The Silver Bay Auditorium in a Jesse Sumner Wooley postcard.

Four postcards of Silver Bay and the Narrows by Jesse Sumner Wooley; I love how wild Oneita Bay appears.

One of the less scenic views of Overlook.

Before the gymnasium was built.

Before the Detroit Publishing Company could make color postcards, like the one above, it had to begin with black & white photos. Today the Library of Congress holds the company’s collection of photos and glass negatives. Below are 18 of the original images, many of which became color postcards of Silver Bay:

The Inn, with its southern wing, in the years before the Silver Bay Association purchased the property.

I love the simplicity of this one, published by C.W. Hughes & Co., Mechanicsville, N.Y.

Photo postcard by Jesse Sumner Wooley

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