Traverse City High School Commencement Program, 1930.

Ephraim Y. Linderman.

Back of photo has handwritten:

Mr. E. Y. Linderman

Traverse City

Mich.

Minnie Smith.

Back of photograph has handwritten "Minnie Smith."

Nettie (Kentner) Moore.

Back of photo has handwritten "Nettie Moore."

Cecil and Willetta (Reynolds) Sluyter.

Back of picture has handwritten:

 Cecil & Willetta Sluyters
Wedding Picture taken Jan. 1, 1888.
In Traverse City Mich
My Mother & Dad Cecil born Sept 23- 1861.
In log cabin. In Grand Traverse county Mich. W
illetta Born Aug. 6 1868
 In Indiana came to Mich when 10 yrs old.

A year or two later I purchased an album of Sluyter and Reynolds family photos on Ebay and found the same wedding photo. This version was marked McManus Bros. TRAVERSE CITY, MICH.

Also present was this carte de visite of Cecil Sluyter that was probably taken in the early 1880s.

McManus Bros., Photographists, Traverse City, Mich.

George G. Bates

George G. Bates in his Knights of Columbus uniform.



















McManus Brothers, Traverse City, Mich.

George G. Bates, wearing his Knights of Columbus uniform.

George was born circa 1873 in New York. He lived with his wife Mayme and two-year-old daughter Janette at 213 Franklin Street in Traverse City on Tuesday, April 19, 1910, working as the proprietor of a magazine shop. They had moved to Traverse City sometime between 1908 and 1910 (Archiball F. Cameron household, 1910 US census, Grand Traverse County, Michigan, population schedule, Traverse City ward 1, ED 51, SD 11, sheet 5A, dwelling 98, family 108; NARA microfilm T624, roll 648).

1932 Graduation Announcement, Traverse City High School

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