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| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Squinting at the camera, Alfred Holt is lying in a metal tub, which is floating on Archibald Lake. His knees are bent and his hands are holding the sides o... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from shoreline of Archibald Lake towards Alfred Holt standing on the pier holding the rope with both hands to hold the Islander steam ... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Baby Lillian Wheeler, wearing a dress, is standing on a pile of lumber with support from her mother Anna (Holt) Wheeler. Lillian's brother Gordon Wheeler, ... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | With her back to the camera, Eleanor Holt is rowing a boat on Archibald Lake. In the foreground, Donald Holt is rowing another boat. The tree-lined shoreli... |
| Date: | 09 1908 |
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| Description: | View from the Island shoreline towards Anna Holt Wheeler and husband Arthur Dana Wheeler, with children Gordon and Lillian, all sitting in a rowboat at the... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Four men are unloading a wooden boat from a horse-drawn wagon. Lake Archibald is in the background. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View across water towards a group of women and children packed in the Islander steam launch which is tied to the pier. A nautical flag is flying fro... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Mr. and Mrs. Ramsey of Oconto are taking a ride in the Islander steam launch on Archibald Lake. Mrs. Ramsey is wearing a hat. Mr. Ramsey is wearing ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Lillian Wheeler is rowing a boat on Archibald Lake. She is looking at the oar. A woman, sitting in the rowboat and wearing a sun hat, is possibly Lillian's... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | View towards Donald Holt sitting in a rowboat and smiling at the camera. He is on Archibald Lake with the shoreline just behind him. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | View across water towards a wooded shoreline, where a man and woman, followed by two children, are walking out of the woods toward Middle Lake where four w... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline towards a girl paddling a boat on Archibald Lake. She is looking towards the camera. Trees are along the shoreline in the background. |
| Date: | 09 02 1913 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from shoreline towards a group of nine people sitting in three rowboats on Archibald Lake near the boathouse on the left. Several of the boat... |
| 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: | 1911 |
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| Description: | The boathouse is protecting the steam launch, called The Islander, from the elements. The man in the boathouse on the left is pulling a rope. A man ... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | View across water towards members of the Reading Circle, including one woman and six children. The "H," made of birch branches, marks the location as being... |
| Date: | 09 1906 |
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| Description: | Standing in the center of the Islander steam launch on Archibald Lake, W.A. Holt is wearing a sea captain's hat. Friends and family are going with W... |
| Date: | 08 1905 |
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| Description: | Using a long wooden stick as an oar, Donald Holt is rowing the boat, which is beached on land. Juliet Stroh is sitting in the boat with Donald Holt. A log ... |
| 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: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Alfred Holt (center) is rowing the boat on Archibald Lake while Richard Rumsey (?) and James McClure are baiting hooks for fishing. The wild shoreline and ... |
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