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Ice Shanty on Sturgeon Bay

Date: 1898
Description: A boy dressed in knickers clears the ice in preparation to fish next to his family's ice shanty.
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Downtown Fish Creek

Date: 1910
Description: View from hill towards downtown Fish Creek, with the buildings and ground covered in snow. There is a road in the foreground leading off to the left. The b...
Postcard

Sturgeon Bay Harbor

Date: 1910
Description: A springtime harbor scene from Sturgeon Bay. Chunks of ice are floating on the surface of the water. Caption reads: "Harbor scene at springtime. Sturgeon B...
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Setting Sun

Date: 08 19 1964
Description: View from rocky shoreline of a sun setting through thin clouds over Lake Michigan. A pier juts out over pilings on the right, and a far shoreline is along ...
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Winter Morning at Sister Bay

Date: 1949
Description: Holiday card of the Sister Bay lakeshore. Three figures are on the shore. Two boathouses, a covered boat, a pier, and two upright boats are in the backgrou...
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Sleigh on Door County Harbor

Date: 02 1924
Description: A single horse pulls an enclosed sleigh across a frozen Door County harbor. Houses and a church are visible onshore.
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Europe Bay

Date: 1923
Description: Sunlight glints off the water under a threatening sky.
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Skating on Europe Bay

Date: 02 1924
Description: A man skates near the shore of Europe Bay.
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Sleighing on Ephraim Bay

Date: 02 1924
Description: Winter scene with a team of horses standing harnessed to an enclosed bobsled on snow- and ice-covered Ephraim Bay.
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Boathouse and Bathhouse

Date: 1924
Description: A small wood frame boathouse with a double door, and a bathhouse stand near the Hotz cottage on the shore near Fish Creek Beach. Both have rustic twig rail...
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Lake Michigan Ice

Date: 04 1922
Description: Large slabs and piles of ice line the rocky shoreline of Lake Michigan, possibly at Europe Bay.
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Man with Walking Stick

Date: 1923
Description: A man with a walking stick stands on the shore of frozen Europe Lake. The Hotz boat house and pier are in the background.
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Ice on Shore

Date: 04 1920
Description: Ice and driftwood, including large tree trunks, piled on the shore near Egg Harbor.
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Europe Bay in Winter

Date: 1925
Description: View from water of a man with a long walking stick posing near a wooden boathouse on Europe Bay. There is ice on the water near the shore.
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Iceboating

Date: 1920
Description: Three men work with an iceboat just offshore near Cottage Row Road. The sail and boom lie on the ice. There are boathouses and three windmills along the ...
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Iceboating at Egg Harbor

Date: 1920
Description: Three men work with an iceboat on Lake Michigan. The sail and boom lie on the ice.
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Newport Sawmill

Date: 1925
Description: Logs are stacked beside a sawmill in a winter landscape. The mill has a tall smokestack and stands near the shore.
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Abandoned Farm

Date: 1921
Description: View across snowy field of a shingled house, barn and other outbuildings standing empty near the shore of Lake Michigan at Newport Village.
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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Fish Creek

Date: 1915
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. ...

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