Date: | 1916 |
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Description: | Jeannette Holt is sitting and playing the organ during a hymn sing on the Island. Family and friends are gathered around her. Names from left to right: Mar... |
Date: | 1916 |
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Description: | A group of men are building the wood floor for the tented campsite on the Island. In the background, a group of women and children are watching constructio... |
Date: | 1916 |
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Description: | View from hill looking towards three men on the roof while building The Retreat. There is a tall ladder against a tree on the right. Archibald Lake is in ... |
Date: | 1916 |
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Description: | Arch McClure, on the left, is Holding a book and standing behind the home-made wooden podium that is decorated with flowers. A group of musicians is playin... |
Date: | 1916 |
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Description: | W.A. Holt is standing a field holding onto a fruit tree. |
Date: | 1916 |
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Description: | Group portrait of four household employees posing in front of the door of a cabin. |
Date: | 1916 |
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Description: | A group of men are standing in front of the Holt family home on Main Street. Several of the men are holding fishing poles, and they appear ready to go on a... |
Date: | 02 17 1917 |
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Description: | Four horses are pulling the flat bed wagon loaded with ice bricks. One of the men is holding the reins to the horses, and the other man is standing with hi... |
Date: | 07 1917 |
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Description: | During Word War I, a group of soldiers training at Fort Sheridan visited the home of W.A. Holt's parents. The Holt family entertained the soldiers. Lillian... |
Date: | 1917 |
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Description: | Robert Thurston is canoeing on Archibald Lake amidst some shoreline grasses. The Ark cottage on the Island is in the background on the right. |
Date: | 1917 |
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Description: | View from hill looking across the eastern half of Archibald Lake. In the distance is the narrow passageway connecting the east and west sides of the lake. ... |
Date: | 07 1917 |
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Description: | A woman is napping in the hammock on the screened porch at Island Lodge. Her bag and possibly a camera are on the floor near her. Caption reads: "July 30 -... |
Date: | 08 1917 |
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Description: | Sitting in front of the bath house, bathers are dangling their feet in Archibald Lake. A young man is sunbathing on the roof. A woman is standing in the ba... |
Date: | 1918 |
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Description: | Wearing his military uniform, Phil Smith is doffing his hat to the photographer. Mrs. Smith, with hands interlaced, is standing next to him. A large tree i... |
Date: | 06 15 1918 |
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Description: | Donald Holt, who is 16 years old, is wearing his first long trousers, marking the transition from boyhood to manhood. He is taking a strawberry that Mrs. W... |
Date: | 1918 |
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Description: | View of a baseball game on the Island. Juliet Rumsey Stroh (?) is pitching. W.A. Holt is standing by second base. Alfred Holt is standing near third base. |
Date: | 1918 |
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Description: | Standing on the pier, Jeannette Holt is doing laundry by hand, using the washboard in an iron bucket that is sitting on the diving board. Archibald Lake an... |
Date: | 09 10 1918 |
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Description: | It appears that a set of logs was just placed on the dirt road between an automobile and a horse-drawn carriage, possibly to fix a rut. While squatting by ... |
Date: | 10 1918 |
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Description: | View down road towards a car stopped next to the lone tree in the middle of the road. An eight-foot fence surrounds and protects this tall tree. |
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