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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: | Exterior view of the Door County Museum. Caption reads: "Door County Museum, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin." |
| 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: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Canal scene with a tugboat featured in the foreground and buildings on the opposite shoreline. Caption reads: "Scene on the Canal — Sturgeon Bay, Door Coun... |
| 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: | 1949 |
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| 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... |
| 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 1941 tourist map of Washington Island, Wisconsin, shows points of interest and places of business. Some information is shown pictorially. Rock, Hog, D... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | This 1943 map of Door County, Wisconsin, identifies the post offices and rural routes in the county. Highways and roads, cities and villages, and rural res... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Shows roads, railroads, schools, dairy plants, seaplane bases, wayside parks, and commercial/municipal fields. "Marathon Forms Map Service, Wisconsin repre... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | This tourist map of Door County, Wisconsin, lists the points of interest and tourist hotels, cabins and cottages in the area. Ferry schedules to Washington... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | This map of Sturgeon Bay shows section and quarter corners, ward divisions, government building locations, roads, and railroads. The map includes a legend ... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Sturgeon Bay in 1900. Sturgeon Bay Bridge spans the bay and several boats are on the water. A lighthouse sits on a small island in the bay... |
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