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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

Date: 1920
Description: View along shoreline towards a rustic foot bridge which crosses the mouth of Fish Creek, which separates the village of Fish Creek from Peninsula State Par...
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Cana Island Lighthouse

Date: 1920
Description: The Cana Island Lighthouse and keeper's house as seen across the rocky shoreline.

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