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Steamships Puritan and Chequamegon at the Traverse City passenger dock. The West Bay shoreline in Traverse City was a busy place in the latter part of the 1800s and early 1900s when Thomas Bates owned the Grand Traverse Herald. This 1908 photo was taken by Traverse City photographer Orson W. Peck.