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Downtown Fish Creek

Date: 1905
Description: View across field and fence downhill towards the town of Fish Creek and the bay. Caption reads: "Greetings from Fish Creek, Wis."
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Washington Island

Date: 1925
Description: Washington Island, including field and fence, with buildings, automobiles, and a large ship in the distance.
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Cherry Blossom Time

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Description: Cherry trees stand in rows in an orchard during Cherry Blossom Time.
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Cherry Picking

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Description: Men and boys stand between rows of trees, picking cherries. Some of them are holding buckets and standing on ladders.
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Cherry Picking

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Description: Girls pick cherries in an orchard. Some hold buckets and sit on ladders.
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Winter Landscape

Date: 1924
Description: Elevated view of a Door County landscape in winter with snow on the ground, taken from the Hotz Fish Creek cottage. Birch trees and conifers are in the for...
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Apfelbach Summer Home

Date: 1915
Description: Birch and other trees frame the view of a distant house and barn with poplars behind, lining the road (now Highway 42) at Fish Creek.
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Orchard in Winter

Date: 02 1924
Description: Elevated view of rows of fruit trees standing near an apple storage barn with a stone foundation and several dormers. The Green Bay is visible in the back...
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Log Buildings

Date: 1926
Description: Two deteriorating log buildings stand in a stony meadow. There is a stone fence on the left and trees beyond.
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Picking Berries

Date: 1925
Description: Two young men pick berries in a field on a hill near Juddville. Chambers Island is seen on the horizon of the Green Bay.
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Field of Flowers

Date: 1920
Description: A car, left, is parked beside a field of blooming daisies. There is an old log cabin in the background.
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Two Men in front of Barn

Date: 1921
Description: Two men pose in front of a large barn at Newport Village. The barn was used to store lumber.
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Abandoned Farm

Date: 1921
Description: View across snowy field of a shingled house, barn and other outbuildings standing empty near the shore of Lake Michigan at Newport Village.
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Planting Trees at Gibraltar Orchards

Date: 05 1911
Description: Stone walls line a tilled field where workers carry shovels and bundles of small trees to plant an orchard.
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Young Orchard

Date: 08 1913
Description: Young trees in a cultivated orchard.
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Orchard in Bloom

Date: 1922
Description: View from hill of cherry trees in bloom in the Gibraltar Orchard on Sturgeon Bay Road (Highway 42.)
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Cherry Trees in Bloom

Date: 05 1919
Description: Elevated view across Sturgeon Bay Road, now Highway 42, toward the Gibraltar Orchard cherry camp. There is a wooden fence in the foreground, and the camp c...
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Birch Woods

Date: 1922
Description: A woman and girl pose near a wooden fence that separates a field from a stand of birch trees.
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Mud Lake

Date: 1930
Description: Aerial view, looking northeast, across Mud Lake with North Bay in the background, showing cultivated fields and wooded land.
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Europe Lake

Date: 1930
Description: Aerial view of the northern tip of the Door Peninsula, looking north. Europe Lake is in the center, with Europe Bay to the right. Plum Island and Washingto...

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