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Addition to Hotz Residence

Date: 1910
Description: Lumber, wheelbarrows, a screen for sifting sand, and portions of scaffolding clutter the area around a new addition to the rear of the Hotz residence. Ther...
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View of Mackinac Island

Date: 07 1923
Description: View of Mackinac Island from a wooden pier. There are large houses, some with turrets, facing the water.
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Truck on the Ice

Date: 1925
Description: Two men stand in the open back of a pickup truck. The truck, equipped with chains on the rear tires, has driven down a wooden ramp onto the ice. There is...
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Furnace Complex

Date: 02 11 1925
Description: View of the large abandoned furnace complex, left, company store, far right, and blacksmith shop behind the company store, on the site of the Jackson Iron ...
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View of Fayette

Date: 02 1925
Description: An unidentified man looks across Snail Shell Harbor at the remains of the Jackson Iron Company works. The large furnace complex is visible through the tree...
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Furnace Complex

Date: 02 1925
Description: Elevated view of the abandoned Jackson Iron Company furnace complex at Fayette, on the shore of Snail Shell Harbor. Lake Michigan is in the background.
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Dolomite Cliffs

Date: 02 1925
Description: Dolomite cliffs along Snail Shell Harbor are seen in the background between the ruined buildings of the company store, left, and the machine shop on the gr...
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Lime Kiln

Date: 1915
Description: The lime kiln, at right, at Toft Point. Crushed limestone from the nearby quarry was heated in the kiln to make whitewash. Evergreen trees and birches form...
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Lundberg Home

Date: 1915
Description: View from pier of the Lundberg home, with outbuildings along the Green Bay shore at Juddville. A platform with tower and ladder rests on the beach. This li...
Drawing

Design for Mrs. Falk

Date: 1930
Description: A hand-drawn and hand-painted design for an emerald ring, top and side views, labelled No. 1, with a handwritten note "This is Mrs. Falk choice [remainder ...
Drawing

Design for Emerald Ring

Date: 1930
Description: An art deco-influenced design for an emerald ring, showing a top and side view, hand-drawn and painted on tissue and mounted on a card. A note says "For Mr...
Drawing

Design for Necklace

Date: 1920
Description: A highly detailed design for a necklace featuring a large green stone and two teardrop shape stones hanging below it.
Drawing

Designs for a Brooch

Date: 1920
Description: A drawing of a design for a buckle shaped brooch featuring blue square cut stones. The two halves of the design represent options III and IV to be offered ...
Drawing

Design for Necklace

Date: 1930
Description: A drawing of a design for a necklace with a large faceted blue stone hanging from a chain with circular and rectangular links.
Drawing

Design for Brooch

Date: 1930
Description: A colored drawing, on tissue, of a design for a brooch featuring a large, faceted blue stone in the center, with smaller blue cabochons at the corners. Sma...
Drawing

Design for Flower Brooch

Date: 1930
Description: Hand-colored drawing on tissue, in a cardboard mount, of a design for a brooch in the form of a flower on a stem with two leaves. The flower is represented...
Drawing

Design for Brooch

Date: 1930
Description: Hand-colored drawing for an oval brooch featuring three round, dark grey cabochons, in an intricate setting featuring multiple black and coral colored ston...
Drawing

Spider Web Brooch Design

Date: 1930
Description: Hand-colored drawing on green tissue mounted on blue cardboard, of a design for a brooch in the form of a round spider web with a fly trapped on it. The bo...
Drawing

Butterfly Brooch

Date: 1920
Description: Hand-colored drawing on black cardboard of a design for a brooch in the form of a butterfly. The materials are not specified but the drawing depicts multic...
Drawing

Design for a Floral Bracelet

Date: 1930
Description: Hand-colored drawing on green cardboard of a design for a floral bracelet. Pearls form the center of flowers set in rectangular links of openwork textured ...

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