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| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View from the Oconto River of the Holt Lumber Company. A man is standing on a log boom and guiding logs to the sawmill. Writing on the postcard reads: "Hol... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Looking at the camera, Eleanor Holt and three girlfriends are lying on their stomachs in a yard. Caption reads: "Margaret Doran, Eleanor H, Kathlene Doran,... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | After gathering birch bark, a group of children and an adult are returning to Island Lodge. One boy is pushing a wheelbarrow. Caption reads: "Birch bark ga... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Lucy Rumsey Holt driving a car. Her father Captain I.P. Rumsey, a Civil War veteran, is sitting on the passenger side. Men are standing in front of the Hol... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Grandfather Captain I.P. Rumsey, a Civil War veteran, is standing next to the wooden seesaw. Grandchildren Donald Holt (left) and Alfred Holt (right) are s... |
| Date: | 06 16 1911 |
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| Description: | A group of travelers are standing on a platform, with the train station in the background. Names from left to right: Philip Smith, Eleanor Holt, Jeannette ... |
| Date: | 05 1912 |
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| Description: | Sitting on a wooden sawhorse in the backyard, Eleanor Holt is giving a treat to Spotty, the family dog. |
| Date: | 05 30 1912 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 04 10 1913 |
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| Description: | Donald Holt and Fred Mooney are going fishing. Each boy is carrying a long bamboo fishing pole. Fred Mooney has the creel. Mrs. Mahoney is carrying a woode... |
| Date: | 04 10 1913 |
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| Description: | Donald Holt (left) and Fred Mooney (right) are posing with their fishing gear. |
| Date: | 06 1912 |
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| Description: | Three tennis players, holding their wooden racquets, are posing at the net on a grass court. Names from left to right: Jeannette Holt, Jean Fergeson, and E... |
| Date: | 07 24 1913 |
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| Description: | The entire Holt family, except photographer Lucy Rumsey Holt, is squeezing into the car. Lucy Rumsey Holt was the principal driver of this electric car. Na... |
| Date: | 02 06 1914 |
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| Description: | A group of children and adults is on the wooden toboggan slide in the backyard of the Lucy and W.A. Holt home. One person on the top platform is holding a ... |
| Date: | 02 06 1914 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 04 09 1911 |
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| Description: | Lucy Rumsey Holt is driving her new electric car with her husband, W.A. Holt, who is sitting in the passenger seat. |
| Date: | 12 12 1918 |
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| Description: | Title reads: "The Two Dons" for Donald Holt and Donald DeWitt. Donald Holt is standing on the left. He and another boy are carrying the box filled with woo... |
| Date: | 11 11 1918 |
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| Description: | The Armistice Day parade is heading down Main Street. This float shows German Kaiser Wilhelm II's coffin. A group of joyful men and woman are riding on the... |
| Date: | 05 16 1919 |
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| Description: | View across lawn towards the parade down Main Street, celebrating the return of the 32nd Infantry Division, Company M after WWI. A car is in the parade, fo... |
| Date: | 04 10 1922 |
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| Description: | Two women are walking through floodwaters from the Oconto River. A horse-drawn carriage with its wheels halfway underwater is in the background near the Oc... |
| Date: | 04 13 1922 |
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| Description: | The car is plowing through flood waters on Main Street. Commercial buildings and telephone poles are in the background. |
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