Bill Comey with fish
Photograph
Simmons negative number 085
A middle-age man wearing a tie under his cardigan sweater shows of a string of fish. Behind him at least two dingy-type boats tied up at a dock.
Index text:
85 0/1 Saugatuck - People, Fishing Bill Comey with string of fish
From photographic negatives created by William R. Simmons, editor of the Commercial Record newspaper between 1941 and 1961.
More information may be in the 2001 SDHS book "Off the Record"
2022.21.085
Visitors Respond to Pictures in Simmons' Exhibit The Lace Man Mr. Comey [who was pictured with a day's catch of fish] lived at Wickwood Apartments. He sold lace and other fabulous fabrics and gave his samples to the Boyce girls who lived in the nearby Buffalo house to make doll clothes, 1950-1958. https://sdhistoricalsociety.org/publications/NLHist/P238-239.php
03/09/2022
01/17/2024
Comey, William "Bill" Augustine 1876-1976
William (Bill) Simmons
Winthers, Sally
Negative
Photograph
Graphic Documents
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Category 08: Communication Objects
194 Simmons Negatives
Simmons, William "Bill" R. 1890/1-1966