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| Date: | 09 1947 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of people waiting for the ferry at the Gill's Rock landing in Door County. Caption reads: "Scene at Gill's Rock Landing, Door County... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Memorial to the Moravians who arrived in Eagle Bay in 1853. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | View of the fireplace in the interior of the Door County Museum. The text along the mantel reads: "The Past, The Present, and the Future Cannot Be Separate... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Door County Museum, featuring a display of a sculpted man in Native American dress. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | People on observation tower looking at Sturgeon Bay. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A view of some caves at Peninsula State Park. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A rear view of the Eagle Harbor Lighthouse at Peninsula State Park. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | A privately built and decorated chapel in the Norwegian style. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | The photographer's daughter, Helen Hotz Schmid, left, and granddaughter, Margaret Schmid, right, pose at water's edge with Nenn Steck Hotz at Toft Point ne... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | View from rocky shoreline of two men fishing from a small boat near Toft Point. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | A sailboat is moored to a wooden pier at North Bay. There is an old wooden building in the background across a marsh area. |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | This photograph of downed trees and branches is annotated, possibly by C.L. Harrington: "A fire hazard at this date Feb 28 '41. I have salvaged all or ab... |
| Date: | 07 04 1947 |
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| Description: | Group of people standing in the yard in front of the lighthouse. The verso has this annotation: "'Eagle Light' Lighthouse, Peninsula Park, Fish Creek, Wi... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View of a crowd gathered along a pier for Regatta Day. Boats are docked alongside the pier on the left. |
| Date: | 05 26 1947 |
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| Description: | View across beach towards three children squatting along the shoreline. A grove of trees is on a peninsula in the distance. |
| Date: | 05 26 1947 |
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| Description: | View of rock face along a trail. The rock has been cut, and there is graffiti on the rock. |
| Date: | 05 26 1947 |
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| Description: | View of Lake Michigan from top of the bluffs. Below the bluffs is a boat with two people in it on the lake. |
| Date: | 09 26 1945 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Peninsula State Park. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View from pier towards a young couple sitting in the back of a wooden boat tied to a pier in Peninsula State Park. Fish Creek Harbor is in the background, ... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Three boats, including the Sea Skipper, are tied to a wooden pier near the beach at Sister Bay. Another craft, the Flussheim of Sister Bay, i... |
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