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Pier at North Bay

Date: 1920
Description: View from lawn of small boats which have been pulled onto the shore alongside a pier at North Bay. White cedars (arbor vitae) grow along the pier and on sh...
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Pier and Warehouse

Date: 1920
Description: View from hill looking down at a wood framed warehouse building on a pier with boats docked alongside. Near the warehouse are fish net drying reels. Wooded...
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Door County Landscape

Date: 1920
Description: A well-dressed man identified as Uncle Rudolph Schenck takes in the view from a bluff overlooking the Fish Creek valley and harbor. There are houses and ou...
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Car Along Country Road

Date: 1920
Description: A car is parked along a narrow road that runs through a stand of birch and conifer trees. There appears to be a man standing near the fence on the left.
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Newport House

Date: 1920
Description: Clothes hang on the line behind a large wood frame house. The roof is in need of repair. The photographer's wife, Clothilde, holds a dachsund in a car par...
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Stone Garage and Tower

Date: 1920
Description: View of the stone garage and tower at the Hotz Fish Creek compound on Egg Harbor Road, now Highway 42. There is a rustic lattice fence and gate along the r...
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Wetlands

Date: 1920
Description: Trees are reflected in shallow water in the wetlands in Fish Creek Valley near the Thorp and Vorous farms in spring. The tower and other buildings of the H...
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Hotz Cottage

Date: 1920
Description: One of the Hotz Fish Creek cottage stands covered with snow among birch and evergreen trees.
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Fish Creek Cottage

Date: 1920
Description: The Hotz cottage is seen from the base of the bluff. Snow covers the birch and conifer trees.
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Wrecked Boat in Winter

Date: 1920
Description: An unidentified man poses near a wrecked boat. A log house with two lean-to additions is behind him and there is a smaller log building on the left. Snow c...
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Iceboating

Date: 1920
Description: Three men work with an iceboat just offshore near Cottage Row Road. The sail and boom lie on the ice. There are boathouses and three windmills along the ...
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Chambers Island Lighthouse

Date: 1920
Description: View from water of a man with a beard standing on a pier near a small boathouse. In the background is a lighthouse with keeper's house and outbuilding.
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Iceboating at Egg Harbor

Date: 1920
Description: Three men work with an iceboat on Lake Michigan. The sail and boom lie on the ice.
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Farm Scene

Date: 1920
Description: Cows stand in shallow water in a rolling pasture in what is now Peninsula State Park. There is an old log building in the background.
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Rowboat

Date: 1920
Description: A rowboat is moored alongside the rustic boardwalk to the boathouse at the Hotz family cottage at Europe Lake.
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Ferdinand Hotz

Date: 1920
Description: Ferdinand Hotz poses in Bavarian dress, holding a carved walking stick, on the porch of his cottage on Europe Lake. He wears a felt hat with braid and a la...
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Field of Flowers

Date: 1920
Description: A car, left, is parked beside a field of blooming daisies. There is an old log cabin in the background.
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Picnic in the Woods

Date: 1920
Description: Three women and a small boy enjoy a picnic in a clearing near Cana Island. A dog poses in the foreground.
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Door County Farmstead

Date: 1920
Description: A car is parked along a narrow dirt road with a house, barn and outbuildings in the background. A split-rail fence lines the left side of the road. There i...
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Fish Creek Harbor

Date: 1920
Description: Several boats are moored in the protected harbor. An old warehouse stands on a pier. A tall bluff and rock cliff dominates the opposite shoreline.

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