In April of 1913, Hiram Morey received a postcard reminder of the upcoming Club Convention on Mackinac Island.

The address is typed. Perhaps a secretary typed the addresses of club members onto the postcards.

The note is hand-written by Teo. Wilson, whose title is not given.

Hiram lived in Galesburg, Illinois, a city in northwest Illinois, and he belonged to the Galesburg chapter of the national club.

The postcard reminder, mailed from the Hudson Terminal (which no longer exists) in New York, bears a hand-colored photograph of two hotels on Mackinac Island, Michigan.

Mackinac Island occupies about four square miles in Lake Huron, between the upper and lower peninsula of Michigan.

A center of early fur trade with Europeans, and later a fortified outpost of the US Army (captured by the British in the War of 1812), Mackinac Island became a popular tourist destination and a summer colony in the late 19th century.

Interestingly, the island still prohibits motorized vehicles during the summer months; horse carts and carriages are in use.

Thus, some contemporary scenes still look the same as this postcard photograph.

The “club” remains unidentified; the number of civic and business associations of the early 20th century was legion.

One hopes that Hiram was able to attend the convention and that he and his associates enjoyed the resort hotels amid the natural splendor and variable wildlife of Mackinac Island.