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Stumps in Dark Forest

Date: 08 20 1964
Description: View of a dark forest with birch trees and stumps in the foreground. The forest is near the west harbor of Washington Island.
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Outbuildings in a Wooded Area

Date: 10 18 1964
Description: Three outbuildings and a large tree near a country home owned by Mrs. Kay Curtis on Washington Island.
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Public Library

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Description: Exterior view of the Sturgeon Bay Public Library, which opened in 1913 after a Carnegie Grant. Above the arched main entrance a sign reads, "Free Library."
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Winter Scene

Date: 1918
Description: Ferdinand Hotz poses wearing snowshoes at his cottage in Fish Creek, now 4108 Main Street. There is a large snowdrift in the foreground.
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Europe Lake Boathouse

Date: 1921
Description: View from shoreline of a boy rowing a small boat with a girl seated aft as a woman watches them from the walkway to a boathouse. The walkway, with its rust...
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Newport

Date: 02 1924
Description: Three men pose on logs as a fourth walks toward them; there are axes and snowshoes on the ground. A large log barn, outhouse, and other buildings are in th...
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Beach Pine

Date: 1925
Description: View looking north on the shore of Europe bay. A picturesque old pine stands near the site of the old pier.
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Door County Birches

Date: 1912
Description: A scene of birch trees and low growing junipers on the Levi Vorous farm at Fish Creek.
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Cottage at Europe Lake

Date: 1922
Description: View of the rear of the Hotz cottage, showing a stone chimney which divides a dormer. There are large pine trees around the cottage.
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Egg Harbor Road

Date: 1924
Description: A rustic lattice fence encloses the Hotz family compound on Egg Harbor Road (Highway 42) outside of Fish Creek. There is deep snow on the ground and frost ...
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Door County Landscape

Date: 1920
Description: A well-dressed man identified as Uncle Rudolph Schenck takes in the view from a bluff overlooking the Fish Creek valley and harbor. There are houses and ou...
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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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Man on Snowshoes

Date: 1924
Description: A man poses on snowshoes, using a long walking stick in a wooded, snow-covered landscape.
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Toft Point

Date: 1942
Description: View from rocky shoreline of two men fishing from a small boat near Toft Point.
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Log Buildings

Date: 1926
Description: Two deteriorating log buildings stand in a stony meadow. There is a stone fence on the left and trees beyond.
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Gordon Cottage

Date: 1915
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...
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Peninsula State Park

Date: 1925
Description: A dirt road winds through Peninsula State Park.
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Lunch in the Woods North of Lake Europe

Date: 1919
Description: Three men enjoy a picnic; the man on the right smokes a cigar.
Postcard

Lover's Leap in Midwinter

Date: 1908
Description: Hand-colored postcard view of Lover's Leap in Sturgeon Bay during winter. The view is from the frozen lake looking toward a lighthouse on shore. Caption re...
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Sissy and Fedy

Date: 1913
Description: Two of the photographer's children, Margaret (Sissy), left, and Ferdinand Leonard (Fedy), right, on Weborg Point. Fish Creek Harbor is in the background; t...

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