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Hotz Cottage

Date: 1918
Description: The Hotz cottage, garage, and stone tower are seen through a stand of birch trees from the base of the bluff in Fish Creek. There is snow on the ground.
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Ferdinand Hotz

Date: 1918
Description: Ferdinand Hotz poses on snowshoes at the base of a bluff. The Hotz cottage complex, built in 1912-3, is seen atop the bluff. The complex included three co...
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Hotz Cottage

Date: 1918
Description: The entrance and gabled front of the main Hotz cottage at Fish Creek, seen after a snowfall. There are rustic branch details under the gables.
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Ice Skating

Date: 1918
Description: Elevated view looking south at members of the Hotz family ice skating on an improvised rink at their Glencoe home.
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Ice Fishing on Green Bay

Date: 1918
Description: Two men holding large fish pose near an ice fishing shanty off of Fish Creek. Another man stands behind them. There is man on an iceboat in the left backgr...
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Ice Fishing on Green Bay

Date: 1918
Description: Four men, three holding large fish, pose near an ice fishing shanty off of Fish Creek. Some of their gear is on the ice.
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Ice Skating

Date: 1918
Description: Elevated view of members of the Hotz family skating on an improvised rink in the yard of their Glencoe home, 1072 Sheridan Road. A porch is visible on the ...
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Winter Scene

Date: 1918
Description: Ferdinand Hotz poses wearing snowshoes at his cottage in Fish Creek, now 4108 Main Street. There is a large snowdrift in the foreground.
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Porch in the Woods

Date: 1921
Description: The porch of the Hotz cottage at Europe Lake, furnished with a rustic table, chairs and benches; the table has been set for a meal. The cottage and porch a...
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Garage at Europe Lake

Date: 1921
Description: A vertical log-sided garage with lean-to porch stands on the side of a hill in the woods. There is a rustic table on the porch. This building was located ...
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Girl with Dog

Date: 1921
Description: The photographer's daughter Margaret poses with a dachshund on the path in front of the Hotz family cottage on Europe Lake. Two flights of steps on a steep...
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Garage at Europe Lake

Date: 1921
Description: The garage, with vertical log siding, near the Hotz family cottage at Europe Lake. There is a pump on the front porch, and a bell with a rope on the peak o...
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Europe Lake Cottage

Date: 1921
Description: The lake side of the Hotz cottage on Europe Lake, showing the porch with rustic lattice work, and steps. A central dormer is flanked by chimneys.
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Road in Winter

Date: 1924
Description: Winter scene with a snow-covered road bordered by stone walls and pillars on Cottage Row Road. Birches and evergreens line the road.
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Sleigh on Door County Harbor

Date: 02 1924
Description: A single horse pulls an enclosed sleigh across a frozen Door County harbor. Houses and a church are visible onshore.
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Mr. Kincaid on Stairs

Date: 02 1924
Description: The caretaker, carrying a lantern, poses on stairs leading up from the log outhouse at the Hotz Europe Lake compound. There is hoar frost on the trees and ...
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Newport

Date: 02 1924
Description: Three men pose on logs as a fourth walks toward them; there are axes and snowshoes on the ground. A large log barn, outhouse, and other buildings are in th...
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Stone Tower

Date: 1924
Description: The stone tower and garage at the Hotz compound. There is also a flag pole and rustic fence. A ladder was used to access the lookout atop the tower, with v...
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Fish Creek Harbor

Date: 1925
Description: Elevated view of Fish Creek from the east; the bluff rises on the left, the harbor is on the right. The cottage in the foreground with pergola and lattice ...
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Door County

Date: 1925
Description: Elevated view of Fish Creek from the east. The photographer's first Fish Creek cottage, with a standing seam metal roof, is in the foreground; in the yard ...

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