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A Snowy West Washington Avenue

Date: 1924
Description: Winter scene of a deeply snow-covered West Washington Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin. In the background is the Wisconsin State Capitol building.
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Twenty-First Street

Date: 1924
Description: Near Chestnut Street. View looking down a wet and icy sidewalk with melting snowbanks. Houses line the street.
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Man Loading Silage from Trench Silo on Wagon

Date: 1924
Description: View looking down snow-covered slope towards a horse attached to a small sleigh standing in a trench. At the back of the trench a man is pitching silage fr...
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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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Road in Winter

Date: 1924
Description: Winter scene with a snow-covered road bordered by stone walls and pillars on Cottage Row Road. Birches and evergreens line the road.
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Bridge Construction

Date: 1924
Description: Winter view of new poured concrete bridge supports and scaffolding in a wooded ravine along Sheridan Road.
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Egg Harbor Road

Date: 1924
Description: A rustic lattice fence encloses the Hotz family compound on Egg Harbor Road (Highway 42) outside of Fish Creek. There is deep snow on the ground and frost ...
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Boathouse and Bathhouse

Date: 1924
Description: A small wood frame boathouse with a double door, and a bathhouse stand near the Hotz cottage on the shore near Fish Creek Beach. Both have rustic twig rail...
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Fish Creek Corner in Winter

Date: 1924
Description: View looking southeast at the corner of Main (Egg Harbor Road) and Spruce Streets. Snow is on the ground. A neoclassical house (the Noble house) with front...
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Man on Snowshoes

Date: 1924
Description: A man poses on snowshoes, using a long walking stick in a wooded, snow-covered landscape.
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Snowshoeing

Date: 1924
Description: A man, likely Ferdinand Hotz, on short snowshoes carrying a long walking stick and his coat. A camera case and pair of ice skates hang from straps around h...
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Locked Antlers

Date: 1924
Description: Two men hold the heads of a pair of whitetail bucks with locked antlers. There is a boy and a dog in the background near a rock outcropping and snow is on ...
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Auto Wash Building

Date: 1924
Description: View up ramp towards the "Auto Wash" entrance door of a brick building using the Air-lec pneumatic door opening system invented by Louis Schoelkopf.
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Frederick J. Turner

Date: 1924
Description: Outdoor portrait of Frederick J. Turner wearing an overcoat and standing in the snow. Location is 7 Phillips Place, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Tobogganing

Date: 1924
Description: Herbert Paul Brumder is pulling his two sons, Herbert Edmund, center, and Philip George, left, on a toboggan in a snowy, rolling landscape. The two boys ar...
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Sledding

Date: 1924
Description: Two children, possibly Barbara, left, and Philip Brumder posing with a sled on the ice of Pine Lake. The children are dressed in similar outfits of stockin...

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