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| Date: | 08 30 1918 |
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| Description: | Wearing a hat and scarf, an unknown woman is sitting on the ground in the woods, looking at the camera. To her right, amidst ferns and plants, Lucy Rumsey ... |
| 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: | 08 27 1910 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of Holt and Wheeler children who are dressed in costumes to resemble young Germans. One boy, sitting on the floor in front, is pretending to... |
| Date: | 06 16 1911 |
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| Description: | A group of travelers are standing on a platform, with the train station in the background. Names from left to right: Philip Smith, Eleanor Holt, Jeannette ... |
| Date: | 02 03 1912 |
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| Description: | On the way to Lakewood, the horse-drawn sleigh stops in Gillett for a picnic lunch. Caption reads: "Mr. Chase, Miss Stuart, Miss Le Tourneaux (sp?), Mrs. W... |
| Date: | 02 08 1912 |
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| Description: | Group of people playing the card game called Flinch. There is an electric lamp in the background. Caption reads: "Cousin Carolyn, foster mother during abse... |
| Date: | 05 30 1912 |
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| Description: | Three girls are decorating Lucy Rumsey Holt's electric car with American flags for Decoration Day, possibly for a parade. Jeannette Holt is on the left. Sp... |
| Date: | 04 10 1913 |
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| Description: | Donald Holt and Fred Mooney are going fishing. Each boy is carrying a long bamboo fishing pole. Fred Mooney has the creel. Mrs. Mahoney is carrying a woode... |
| Date: | 04 10 1913 |
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| Description: | Donald Holt (left) and Fred Mooney (right) are posing with their fishing gear. |
| Date: | 06 1912 |
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| Description: | Three tennis players, holding their wooden racquets, are posing at the net on a grass court. Names from left to right: Jeannette Holt, Jean Fergeson, and E... |
| 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: | 08 22 1913 |
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| Description: | An informal group portrait of some of the Holt and Stroh cousins, along with Uncle Wallace Rumsey. Jeannette Holt and Wallace Rumsey are holding metal milk... |
| Date: | 02 06 1914 |
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| Description: | A group of children and adults is on the wooden toboggan slide in the backyard of the Lucy and W.A. Holt home. One person on the top platform is holding a ... |
| Date: | 02 06 1914 |
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| Description: | View of the backyard toboggan slide from the second floor of the Lucy and W.A. Holt home. Several people are in the snow at the bottom of the wooden slide. |
| Date: | 08 1919 |
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| Description: | A group of eight swimmers are hanging out together at the Holt pier on Archibald Lake. A girl in the foreground is floating in a wash tub. The young men ar... |
| Date: | 06 04 1921 |
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| Description: | Mr. Bell is standing in a boat, holding a long pole. Caption reads: "Mr. Bell." |
| Date: | 08 21 1922 |
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| Description: | W.A. Holt and three of his adult children are picnicking under birch trees on the shore of Archibald Lake. From left to right: Jeannette Holt, wearing f... |
| Date: | 08 1922 |
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| Description: | The diver, possibly David Rumsey, is doing a handstand on the end of the diving board. Archibald Lake is in the background. |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | View of the Archibald Lake shoreline from a small wooden boat. |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Peter DeWitt and a friend or cousin are sitting on the sand beach near logs. A bird is perched nearby on a wooden pier. |
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