Forrest B. Meek, Michigan Photograph Collection, 1865, 1976, and undated
.5 cubic feet (in 1 box)
Collection of the Clare and Saginaw, Michigan, lumber, and Purple Gang photographs.
The collection is of photographs, mostly of Clare and/or Clare County, Michigan, its lumber camps, lumber yards, lumber companies, lumber men, and Clare personalities. Of interest are two portraits of Jack Livingston and Isaiah Leebove. Livingston shot Leebove in the Doherty Hotel in Clare in a Purple Gang related shooting. Also, there is a photograph of Griffin and Meek together.