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| Description: | Eight men are posing outside the porch of a cottage which is surrounded by trees. There are blankets and clothes hanging on the clothesline. A work table w... |
| Date: | 08 12 1943 |
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| Description: | Two indigenous boys peel yams on Kiriwina Island, in the Solomon Sea, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). |
| Date: | 08 18 1943 |
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| Description: | A young indigenous woman wearing a flower in her hair poses with an older woman who is balancing a basket on her head on Kiriwina Island in the Solomon Sea... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Two Canadian Rangers eating a meal by the campfire at their camp on Eden Island by Quetico Lake. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Three cousins are sitting at a table eating a meal on the porch at the Island Lodge on Archibald Lake. Names from left to right are: Harriet Stroh, Margare... |
| Date: | 09 1899 |
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| Description: | The faun, standing up on its hind legs, is taking food from a man holding a cooking pot at Peshtigo Brook Farm. In the background is a building with an ope... |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | This a portrait of the Island Lodge cook Mrs. Schauers (left) and another household employee displaying a fine culinary work of art: a shortcake topped wit... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | A small group is gathered on the screened porch of the Ark cottage. Anna Holt Wheeler is standing in the doorway, looking at the camera and holding a handi... |
| Date: | 08 10 1913 |
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| Description: | Lucy and W.A. Holt, with their family, the Trowbridge family and others, are sitting on the screened porch at Island Lodge for Sunday dinner. A tablecloth ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of five women, who are household employees, standing together in front of the original Cook’s Cabin, which burned down following a lightning... |
| 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: | 1922 |
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| Description: | A group of Holts and Garrisons are roasting corn around a smoking campfire on the Island, with Archibald Lake in the background. W.A. Holt is on the far le... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Jeannette Holt, family and friends are laughing and having a watermelon seed fight in front of Island Lodge. Names from left to right: Jeannette Holt, unkn... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Portrait of two women wearing aprons, possibly cooks. The woman on the left is holding a platter. The woman on the right is holding a stack of small plates... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of four household employees posing in front of the door of a cabin. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Standing on the pier, Jeannette Holt is doing laundry by hand, using the washboard in an iron bucket that is sitting on the diving board. Archibald Lake an... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Three boats, each filled with people, are leaving the pier. Two household employees, wearing aprons and standing on the pier, are watching the boats depart... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | A view of a Holt family lunch or dinner on the porch at Island Lodge. W.A. Holt is sitting at the far end of the table, and Lucy Rumsey Holt is sitting at ... |
| Date: | 08 14 1912 |
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| Description: | Jeannette Holt and two close friends are lying down on their backs on a tarp next to each other in the woods. Younger sister Eleanor Holt is also lying dow... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View from the lake of Miss Ransom washing clothes by hand, using lake water. Beside her on the pier is an enamel metal wash bowl. Archibald Lake is in the ... |
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