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A Lancaster Home

Date: 1865
Description: Stereograph elevated view of a home in Lancaster.
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Farwell Hotel

Date: 1865
Description: Stereograph view looking downhill towards the three-story Farwell Hotel in Lancaster.
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Lancaster Congregational Church

Date: 1865
Description: Stereograph view looking downhill towards Lancaster, with the Congregational Church to the right.
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Polperro House

Date: 1940
Description: A restored Cornish miner's house, called Polperro, on Shake Rag Street. The house was temporarily covered with siding, but after restoration the siding was...
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Big Manitou Falls, Pattison State Park

Date: 1890
Description: Stereograph of Big Manitou Falls on the Black River. This waterfall reportedly was called "Gitchee Monido" by the Ojibwa, which means "Falls of the Great S...
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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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Picnicking near Lake Superior

Date: 1914
Description: Four individuals, sitting in the shade near a table during a picnic on Madeline Island. Includes Elizabeth Nesbet (Mrs. S.C. Marty, Sr.), Gertrude Capser (...
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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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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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Mink River

Date: 1921
Description: A view of the Mink River estuary with marsh grasses in the foreground.
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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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Fish Creek Harbor

Date: 1925
Description: Elevated view of Fish Creek from the east; the bluff rises on the left, the harbor is on the right. The cottage in the foreground with pergola and lattice ...
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Door County

Date: 1925
Description: Elevated view of Fish Creek from the east. The photographer's first Fish Creek cottage, with a standing seam metal roof, is in the foreground; in the yard ...
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Nelson Bay and Point

Date: 1925
Description: Rocky shoreline at Nelson Point, now in Peninsula State Park.
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Man and Dog

Date: 1923
Description: A well-dressed man poses holding a German short-haired pointer on a leash near the outlet of the Fish Creek into the harbor.
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Nelson Point

Date: 1923
Description: A small cottage is barely visible through the trees on the rocky shore at Nelson Point, now part of Peninsula State Park.

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