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Fishing On Breakwater

Date: 1910
Description: Long row of men in suits and hats fishing on the breakwater.
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Ice Shanty on Sturgeon Bay

Date: 1898
Description: A boy dressed in knickers clears the ice in preparation to fish next to his family's ice shanty.
Postcard

Statue of Leif Ericson

Date: 1910
Description: View along top of hill in the park toward a woman and child sitting on a bench near the monument. At the bottom of the hill on the left are railroad tracks...
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Mason Street

Date: 1889
Description: Looking down street toward Lake Michigan, which is visible at the end of the road. The dirt street is lined with trees and houses. On the right stands a...
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Small Buggy with Tandem Horses

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Description: A one-person carriage driven by a woman is led by two tandem horses stepping in rhythm and wearing blinders. A lake (probably Lake Michigan), and shoreline...
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Veblen on Beach

Date: 1920
Description: Thorstein Veblen sitting on a beach, probably at Washington Island, surrounded by driftwood. There is a young child on the beach on the right.
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Lakefront View

Date: 08 23 1964
Description: View of Lake Michigan as seen from the lakefront property owned by Mr. Lloyd Lehman. Mrs. Lehman, and a neighbor, Patti O'Connell, attempt to set a dinner ...
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Alice Holloway's Engagement Trip

Date: 1930
Description: Alice Holloway standing in front of a flowering rose bush along the shore of Lake Michigan during a trip to Milwaukee to celebrate her engagement.
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Boat Landing

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Description: Elevated view toward a small boat landing and pier area on the shore of Lake Michigan. Many men, women and children are on the pier, and a house is on a hi...
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World's Fair Transportation Center

Date: 1893
Description: Elevated view of the Illinois Central World's Fair Transportation Center at Van Buren Street. Several pedestrians cross a bridge leading to trains and lake...
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Boathouse and Bathhouse

Date: 1924
Description: A small wood frame boathouse with a double door, and a bathhouse stand near the Hotz cottage on the shore near Fish Creek Beach. Both have rustic twig rail...
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Boating

Date: 07 26 1924
Description: Ferdinand L. (Fedy) Hotz steers the powerboat "Oweene" with 6 women passengers. His mother, Clothilde, sits closest to him. Door Bluff is in the backgroun...
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Group at Detroit Harbor

Date: 07 1924
Description: A man stands with a group of nine women posed in front of a small commercial building. A sign in the shape of a tire advertises "Goodyear Service Station."...
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Mrs. Ch. Harris

Date: 1925
Description: A woman stands by the gate beside a wooden house, possibly at Newport. The house's downspout drains into a rain barrel. Lake Michigan is in the background...
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Farmstead

Date: 1912
Description: View down dirt road leading to the Carlson farm at Nelson Bay in Peninsula State Park. A man stands in the background among the farm buildings near a parke...
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Iceboating

Date: 1920
Description: Three men work with an iceboat just offshore near Cottage Row Road. The sail and boom lie on the ice. There are boathouses and three windmills along the ...
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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...
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Kincaid

Date: 1915
Description: David Kincaid sits in a sulky harnessed to a horse in front of an old log building. Lake Michigan provides the backdrop. Kincaid was the caretaker of the...
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Fish Creek Harbor

Date: 1924
Description: Elevated view of the photographer's son, Ferdinand Leonard (Fedy) sitting on the bluff overlooking Fish Creek Harbor. The old warehouses are seen on the pi...
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Dr. Gordon's Cottage

Date: 1915
Description: View across rocky shoreline of Dr. Gordon standing in front of his cottage on the rocky North Bay shore. The cottage is partially obscured in a dense stand...

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