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| Date: | 08 24 1898 |
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| Description: | A group of Holt family members and guests is arriving at the Island on Archibald Lake, with lumberjacks from Holt Lumber Company rowing the boats. The man ... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Jeannie Schauers is standing on wooden planks near a pier on the shoreline of Archibald Lake. A rowboat is pulled up on the shoreline on the left. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Two clergymen and one boy are sitting in a clinker-built duck boat on Archibald Lake. The clergyman on the left is holding a long cane pole. The clergyman ... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | View from rowboat of siblings Jeannette and Alfred Holt standing in the water and watching the rowboat approaching the shore of Archibald Lake. Alfred is h... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | View across water of four men on the baggage raft traveling toward the Island from Apple Tree Landing. Two men, possibly lumberjacks, are rowing. The bagga... |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | A group of six are riding in a wagon drawn by two horses on a dirt path along the shore of Barn Pond. Nathan McClure is sitting in the front seat on the le... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A group of five men are preparing the soil for the new tennis court. The men are using shovels, rakes, and wheelbarrows. On the right, children Alfred and ... |
| Date: | 08 1905 |
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| Description: | A group portrait of children carrying newly split wood in their arms. Alfred Holt, wearing glasses, is sitting on a pile of wood in a small wagon. Donald H... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Baby Lillian Wheeler, wearing a dress, is standing on a pile of lumber with support from her mother Anna (Holt) Wheeler. Lillian's brother Gordon Wheeler, ... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | A man, wearing a turtleneck and pants, is pushing a wheelbarrow filled with birch bark on a grassy path under tall trees on the Island at Archibald Lake. |
| 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: | 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: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A man is dressed up as a big baby and is sitting in a wicker baby carriage. He is drinking from a glass bottle. A woman wearing round eyeglasses is standin... |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Joe Rumsey (?) is pulling the wooden cart holding cousins Donald Holt and Juliet Stroh. They are playing on the porch at Island Lodge. Caption reads: "Joe ... |
| Date: | 08 1905 |
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| Description: | Using a long wooden stick as an oar, Donald Holt is rowing the boat, which is beached on land. Juliet Stroh is sitting in the boat with Donald Holt. A log ... |
| Date: | 08 1905 |
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| Description: | Children are shelling lima beans on the porch at Island Lodge. Names from left to right on the porch: Jeannette Holt, Eleanor Holt, Donald Holt, and Harrie... |
| Date: | 08 30 1926 |
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| Description: | View toward a man, sitting on the middle bench in the motor boat, holding an axe on his knees. A woman, possibly Anna Holt Wheeler, is sitting on the back ... |
| Date: | 08 04 1914 |
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| Description: | View towards Mr. Ferguson who is standing on a pier holding a rope with either a mud turtle, or a snapping turtle, tied to it. Behind him on the shoreline ... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | The Holts, Strohs, Buswells, and Wheelers are standing on the Holt pier at Archibald Lake. The Island is in the background. Names from left to right: Donal... |
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