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| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | A group of children, supervised by adults, is playing at the bathing beach on Archibald Lake. On the shore is a tent with a woman sitting inside. Caption r... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Wallace Donelson Rumsey, the photographer's younger brother, is doing a back flip dive off a raft into Archibald Lake. He was named after Civil War General... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Lillian Wheeler is wading in Archibald Lake. She may be holding the hand of Jeannette Holt. There is another girl who is wearing bloomers, which may be Ele... |
| Date: | 09 02 1913 |
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| Description: | Sitting in galvanized wash tubs with their legs in the water, three girls are ready for the race on Archibald Lake. Jeannette Holt is in the middle, flanke... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | View towards a group digging for fresh water mussels in Archibald Lake. From left to right: a woman waist-deep in the water; a boy holding onto the side of... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | View across water towards a line of Holt children and others who are playing with a long log in Archibald Lake in front of the Bath House. Jeannette Holt i... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Smiling Uncle Wallace Rumsey is pushing a wooden wheelbarrow with Jeannette and Alfred Holt inside. They are on the dirt path leading to the swimming beach... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Elevated view through trees towards a man preparing to dive or jump off a wooden diving board, mounted on a barge, into Archibald Lake. Waiting his turn, a... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Jeannette Holt (far left) is standing in the water near the shoreline with one foot up on a log. She is balancing a metal pail on her knee, which has a scr... |
| Date: | 08 1905 |
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| Description: | Alfred Holt is in the middle of doing a somersault from the boat into Archibald Lake. Standing in the water and watching Alfred are, from left to right: Ca... |
| Date: | 08 1908 |
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| Description: | A group of women, men, and children are bathing in Archibald Lake. Caption reads: "The more the merrier. Mrs. Sidley, Juli, Mr. Sidley, and Arch." |
| Date: | 08 1925 |
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| Description: | View from Archibald Lake of toddler Barbara Holt who is sitting on the beach and laughing. Her feet are in water. Aunt Jeannette Holt, wearing a headscarf,... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | A boy is hanging upside down from the diving raft on Archibald Lake. Similar to many items owned by the Holt family, this raft probably was made by hand wi... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Two boys are sailing a homemade boat on Archibald Lake. Forested lands are in the background. |
| Date: | 08 11 1914 |
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| Description: | Eleanor Holt (r) is holding Eleanor Loomis (l) as they bathe together in Archibald Lake. Two boats are resting on the shore of the Island. Loomis is wearin... |
| Date: | 08 11 1914 |
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| Description: | W.A. Holt, second from the right, and a group of mostly children are playing in Archibald Lake. On the far left, Alfred Holt is giving a thumbs up, with a ... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | This action shot captures a group on a raft diving into Archibald Lake, with the Island in the background. The divers are probably members of the Holt, Str... |
| Date: | 08 1917 |
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| Description: | Sitting in front of the bath house, bathers are dangling their feet in Archibald Lake. A young man is sunbathing on the roof. A woman is standing in the ba... |
| Date: | 08 1919 |
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| Description: | A group of eight swimmers are hanging out together at the Holt pier on Archibald Lake. A girl in the foreground is floating in a wash tub. The young men ar... |
| Date: | 08 1922 |
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| Description: | The diver, possibly David Rumsey, is doing a handstand on the end of the diving board. Archibald Lake is in the background. |
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