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Family Camping

Date: 1890
Description: A family campsite with a woman and three boys standing next to a canvass wall tent. In front of the tent is a campfire with pots, and a log with a hatchet ...
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Group Posing on Ice Skates

Date: 1901
Description: Winter scene with four women, a man and a child, all well-dressed, posing on the ice wearing ice skates. Other skaters are behind them. Caption reads: "Syl...
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Laurie Residence, Sturgeon Bay , Wisconsin

Date: 1890
Description: The Laurie residence, home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Laurie, occupied by them since 1870. A group of people are posing in the grass in the foreground.
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Syl and Pa Lighting Fireworks

Date: 07 04 1901
Description: Syl and Pa, both wearing hats, sit on a lawn lighting fireworks. There is a tent or open-sided awning behind them among trees.
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Door County Apple Orchard

Date: 08 19 1895
Description: The family of Joseph Zettel sits under a flowering apple tree. The family grows the Duchess of Oldenburg apple variety in their orchard three miles north o...
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Newport House

Date: 1920
Description: Clothes hang on the line behind a large wood frame house. The roof is in need of repair. The photographer's wife, Clothilde, holds a dachsund in a car par...
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Picking Cherries

Date: 07 15 1919
Description: The photographer's son Fedy (Ferdinand Leonard Hotz), in hat, and daughters pick cherries at the family orchard. Two of his daughters are standing on orcha...
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Picking Cherries

Date: 07 15 1919
Description: The photographer's wife, Clothilde, center, and two of his daughters, on the right, pick cherries with others in the family's orchard. They have small pail...
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Skiers

Date: 01 1928
Description: Winter scene with Ferdinand Hotz, holding a cigarette, posing on skis. His wife, Clothilde, stands on the left with a long walking stick; daughter Helen (L...
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Grounded Sailboat

Date: 1912
Description: The photographer's daughters, from left, Helen, Alice, Margaret and son Ferdinand Leonard at the wheel, pose on a two-masted boat, the Martha G., wh...
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Family Along Country Road

Date: 1910
Description: The photographer's wife, Clothilde, sits, (right) in front of a rock with an unidentified woman, as daughters Alice, standing, and Helen pose on top of the...
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Hotz Children on Shore

Date: 1915
Description: The photographer's children pose on the shore at Fish Creek Point. They are, from left, Ferdinand Leonard (Fedy), Alice, Margaret (Sissy), and Helen, who p...
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Group on Shore

Date: 1915
Description: Thomas Toft, left, on the rocky shore of Moonlight Bay with the photographer's children, from left, Helen, Alice, Ferdinand Leonard, and Margaret. Alice ho...
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Family Bike Ride

Date: 1967
Description: View from behind of a family of three biking down a paved road in Peninsula State Park. The child is riding a tandem bicycle with the father.
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Family Riding Bikes

Date: 1967
Description: A family of three is biking down a paved road in Peninsula State Park. The child is riding a tandem bike with the father.
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Tandem Bicycle Ride

Date: 1967
Description: Close-up view of a father riding a tandem bike with his child.
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Riding Bikes at Peninsula State Park

Date: 1967
Description: A family of three is biking down a paved road in Peninsula State Park. The child is riding a tandem bike with her father.
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Group Walking Along the Shoreline of Lake Michigan

Date: 
Description: View down slope towards a family walking along the shore of Lake Michigan at Gordon Lodge.
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Rio Family Harvesting Cherries

Date: 1963
Description: Migrant workers from Mexico, Joe Rio, his wife, and six of their eleven children, pose for a photo during a cherry harvest.

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