Boardinghouse at Deward sawmill with residents in windows and on pile of short logs in front. Embossed on mat front: "Imperial Art Studios, Grayling, Mich." Handwritten on mat back: "The boarding house at Deward, 1901. Estate of David Ward. 25,000 acres of pine. 9 miles west of Frederic, Mich., on Manistee River, Crawford Co., Mich. This was the first building put up."
