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| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Amateur photographer Lucy Rumsey Holt is rowing on Archibald Lake. Due to advances in mobile photography, Holt was able to take many of her photos out in t... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | View of a girl holding several frogs by their legs. She presumably caught the frogs in the nearby wetland. Her sun hat is shading part of her face. Archiba... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of five women, who are household employees, standing together in front of the original Cook’s Cabin, which burned down following a lightning... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A group of three women and a girl, household employees at Island Lodge, standing in front of Green Cottage. Built in 1901, this cottage is where the cook a... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | An action shot of two sawyers cutting a hollow hemlock log using a 2-person crosscut saw. They are sawing halfway through the log, to create an angle which... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Three men, and young David Rumsey are standing in the shade by the hollow hemlock log. The man on the right is holding an axe. Part of a series captioned: ... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | View towards David Rumsey sticking his head out of the left side of a large hemlock log to be used for the new pulpit. Wonder who the prankster was who dec... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Young David Rumsey is sitting on a log between his father and mother on a sunny day. Parents Wallace and Edna Rumsey are looking at the camera. There is a ... |
| Date: | 08 10 1913 |
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| Description: | It is a Wednesday in the middle of August. Standing in the woods on the Island, W.A. Holt is reading aloud, possibly scripture or a children's sermon. A gr... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | View across water towards a line of Holt children and others who are playing with a long log in Archibald Lake in front of the Bath House. Jeannette Holt i... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | A group of people are walking away down the railroad tracks in search of blueberries. A pine and hemlock forest is on either side of the tracks. Caption re... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | From left to right, Donald Holt and Donald Bridgeman, each holding a book, are standing in front of the Cupola on the Island. Caption reads: "Donald, Donal... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | W.A. Holt and his children are standing by the flag pole, with the American flag flying. Names from left to right: Alfred Holt, W.A. Holt, Donald Holt, Jea... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | A group of women and children are standing in front of the porch at Island Lodge. From left to right: Jeannette Holt smiling and holding a bundle of vines ... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | The boathouse is protecting the steam launch, called The Islander, from the elements. The man in the boathouse on the left is pulling a rope. A man ... |
| Date: | 08 14 1911 |
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| Description: | W.A. Holt (far left) and G.F. Loomis (far right) are holding up a string with the catch of the day. Standing between Holt and Loomis are: (left to right) N... |
| Date: | 08 16 1909 |
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| Description: | W.A. Holt is watching his children paint the cupola which was moved to the Island from the Lakewood school house. From left to right: Jeannette Holt is pai... |
| Date: | 08 1898 |
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| Description: | On the screened porch at Island Lodge, baby Alfred Holt is sitting in an infant-sized wooden rocking chair with sister Jeannette standing at his side. She ... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Jeannette Holt is standing and getting the tangles out of her brother Alfred Holt's hair in front of Island Lodge porch. Alfred is sitting in a small chair... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Smiling Uncle Wallace Rumsey is pushing a wooden wheelbarrow with Jeannette and Alfred Holt inside. They are on the dirt path leading to the swimming beach... |
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