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| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View down trail towards a small group of women and girls hiking in Cathedral Woods on a sunny day. The old growth forest is made up of pines and hemlocks. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View down the first part of the path to Cathedral Woods from Barn Pond. The logs laid lengthwise and crosswise help one across the bog into the forest prop... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A group of three women and a girl, household employees at Island Lodge, standing in front of Green Cottage. Built in 1901, this cottage is where the cook a... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Three men, and young David Rumsey are standing in the shade by the hollow hemlock log. The man on the right is holding an axe. Part of a series captioned: ... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | View towards David Rumsey sticking his head out of the left side of a large hemlock log to be used for the new pulpit. Wonder who the prankster was who dec... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Young David Rumsey is sitting on a log between his father and mother on a sunny day. Parents Wallace and Edna Rumsey are looking at the camera. There is a ... |
| Date: | 08 10 1913 |
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| Description: | It is a Wednesday in the middle of August. Standing in the woods on the Island, W.A. Holt is reading aloud, possibly scripture or a children's sermon. A gr... |
| 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: | 1913 |
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| Description: | From left to right, Donald Holt and Donald Bridgeman, each holding a book, are standing in front of the Cupola on the Island. Caption reads: "Donald, Donal... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | W.A. Holt and his children are standing by the flag pole, with the American flag flying. Names from left to right: Alfred Holt, W.A. Holt, Donald Holt, Jea... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | A group of women and children are standing in front of the porch at Island Lodge. From left to right: Jeannette Holt smiling and holding a bundle of vines ... |
| Date: | 08 16 1909 |
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| Description: | W.A. Holt is watching his children paint the cupola which was moved to the Island from the Lakewood school house. From left to right: Jeannette Holt is pai... |
| Date: | 08 1898 |
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| Description: | On the screened porch at Island Lodge, baby Alfred Holt is sitting in an infant-sized wooden rocking chair with sister Jeannette standing at his side. She ... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Jeannette Holt is standing and getting the tangles out of her brother Alfred Holt's hair in front of Island Lodge porch. Alfred is sitting in a small chair... |
| 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: | 1901 |
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| Description: | A woman wearing a long skirt and blouse is standing and holding baby Eleanor Holt in her arms while standing on the front porch of Island Lodge on Archibal... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | The American flag, twisted around the wooden pole on the Island, is the focal point this picture. Lucy and W.A. Holt with their children are standing to th... |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Juliet Stroh (right) has her mouth on the narrow end of the Hello-phone, a.k.a megaphone. At the same time, Donald Holt (left) is sticking his arms and fac... |
| Date: | 08 1904 |
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| Description: | The four Holt children are helping their father haul brush. Names from left to right: W.A. Holt, Donald Holt, Eleanor Holt, Jeannette Holt, and Alfred Holt... |
| Date: | 08 1905 |
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| Description: | Grandfather I.P. Rumsey is teaching grandson Alfred Holt how to shoot a gun on the shore of Archibald Lake. Jeannette Holt and the Stroh girls are watching... |
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