Project Scroll Research Note 2026-60: John Inbody at Eagle Lake, Michigan, in the summer of 1910: French's Landing and French's Hotel in the Catalog of Copyright Entries

Two real-photo postcards of French's Hotel, Eagle Lake, Michigan, marked "Copyright by Inbody," are held by the Library of Congress. The Copyright Office's printed Catalog of Copyright Entries for 1910 dates them and adds five more Eagle Lake views by the same photographer, John Inbody of Elkhart, Indiana. On 4 July 1910 he registered "Eagle Lake, Mich.: French's landing. 1–3.—Good fishing.—Launch race," together with five views of Edwardsburg, including the Grand Trunk station; on 30 July 1910, "Eagle Lake, Mich., French's hotel" (J 143801); and on 27 August 1910, "Eagle Lake, Mich., French hotel" (J 144708). The entries fix the dates of the two hotel cards, show that Inbody worked the lake on at least two occasions that summer, and record the name French's Landing in use in July 1910. Project Scroll Research Note 2026-60, version 1. The note sets out the record quoted, where it is held, what it changes, its limits, and what was searched before calling it new. Web version: projectscroll.com/discoveries/notes/2026-60/.