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| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | A woman wearing a long skirt and blouse is standing and holding baby Eleanor Holt in her arms while standing on the front porch of Island Lodge on Archibal... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | A group of young men and women are visiting McCauslin Brook. Standing on the tree trunk, W.A. Holt is holding a paper lantern. The woman, standing next to ... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | The American flag, twisted around the wooden pole on the Island, is the focal point this picture. Lucy and W.A. Holt with their children are standing to th... |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Juliet Stroh (right) has her mouth on the narrow end of the Hello-phone, a.k.a megaphone. At the same time, Donald Holt (left) is sticking his arms and fac... |
| Date: | 08 1904 |
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| Description: | The four Holt children are helping their father haul brush. Names from left to right: W.A. Holt, Donald Holt, Eleanor Holt, Jeannette Holt, and Alfred Holt... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A portrait of four young women standing close together before going hiking. Judging by their body language, these young women appear to be pals. They all a... |
| Date: | 08 1905 |
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| Description: | Grandfather I.P. Rumsey is teaching grandson Alfred Holt how to shoot a gun on the shore of Archibald Lake. Jeannette Holt and the Stroh girls are watching... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | View across water towards members of the Reading Circle, including one woman and six children. The "H," made of birch branches, marks the location as being... |
| Date: | 09 1906 |
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| Description: | Standing in the center of the Islander steam launch on Archibald Lake, W.A. Holt is wearing a sea captain's hat. Friends and family are going with W... |
| Date: | 09 03 1917 |
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| Description: | W.A. Holt is standing next to his broken down car in the woods. Three men on the left are examining the wheel of the car. One man is holding a crowbar. On ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Sitting close together on the floor of the Island Lodge porch, a young man and young woman are hiding their faces from the camera with a hat or towel. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | As a stunt, a man is dressed up as a big baby and sitting in a wash tub. He is looking at the camera while wearing a bonnet, and holding a glass bottle wit... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A man is dressed up as a big baby and is sitting in a wicker baby carriage. He is drinking from a glass bottle. A woman wearing round eyeglasses is standin... |
| Date: | 07 1919 |
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| Description: | A man and woman are holding up a man who is balancing above them on their hands. He is holding his hands to his mouth. Tall trees are in the background. Pa... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | From left to right: Eleanor Gibson, {unknown}, and Helen Macartney are sitting together on a large fallen tree trunk partially submerged in Archibald Lake.... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Elevated view through trees towards a man preparing to dive or jump off a wooden diving board, mounted on a barge, into Archibald Lake. Waiting his turn, a... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Wearing a wide brimmed hat, Jim Wright has his mouth wide open, and is looking at the palm of his left hand and pointing in the air with his right hand. Be... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | With her face partially shaded by a hat, Jeannette Holt is holding a cast iron frying pan sideways to shade the camera as a young man, sitting at the base ... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | With legs extended, Lowell Hoxie is sitting up high in a tree, supported on two branches as if he were in a hammock. Below is a young man, sitting on the g... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | A group of Holts and Garrisons are roasting corn around a smoking campfire on the Island, with Archibald Lake in the background. W.A. Holt is on the far le... |
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