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Thordarson Library with Fireplace

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Description: Interior view of the Thordarson library featuring a massive fireplace with two men posing on either side of it. The building is of stone, with arched windo...
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Thordarson Estate

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Description: Hand-colored view of the Thordarson estate including the boathouse and a stone-paved path with benches.
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First Girls Party on Beach

Date: 09 07 1927
Description: Women employees of Thordarson? in bathing suits on the beach during the First Girls Party to Rock Island.
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Fish Creek

Date: 1918
Description: Winter scene looking east on Main Street (Highway 42), with wooden commercial buildings on both sides of the street. The building on the left, 4168 Main St...
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Hotz Cottage

Date: 1918
Description: The Hotz cottage, garage, and stone tower are seen through a stand of birch trees from the base of the bluff in Fish Creek. There is snow on the ground.
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Ferdinand Hotz

Date: 1918
Description: Ferdinand Hotz poses on snowshoes at the base of a bluff. The Hotz cottage complex, built in 1912-3, is seen atop the bluff. The complex included three co...
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Ice Fishing on Green Bay

Date: 1918
Description: Two men holding large fish pose near an ice fishing shanty off of Fish Creek. Another man stands behind them. There is man on an iceboat in the left backgr...
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Ice Fishing on Green Bay

Date: 1918
Description: Four men, three holding large fish, pose near an ice fishing shanty off of Fish Creek. Some of their gear is on the ice.
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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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Porch in the Woods

Date: 1921
Description: The porch of the Hotz cottage at Europe Lake, furnished with a rustic table, chairs and benches; the table has been set for a meal. The cottage and porch a...
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Boathouse at Europe Lake

Date: 1921
Description: A walkway with rustic railing leads to the Hotz family boathouse on Europe Lake. A well-worn path leads downhill to the water.
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Garage at Europe Lake

Date: 1921
Description: A vertical log-sided garage with lean-to porch stands on the side of a hill in the woods. There is a rustic table on the porch. This building was located ...
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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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Garage at Europe Lake

Date: 1921
Description: The garage, with vertical log siding, near the Hotz family cottage at Europe Lake. There is a pump on the front porch, and a bell with a rope on the peak o...
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Mink River

Date: 1921
Description: A view of the Mink River estuary with marsh grasses in the foreground.
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Europe Lake Cottage

Date: 1921
Description: The lake side of the Hotz cottage on Europe Lake, showing the porch with rustic lattice work, and steps. A central dormer is flanked by chimneys.
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Winter Landscape

Date: 1924
Description: Elevated view of a Door County landscape in winter with snow on the ground, taken from the Hotz Fish Creek cottage. Birch trees and conifers are in the for...
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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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Locked Antlers

Date: 02 1924
Description: Two dead bucks with locked antlers are nearly buried in snow. The heads were mounted and hung in the Hotz family Europe Lake cottage until they were stolen...
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Mr. Kincaid on Stairs

Date: 02 1924
Description: The caretaker, carrying a lantern, poses on stairs leading up from the log outhouse at the Hotz Europe Lake compound. There is hoar frost on the trees and ...

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