(BUSINESS) Promotional materials for Blass Park and Bells Id

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(BUSINESS.) Promotional materials for Blass Park and Bell's Idlewild in Michigan. 3 items as described, with original mailing envelope. Baldwin, MI, 1926

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Idlewild, in the woods of northern Michigan, was founded in 1912 and soon became one of the nation's first great Black resort towns. Early property owners included Madam C.J. Walker and W.E.B. Du Bos. Offered here are early promotional materials from the idlewild area.

Autograph Letter Signed from William Bell to W.H. Howard of Shreveport, LA, on "Bell's Idlewild" letterhead: "Idlewild is the real place for the colored people, a town that is own and controlled by the Race and we need more good men and women to help us to make a city out of it." Chicago, 11 March 1926.

Illustrated leaflet for "Blass the Land Man, Five Acre Tracts near Idlewild," by George Blass of Baldwin, MI, with plat map on verso.

Illustrated tri-fold brochure, "Growing a House on the Farm . . . Blass the Land Man's Five Acre Tracts Near Idlewild."