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Boats on Shore

Date: 1926
Description: Three boats are pulled up on a small rocky beach. There are houses on the far shoreline.
Photograph

Wrecked Boat in Winter

Date: 1920
Description: An unidentified man poses near a wrecked boat. A log house with two lean-to additions is behind him and there is a smaller log building on the left. Snow c...
Photograph

Grounded Sailboat

Date: 1912
Description: The photographer's daughters, from left, Helen, Alice, Margaret and son Ferdinand Leonard at the wheel, pose on a two-masted boat, the Martha G., wh...
Photograph

Boating

Date: 1912
Description: A launch with men standing on the deck passes close to rocky bluffs as seagulls fly overhead.
Photograph

Gordon Cottage

Date: 1915
Description: A boat with an outboard motor is tied to the rustic log pier; a second boat is overturned on an extension of the pier. There is a fish net hanging over the...
Photograph

Rowboat

Date: 1920
Description: A rowboat is moored alongside the rustic boardwalk to the boathouse at the Hotz family cottage at Europe Lake.
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Coast Guard Station

Date: 1915
Description: Six Coastguardsmen pose with an officer on the shore at the Coast Guard Station at Baileys Harbor. The men are identified as (left to right) Reinhart Hicke...
Photograph

Baileys Harbor

Date: 1915
Description: The Baileys Harbor Coast Guard Life Saving Station viewed from between a fishing boat and a pier warehouse. The station's pier extends into the harbor and ...
Photograph

Baileys Harbor Coast Guard Station

Date: 1915
Description: Winter view of the Coast Guard Life Saving Station at Baileys Harbor. Snow has drifted on the shore, where a small boat rests.
Photograph

Boat on Europe Lake

Date: 1923
Description: David Kincaid hauls a row boat onto shore with a rope. Kincaid was the caretaker of the Hotz Europe Lake estate.
Photograph

Foss Dock

Date: 1920
Description: View from the water of Washington Harbor on Washington Island. There are boats moored and warehouses along the pier. Fishing nets dry on racks on the shore...
Postcard

Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal

Date: 1906
Description: Hand-colored postcard view of the Sturgeon Bay ship canal from the bay toward shore. A sailboat is on the left and a lighthouse is on shore on the right. C...
Photograph

Pier at Fish Creek

Date: 1915
Description: Elevated view of Fish Creek Harbor as a boat approaches the pier and warehouse. In the foreground are houses with outbuildings, gardens and a small orchard...
Photograph

Sand Dune

Date: 1915
Description: A wooden boat forms the foreground of a view of a stream, probably Shivering Sands Creek, and wetlands, with a sand dune on the right.
Postcard

County Trunk E and Kangaroo Lake

Date: 
Description: Photographic postcard view of a county road crossing over a lake. Two automobiles are on the road. On the right is a boat at the shoreline behind a "Parkin...
Photograph

Dock in Sturgeon Bay

Date: 1895
Description: Seven men, standing informally, some wearing “yachting caps”, on a dock, presumably in Sturgeon Bay, Wis.
Postcard

Scene at the Pier, Death's Door

Date: 1940
Description: Black and white photographic postcard of people on the shoreline and on the pier at Death's Door. Signs on a tree near a snack stand on the right read: "Sm...
Postcard

Peterson's Boat Works

Date: 1958
Description: View from pier of Peterson's Boat Works in Sturgeon Bay.
Postcard

Washington Island Ferry "Voyageur"

Date: 1961
Description: Color postcard view of the "Voyageur," a car and passenger ferry operating between mainland Door County and Washington Island. Two motorboats are moored on...
Map or Atlas

Chart of Sturgeon Bay, Canal, and Harbor of Refuge, Lake Michigan

Date: 06 25 1901
Description: This map shows beacons, buoys, docks, quarries, streets, and buildings. The map inset shows the Harbor of refuge at entrance to Sturgeon Bay and Lake Michi...

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