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Alma Reinhardt Taylor

Date: 1915
Description: Several people next to a building in a wooded area. Four people are pushing a large wooden bar on a piece of equipment with a rope. Perhaps they are pullin...
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Fisherman's Shanty

Date: 1915
Description: Elevated view of a fisherman's shanty along the shoreline surrounded by rocks. At the shoreline is a man and numerous boats pulled ashore. Caption reads: "...
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Richmond and Dresden Ferry

Date: 1915
Description: View of the Richmond and Dresden ferry in the Kennebec River, about to land. A man and a horse with cart are on the ferry. Several canoes and a sailboat is...
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Ships at Ore Docks

Date: 1915
Description: View of several ships at the ore docks of Maryland Steel Company. Text on the ship on the left may read "Craigeab" (text is difficult to make out). The nam...
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Automobile Near Water

Date: 1915
Description: Three men in an automobile near what may be a flooded area, or possibly an overflowed pond or river. Barren trees stand in the pool's water.
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Men Driving near Bayou

Date: 1915
Description: Three men driving in an automobile past a pond or bayou. There appear to be two small boats on the shoreline, and trees are rising out of the water in the ...
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Baileys Harbor Lighthouse

Date: 1915
Description: Ferdinand Leonard (Fedy) Hotz, far left, sisters Helen, left, and Alice, sit with Thomas Toft on the rocky shore near the Baileys Harbor lighthouse. A rowb...
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Coast Guard Station

Date: 1915
Description: Six Coastguardsmen pose with an officer on the shore at the Coast Guard Station at Baileys Harbor. The men are identified as (left to right) Reinhart Hicke...
Book or Pamphlet

Lake Geneva Hotel

Date: 1915
Description: A view across water towards the Lake Geneva Hotel, also called Hotel Geneva. There are several boats and piers at the water's edge. Two men are boating in ...
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Building a Walkway on the Side of a Mountain

Date: 1915
Description: View across water towards Austrian soldiers working on the walkway along the side of a mountain close to the front in South Tyrol. Two men are in a boat at...
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Austrian Water Mine Sappers

Date: 1915
Description: Austrian sappers (military engineers) checking on underwater mines on a lake in South Tyrol on the Italian front.
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Crossing the Sava River

Date: 1915
Description: Hungarian hussars crossing the pontoon bridge over the Sava River in Serbia.
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The Clam Diggers

Date: 1915
Description: View towards a group digging for fresh water mussels in Archibald Lake. From left to right: a woman waist-deep in the water; a boy holding onto the side of...
Postcard

Camp Brooklyn

Date: 1915
Description: Text on front reads: "Camp Brooklyn, Lake Kegonsa." One man and two women are boating on Lake Kegonsa. Cottages, trees and docks line the shore.

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