Title: Portage Lake Golf Course
Photographer: Unknown
Subject Headings: Manners and Customs - Recreation - Sports - Ball Games - Golf, Persons, Transportation - Automotive
Condition: Poor
Description: Portage Lake Golf Course. First golf club. Photograph taken in the 1910 to 1915 era at the Portage Lake Golf Club, the first club organized in the Upper Peninsula in 1902 and incorporated in 1904. Harry Flora was the golf professional at the club and branded his name on many clubs he handled, some of them still in the possesion of area golfers. Transportation to the course was by these various makes of autos including the Model T Ford at right.
Source of Description: Daily Mining Gazette Newspaper Article
Institution: Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections
Donor: Unknown
Date of Photo: undated
Medium: still image
Color: black and white
Size: 10 cm x 17 cm
Polarity: Positive
Image No: No Neg 2010-07-19-03
Collection Name: MTU Vertical Files - Portage Lake Golf Course
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