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Ice Fishing on Green Bay

Date: 1918
Description: Two men holding large fish pose near an ice fishing shanty off of Fish Creek. Another man stands behind them. There is man on an iceboat in the left backgr...
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Ice Fishing on Green Bay

Date: 1918
Description: Four men, three holding large fish, pose near an ice fishing shanty off of Fish Creek. Some of their gear is on the ice.
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Girl with Dog

Date: 1921
Description: The photographer's daughter Margaret poses with a dachshund on the path in front of the Hotz family cottage on Europe Lake. Two flights of steps on a steep...
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Sleigh on Door County Harbor

Date: 02 1924
Description: A single horse pulls an enclosed sleigh across a frozen Door County harbor. Houses and a church are visible onshore.
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Locked Antlers

Date: 02 1924
Description: Two dead bucks with locked antlers are nearly buried in snow. The heads were mounted and hung in the Hotz family Europe Lake cottage until they were stolen...
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Church in Winter

Date: 02 1924
Description: View from behind of two horses (probably pulling a sleigh) on a snowy road, now Highway 42, near Zion Lutheran Church in Sister Bay. The horse on the left ...
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Main Street in Winter

Date: 02 1924
Description: Three men stand behind a horse-drawn enclosed sleigh in front of the Lundberg Store on Fish Creek's Main Street. There is a second sleigh and horse in the ...
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Man and Dog

Date: 1925
Description: Ferdinand Leonard (Fedy) Hotz poses holding a somewhat uncooperative dog in a stand of birch and other trees.
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Man and Dog

Date: 1923
Description: A well-dressed man poses holding a German short-haired pointer on a leash near the outlet of the Fish Creek into the harbor.
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Egg Harbor

Date: 1925
Description: View from low hill of a man standing as he is driving a team and wagon up Egg Harbor Road, traveling north. An automobile is parked in the foreground along...
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Dachshund

Date: 1922
Description: A dachshund, a Hotz family pet, poses near the cottage at Europe Lake. A boy looks on; two others rest against the rustic railing along the side of the cot...
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Group at Europe Lake

Date: 1922
Description: A group poses on the steps leading from the lake path to the porch of the Hotz cottage at Europe Lake. The photographer's daughter, Margaret Hotz, third fr...
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Hotz Home

Date: 1910
Description: Three-quarter view of the Hotz home at 1072 Sheridan Road in winter. There is a large barn behind the house; a dog is partially visible behind a tree.
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Young Man and Dog

Date: 1910
Description: A young man and a dog pose on an improvised toboggan run next to the Hotz residence. The photograph was taken from an upper story window; a porch roof is i...
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Hotz Residence

Date: 1910
Description: Mrs. Ferdinand (Clothilde) Hotz poses with two of her daughters in front of their house. A dog walks toward them from the right. The large shingle-style ho...
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Sledding

Date: 1910
Description: Four children pose in the snow with their sleds and a dachshund. There is a rustic bridge in the background and a railing in the left foreground.
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Children Sledding

Date: 1910
Description: The photographer's four children pose with their sleds near Sheridan Road. There is a bridge over a ravine in the background and a blurred image of a dog i...
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Sleighing

Date: 02 1924
Description: A horse and enclosed sleigh pause on Egg Harbor Road.
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Sleighing on Ephraim Bay

Date: 02 1924
Description: Winter scene with a team of horses standing harnessed to an enclosed bobsled on snow- and ice-covered Ephraim Bay.
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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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