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Sage Library, Bay City, Michigan, 1912

Subject
Libraries
Card type
Lithograph
Date
c. 1912 (Golden Age)
Front of Sage Library, Bay City, Michigan, 1912, c. 1912 lithograph postcard
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Back of Sage Library, Bay City, Michigan, 1912, c. 1912 lithograph postcard
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About this postcard

The Sage Library in Bay City, a two-story light stone building with a steep gabled roof, corner turret, and an arched entrance marked "READING ROOM," stands behind a lawn shaded by large trees. A statue fills a niche beside the door, and a curved walk leads up from the street. Lillian wrote from Bay City in late August 1912 to Kittie in Ann Arbor, glad that Kittie was having a good time and reporting that she and the children would leave Friday for a week's visit in Linwood, with regards passed along to Agnes. Bay City was then a lumber and shipbuilding town on Saginaw Bay, and its library, built in the 1880s with a gift from lumberman Henry W. Sage, served the neighborhood as both reading room and lending collection.

Postcard Details

Message · English, in pen

8-21-12. Dear Kittie, Glad you are having a good time. The children & I leave Friday for a weeks visit in Linwood tell Agnes that I got her last postal Best regards to all Lillian

PublisherP&S C
Sage Library, Bay City, Mich. READING ROOM P14462 --- POST CARD PLACE STAMP HERE UNITED STATES AND CANADA ONE CENT FOREIGN- TWO CENTS. THIS SPACE MAY BE USED FOR MESSAGE THIS SPACE FOR THE ADDRESS
PostmarkedBay City, MI
Addressed to
Mrs. Robt. Mutholland

[illegible] Packard St Ann Arbor, MI

Postcard record

PostmarkedBay City, MI
PublisherP&S C
SeriesP14462
ConditionGood
Place addressedMrs. Robt. Mutholland, [illegible] Packard St, Ann Arbor, MI
Place depictedSage Library, Bay City, MI
Place depictedBay City, MI
Stamp1c printed stamp box inscription (United States and Canada one cent; Foreign two cents)
NotesTextured lithographic surface with visible screen pattern; no white border; creases and scuffing across the image; card number P14462 printed at lower left. Postmark: BAY CITY MICH AUG 21 5 PM. Divided-back card written in purple ink; stamp removed (no stamp present); card creased, stained and edge-worn. Street number in address struck through and illegible.

Cite this card

Sage Library, Bay City, Michigan, 1912, postcard, c. 1912. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/sage-library-bay-city-michigan-1912. Accessed November 2, 2026.