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"Pine Barren" — Front View

Date: 1895
Description: Front view of the two-story Queen Anne style home where Lucy and W.A. Holt lived together starting in 1895. The address is 523 Main Street. "A front ver...
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"Pine Barren" — Corner View

Date: 1895
Description: Corner view of the Queen Anne style home where Lucy and W.A. Holt lived together, starting in 1895. The address is 523 W. Main Street. There are no trees o...
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Jeannette Holt in her Wicker Baby Carriage

Date: 1896
Description: Jeannette Holt is sitting in her wicker baby carriage which is parked on the sidewalk at the base of the porch stairs at home. An umbrella, attached to thi...
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Jeannette, Harriet, and Margaret Playing Together

Date: 1897
Description: Cousins Jeannette Holt (left), Harriet Stroh (center), and Margaret (right) Stroh are playing in the backyard of the Holt home. W.A. Holt is crouching down...
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In the Holt Family Backyard

Date: 1897
Description: Cousins Jeannette Holt (left) and either Harriet or Margaret Stroh (right) are playing in the backyard under the supervision of grandmother Mary Mathilda A...
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Jeannette Holt Pulling a Toy Wooden Wagon

Date: 1897
Description: Jeannette Holt is pulling a toy wooden wagon across the lawn in her backyard while looking over her shoulder back towards the camera. In the far background...
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Sitting under the Canopy in Oconto

Date: 1899
Description: Shaded by a striped canopy, three women are sitting together and smiling in the Holt family backyard. Wearing aprons, the woman on the left and the woman w...
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Aunt May and Jeannette Holt in the Backyard

Date: 05 08 1899
Description: Looking at the camera, Jeannette Holt is standing next to her aunt May in the backyard of the Holt family home. Minnie May Rumsey is sitting on the hammock...
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Jeannette Holt's Fifth Birthday in Oconto

Date: 05 08 1901
Description: Jeannette Holt is posing with her doll who is sitting in a wicker baby carriage. In the background are the stairs leading up to the Holt family home. Capti...
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W.A. Holt and Rev. J.R. Macartney escorting the Holt Children Home from Sunday School

Date: 1902
Description: W.A. Holt and Rev. John Robertson Macartney are escorting the Holt children home from Sunday School. Names from left to right: W.A. Holt, Alfred Holt, Jean...
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Children's Fourth of July Parade

Date: 1902
Description: A group of children are parading down the street on the Fourth of July. The drummer is leading the way. Two girls and one boy are pulling carts with a chil...
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Home Sweet Home Oconto

Date: 1897
Description: Front view of the two-story Queen Anne style home where Lucy and W.A. Holt lived together after their marriage in 1895. The address is 523 Main Street, Oco...
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Dog-Drawn Wagon with Children

Date: 04 1903
Description: Fred Phelps is driving a small wagon with a team of dogs on the wooden sidewalk in Oconto. Eleanor and Alfred Holt are the passengers. Looking at the camer...
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Miss McDonald

Date: 05 1904
Description: Miss McDonald, Jeannette Holt, and Alfred Holt are going fishing. Standing on the wooden sidewalk, they are holding long bamboo fishing poles over their sh...
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After: Drinking Fountain Put in by Oconto Women's Club

Date: 1916
Description: View of the new stone drinking fountain for horses at the junction of Chicago and Main Streets. Looking at the camera, two girls are standing to the right ...
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After: Drinking Fountain Put in by Oconto Women's Club

Date: 1916
Description: View of the new stone-hewn drinking fountain for horses at the junction of Chicago and Main Streets. A girl is running in the street toward the camera. Sma...
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Drafted Men

Date: 06 1918
Description: View of a parade. Caption reads: "Drafted men."
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After Arbutus

Date: 1916
Description: The group of people with sn automobile appears to be coming home after an outing, possibly to the Arbutus Mineral Spring in Oconto. W.A. Holt is opening th...
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Decoration Day

Date: 05 30 1912
Description: Three girls are decorating Lucy Rumsey Holt's electric car with American flags for Decoration Day, possibly for a parade. Jeannette Holt is on the left. Sp...
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Looking Down the Toboggan Slide

Date: 02 06 1914
Description: View of the backyard toboggan slide from the second floor of the Lucy and W.A. Holt home. Several people are in the snow at the bottom of the wooden slide.

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