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| Date: | 01 1928 |
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| Description: | Two men use a crosscut saw to cut a hemlock log while a third watches. A splitting maul and a splitting wedge rest on a tree stump in the foreground. Smoke... |
| Date: | 01 1928 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 07 1923 |
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| Description: | A large group stands on the pier at Fish Creek as a boat leaves. A barn-like warehouse stands on the pier; houses, boathouses, and outbuildings are visible... |
| Date: | 07 1923 |
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| Description: | Passengers lean on the railing of a boat at a dock as a well-dressed crowd waits below. There are two cars parked nearby. Fishing nets dry on net rollers a... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A boat with an outboard motor is tied to the rustic log pier; a second boat is overturned on an extension of the pier. There is a fish net hanging over the... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | The Baileys Harbor Coast Guard Life Saving Station viewed from between a fishing boat and a pier warehouse. The station's pier extends into the harbor and ... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Logs are stacked beside a sawmill in a winter landscape. The mill has a tall smokestack and stands near the shore. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the photographer's son, Ferdinand Leonard (Fedy) sitting on the bluff overlooking Fish Creek Harbor. The old warehouses are seen on the pi... |
| Date: | 05 25 1919 |
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| Description: | The photographer's wife Clothilde admires the view of the Gibraltar Orchard in full bloom. The is a pile of lumber on the left; stones are piled under tree... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View from the water of Washington Harbor on Washington Island. There are boats moored and warehouses along the pier. Fishing nets dry on racks on the shore... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Fish Creek Harbor as a boat approaches the pier and warehouse. In the foreground are houses with outbuildings, gardens and a small orchard... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Winter scene from Egg Harbor Road (Highway 42) in Fish Creek looking north toward frozen Fish Creek Harbor with the bluffs in Peninsula State Park beyond. ... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | View of Fish Creek from Weborg's Point in Peninsula State Park. The Fish Creek dock with barnlike warehouse is in center right. Behind the dock is the two-... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | The lime kiln, at right, at Toft Point. Crushed limestone from the nearby quarry was heated in the kiln to make whitewash. Evergreen trees and birches form... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | This map of Door County, Wisconsin, from the early 20th century shows roads, schools, churches, creameries and cheese factories, orchards, docks, quarries,... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Color photographic postcard view of the Cana Island U.S. Lighthouse surrounded by a green lawn. There is a hand pump near the building. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Color enhanced postcard view of fisherman's shacks on the outlet of Logan's creek on the shore of Lake Michigan. |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | View towards a fishing dock on an outlet along the shoreline of Lake Michigan. |
| Date: | 01 06 1958 |
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| Description: | Ahnapee & Western Railway Bridge construction. View is from Highway Bridge. There are ships on the right side beyond the bridge. The forested shoreline cur... |
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| Description: | Aerial view of harbors and bridge. Farm fields are on either side of the bridge. The city of Sturgeon Bay is in the distance. There are docks along the sho... |
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