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U.S. Lighthouse in Fish Creek

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Description: U.S. Lighthouse with people standing in the yard next to it. Caption reads: "U. S. Lighthouse, Fish Creek Wis."
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Aunt Helen and Mrs. Quill

Date: 11 12 1899
Description: Aunt Helen and Mrs. Quill stand in front of a backdrop near a fence. They are both wearing military style uniforms including hats. The woman on the right a...
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Aunt Helen and Mrs. Quill

Date: 11 12 1899
Description: Aunt Helen and Mrs. Quill stand shoulder to shoulder in front of a backdrop. They are both wearing military style uniforms including hats.
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Sylvester with Slingshot

Date: 01 01 1902
Description: Syl standing in front of a fence holding a slingshot.
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Dankoler with Three Men

Date: 11 07 1909
Description: Harry E. Dankoler, E.A. Corneille, D.S. Crandall, and Joe Leighton standing on a rocky area of D.S. Crandall's property near a fence.
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Syl with Aunt Helen near Door

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Description: Aunt Helen and Syl stand bundled up against the cold just outside a door to a house with a snow-covered yard behind them.
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Spring Blossoms

Date: 1925
Description: Alice Hotz Apfelbach, right, and her younger sister Margaret Hotz pose in front of a picket fence along a dirt lane which is now Highway 42. Behind the fe...
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Group at Europe Lake

Date: 1922
Description: A group poses on the steps leading from the lake path to the porch of the Hotz cottage at Europe Lake. The photographer's daughter, Margaret Hotz, third fr...
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Car Along Country Road

Date: 1920
Description: A car is parked along a narrow road that runs through a stand of birch and conifer trees. There appears to be a man standing near the fence on the left.
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Packing Cherries

Date: 07 23 1924
Description: A group of men and women pack cherries on a bench made of planks and sawhorses. Fruit crates are stacked on the ground and in the back of a nearby truck. O...
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Mrs. Ch. Harris

Date: 1925
Description: A woman stands at the gate beside a wood frame house, possibly at Newport. The downspout on the house drains into a rain barrel. There are outbuildings beh...
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Mrs. Ch. Harris

Date: 1925
Description: A woman stands by the gate beside a wooden house, possibly at Newport. The house's downspout drains into a rain barrel. Lake Michigan is in the background...
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Locked Antlers

Date: 02 1924
Description: Two men examine the heads of two whitetailed bucks with locked antlers. A dog stands alongside one of the men.
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Locked Antlers

Date: 1924
Description: Two men hold the heads of a pair of whitetail bucks with locked antlers. There is a boy and a dog in the background near a rock outcropping and snow is on ...
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Farmstead

Date: 1912
Description: View down dirt road leading to the Carlson farm at Nelson Bay in Peninsula State Park. A man stands in the background among the farm buildings near a parke...
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Clothilde Hotz

Date: 1915
Description: The photographer's wife poses in a grove of birch trees. There are low growing junipers under the trees and a fence in the background.
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Wrecked Boat in Winter

Date: 1920
Description: An unidentified man poses near a wrecked boat. A log house with two lean-to additions is behind him and there is a smaller log building on the left. Snow c...
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Chambers Island Lighthouse

Date: 1920
Description: View from water of a man with a beard standing on a pier near a small boathouse. In the background is a lighthouse with keeper's house and outbuilding.
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Tree Planting Crew

Date: 05 1911
Description: A pickup truck carrying a crew of 12 men is parked between two automobiles in front of a barn. The truck is identified as "Bingham & Lawrence Fruit and Nur...
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Birch Woods

Date: 1922
Description: A woman and girl pose near a wooden fence that separates a field from a stand of birch trees.

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