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Washington Island

Date: 1925
Description: Washington Island, including field and fence, with buildings, automobiles, and a large ship in the distance.
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Thordarson Estate

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Description: View across lawn or field of numerous buildings on Chester Thordarson's estate. There are greenhouses on the left.
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Farm on Washington Island

Date: 07 1929
Description: View of a farm taken from a field. Barn, farmhouse, and a windmill are visible behind trees, perhaps an orchard.
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Apple Tree

Date: 10 18 1964
Description: Close-up of an apple on an apple tree in the yard of Mrs. Kay Curtis.
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Group in Front of Uncle Herman's House

Date: 08 02 1903
Description: Group posed on the lawn of Uncle Herman's house. Three women are seated on a platform swing while others are sitting on the lawn and the porch. Harry Danko...
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Cherry Blossom Time

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Description: Cherry trees stand in rows in an orchard during Cherry Blossom Time.
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Cherry Picking

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Description: Men and boys stand between rows of trees, picking cherries. Some of them are holding buckets and standing on ladders.
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Cherry Picking

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Description: Girls pick cherries in an orchard. Some hold buckets and sit on ladders.
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Picking Cherries in Door County

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Description: Elevated view of a boy holding a pail of cherries. Another filled pail rests on the ground in a Door County orchard.
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Cherry Picking in Door County

Date: 1967
Description: A man pours a large pot of freshly picked cherries into an evaporated milk carton. The carton rests on a sign reading, "Cherries, Pick Your Own." Cherry tr...
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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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Spring Blossoms

Date: 1925
Description: Fruit trees are blooming in the tall grass in the yard of a wood frame farmhouse. Two barrels are standing by the front porch.
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Spring Blossoms

Date: 1925
Description: Alice Hotz Apfelbach, right, and her younger sister Margaret Hotz pose in front of a picket fence along a dirt lane which is now Highway 42. Behind the fe...
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Apfelbach Summer Home

Date: 1915
Description: Birch and other trees frame the view of a distant house and barn with poplars behind, lining the road (now Highway 42) at Fish Creek.
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Orchard in Winter

Date: 02 1924
Description: Elevated view of fruit trees, farm buildings, houses, and a windmill with pump house.
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Orchard in Winter

Date: 02 1924
Description: Elevated view of rows of fruit trees standing near an apple storage barn with a stone foundation and several dormers. The Green Bay is visible in the back...
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Spring

Date: 05 1916
Description: A cow lies along the road outside a fence; two calves lie behind the fence under blooming cherry trees. The road is identified as Sturgeon Bay Road, now Hi...
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Cow Along Road

Date: 1916
Description: A cow, lying outside the fence, observes a car stopped on Sturgeon Bay Road (now Highway 42). Cherry trees bloom inside the fence.
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Cows in Spring

Date: 1916
Description: A cow lies along the road outside a fence; two calves lie behind the fence under blooming cherry trees. The road is identified as Sturgeon Bay Road, now Hi...
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Calves in Orchard

Date: 1916
Description: Two calves lying under blooming cherry trees in a Door County orchard.

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