(BUSINESS) Promotional ephemera from the Woodland Park devel

Sale 2598 - Lot 170

Price Realized: $ 750

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750

(BUSINESS.) Promotional ephemera from the Woodland Park development in central Michigan. 6 items plus original envelope, as described. Chicago, 1943

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Woodland Park in northern Michigan was founded in 1921, inspired by the resort success of Idlewild fifteen miles to the north (see lot 169). This lot includes:

Promotional form letter from Woodland Park Inland Lakes Inc. describing forest trails, a well-stocked fishing lake, and neighbors who are "your kind of people," and adding in type: "You ask whether colored people can live in Woodland Park. Woodland Park is reserved exclusively for colored people. Thousands of them already own property there and they come from all over the country." Chicago, 16 November 1943.

"How Would You Like to Put Your Name on the Mailbox / Woodland Park Invites You. Only $5 Down." Double-sized color poster / brochure, 21 x 16 inches on newsprint; short separations at folds.

4 copies of the order form, 8 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches. Buyers could choose land which is "flat" or "rolling," and with many, few, or no trees.