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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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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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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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Sleighing on Ephraim Bay

Date: 02 1924
Description: Winter scene with a team of horses standing harnessed to an enclosed bobsled on snow- and ice-covered Ephraim Bay.
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Spring Flood

Date: 05 1916
Description: The Thorp house and barn are seen beyond a flooded low-lying area at the rear of the Vorous/Apfelbach farm at Fish Creek. The stone tower and buildings of ...
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Fish Creek

Date: 06 1916
Description: The barn and other outbuildings of the Vorous/Apfelbach farm stand along a rocky lane, now Highway 42. There is a row of poplar trees along a picket fence...
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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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Rock Island

Date: 1924
Description: Rock Island bluff as seen from the water.
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Fish Creek Cottage

Date: 1920
Description: The Hotz cottage is seen from the base of the bluff. Snow covers the birch and conifer trees.
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Women at Toft Point

Date: 1942
Description: The photographer's daughter, Helen Hotz Schmid, left, and granddaughter, Margaret Schmid, right, pose at water's edge with Nenn Steck Hotz at Toft Point ne...
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Toft Point

Date: 1942
Description: View from rocky shoreline of two men fishing from a small boat near Toft Point.
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Fish Creek

Date: 1920
Description: View along shoreline towards a rustic foot bridge which crosses the mouth of Fish Creek, which separates the village of Fish Creek from Peninsula State Par...
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Abandoned Town

Date: 02 1925
Description: Elevated view of the abandoned town of Fayette. Snail Shell Harbor is in the foreground, with a low warehouse along the boat dock and empty buildings on th...
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Furnace Complex

Date: 02 1925
Description: Elevated view of the abandoned Jackson Iron Company furnace complex at Fayette, on the shore of Snail Shell Harbor. Lake Michigan is in the background.
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Dolomite Cliffs

Date: 02 1925
Description: Dolomite cliffs along Snail Shell Harbor are seen in the background between the ruined buildings of the company store, left, and the machine shop on the gr...
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Fish Creek

Date: 1915
Description: Winter scene from Egg Harbor Road (Highway 42) in Fish Creek looking north toward frozen Fish Creek Harbor with the bluffs in Peninsula State Park beyond. ...
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Bridge over Fish Creek

Date: 1915
Description: A rustic foot bridge over Fish Creek connects Peninsula State Park (foreground) with the village of Fish Creek. The Vits house is at the right end of the b...
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Fish Creek Harbor

Date: 1915
Description: Elevated view, looking north, from the Hotz family compound near the bluff entrance to Fish Creek. Evergreens and bare birch trees stand in the foreground,...
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Winter Scene

Date: 1915
Description: View looking north over Fish Creek Bay, with Hen Island and Peninsula State Park in the background. There is snow on the ground, and evergreens and bare bi...
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Hotz Family Cottages

Date: 1914
Description: View from below a bluff, through evergreens and birch trees, looking up at the Hotz Fish Creek compound. The stone garage and tower are on the left.

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