lake." There is a stamp underneath which reads:…

Black and white photograph of a Lake Michigan beach scene in Saugatuck, Michigan. It appears to be a busy day at Oval Beach where people are sunbathing on the sand and swimming in the lake. On the back of the photograph there is a stamp which reads:…

Black and white photograph of a gentleman, who appears to be a priest, standing next to a building which appears to be a greenhouse. The building has a large dome structure and there is a cross in the distance on the top of the steeple of a church…

Black and white photograph of a group of men painting outside as part of the Oxbow Club. It appears to be a warm and sunny summer's day as they are all wearing hats and one of the men in the foreground has his shirt tied around his waist. There is…

Photograph of a trio of young people bent over and appearing to assemble doors in front of the Red Barn Theatre entrance. The picture is in black and white and the trio consists of one woman and two men. The handwriting on the back of the photograph…

Jean Arnold describes growing up Douglas with many memories of various jobs she held as a teenager. She also describes her encounters with the LGBT community in the 70's

Neil Atherton grew up in Illinois near Milwaukee and came to Saugatuck in the early 1980s. He and his partner Jim Yarro operated the gift shop Hoopdee Scootee from 1982 to 2016. In this interview, Atherton reminisces about Hoopdee Scootee, creative…

A black and white photo of the theater group, the Oxbows, from Wayne State University. There are ten individuals depicted, all in various costumes. One holds a baby.

The back side of "Oxbow Summer 1966." It lists all of the names from right to left of the individuals depicted in the phot and descriptions of them, all written in blue pen. In the bottom right, Oxbow 1966 Summer is written in red pen.

A brochure for the Saugatuck-Douglas Museum 2010 Exhibition, "A Place Called Ox-Bow." The brochure describes the exhibit and also gives the location, admission cost and dates of the exhibition.

A scan of a newspaper article written about the Saugatuck-Douglas Historical Societey Tuesday Talk that was put on to provide "[a]n intimate look Ox-Bow during the mid-1960s and '70s."

Front of the postcard of individuals fishing on the pier in Saugatuck, Michigan

Front of the Between Bridges postcard depicting a road with trees on either side, circa 1910

Two children are sitting in a horse-drawn carriage infront of a house, circa 1910