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Hotz Cottage

Date: 1918
Description: The Hotz cottage, garage, and stone tower are seen through a stand of birch trees from the base of the bluff in Fish Creek. There is snow on the ground.
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Ferdinand Hotz

Date: 1918
Description: Ferdinand Hotz poses on snowshoes at the base of a bluff. The Hotz cottage complex, built in 1912-3, is seen atop the bluff. The complex included three co...
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Boathouse at Europe Lake

Date: 1921
Description: A walkway with rustic railing leads to the Hotz family boathouse on Europe Lake. A well-worn path leads downhill to the water.
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Girl with Dog

Date: 1921
Description: The photographer's daughter Margaret poses with a dachshund on the path in front of the Hotz family cottage on Europe Lake. Two flights of steps on a steep...
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Mink River

Date: 1921
Description: A view of the Mink River estuary with marsh grasses in the foreground.
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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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Sleigh on Door County Harbor

Date: 02 1924
Description: A single horse pulls an enclosed sleigh across a frozen Door County harbor. Houses and a church are visible onshore.
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Locked Antlers

Date: 02 1924
Description: Two dead bucks with locked antlers are nearly buried in snow. The heads were mounted and hung in the Hotz family Europe Lake cottage until they were stolen...
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Fish Creek Harbor

Date: 1925
Description: Elevated view of Fish Creek from the east; the bluff rises on the left, the harbor is on the right. The cottage in the foreground with pergola and lattice ...
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Door County

Date: 1925
Description: Elevated view of Fish Creek from the east. The photographer's first Fish Creek cottage, with a standing seam metal roof, is in the foreground; in the yard ...
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Beach Pine

Date: 1925
Description: View looking north on the shore of Europe bay. A picturesque old pine stands near the site of the old pier.
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Men at Europe Lake

Date: 1925
Description: Two men pose alongside the Hotz Cottage at Europe Lake. The man in the background is David Kincaid, the caretaker.
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Nelson Bay and Point

Date: 1925
Description: Rocky shoreline at Nelson Point, now in Peninsula State Park.
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Man and Dog

Date: 1923
Description: A well-dressed man poses holding a German short-haired pointer on a leash near the outlet of the Fish Creek into the harbor.
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Lake Europe Cabin

Date: 1923
Description: A narrow stone-lined lane leads to the Hotz family cottage on Europe Lake, where two men stand on the porch. The man on the right is David Kincaid, the ca...
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Nelson Point

Date: 1923
Description: A small cottage is barely visible through the trees on the rocky shore at Nelson Point, now part of Peninsula State Park.
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Europe Bay

Date: 1923
Description: Sunlight glints off the water under a threatening sky.
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Man in Snow

Date: 1912
Description: Winter scene with a bearded man standing in deep snow among birch and conifer trees at the base of the bluff at Fish Creek. He is wearing a fur hat and hea...
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Door County Birches

Date: 1912
Description: A scene of birch trees and low growing junipers on the Levi Vorous farm at Fish Creek.
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Egg Harbor

Date: 1925
Description: View from low hill of a man standing as he is driving a team and wagon up Egg Harbor Road, traveling north. An automobile is parked in the foreground along...

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