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Eagle Harbor

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Description: Eagle Harbor, looking west, with boats anchored in the harbor. In the foreground are the stone pillars of the village fire station.
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Sister Bay, Wisconsin

Date: 1900
Description: View down the main street of Sister Bay. Horse-drawn vehicles are parked at the Post Office is at the end of the street in the background. Caption reads: "...
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Boys With Bicycle on Main Street

Date: 1900
Description: Syl stands holding an umbrella near an unidentified boy who is leaning on a bicycle on the edge of a cobblestone street. Storefronts are along the street o...
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Piles of Snow in front of Storefronts

Date: 1900
Description: Winter scene of a Sturgeon Bay street. The exteriors of storefronts are piled high with banks of snow. Signage reads "O.E. Klug & Co. Hardware" and "O.E. ...
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Road in Winter

Date: 1924
Description: Winter scene with a snow-covered road bordered by stone walls and pillars on Cottage Row Road. Birches and evergreens line the road.
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Church in Winter

Date: 02 1924
Description: View from behind of two horses (probably pulling a sleigh) on a snowy road, now Highway 42, near Zion Lutheran Church in Sister Bay. The horse on the left ...
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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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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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Winter Lane

Date: 02 1924
Description: A small log sided building with roof ventilator, among other buildings, stands near the Wilms house along Cottage Row Road outside of Fish Creek. A low sto...
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Fish Creek Corner in Winter

Date: 1924
Description: View looking southeast at the corner of Main (Egg Harbor Road) and Spruce Streets. Snow is on the ground. A neoclassical house (the Noble house) with front...
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Europe Lake Cottage

Date: 1925
Description: Elevated view of the log Hotz cottage on Europe Lake, seen in the background. The photographer climbed a tree to capture this view. A dirt road leads to th...
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Flood at Fish Creek

Date: 04 1922
Description: The photographer's wife Clothilde leans on a railing, looking at water rushing through a stone culvert on Fish Creek. Their car is parked on the roadway. A...
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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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Group at Detroit Harbor

Date: 07 1924
Description: A man stands with a group of nine women posed in front of a small commercial building. A sign in the shape of a tire advertises "Goodyear Service Station."...
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Central Farm

Date: 1919
Description: Weathered farm buildings stand beside a dirt road. Behind the buildings, the orchard is in bloom.
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Europe Lake Cottage

Date: 1924
Description: A stone lined driveway leads to the Hotz family cottage on Europe Lake.
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Stone Garage and Tower

Date: 1920
Description: View of the stone garage and tower at the Hotz Fish Creek compound on Egg Harbor Road, now Highway 42. There is a rustic lattice fence and gate along the r...
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Country Church

Date: 1925
Description: Three women pose on the steps of the Baptist Church at Ellison Bay, which has an open bell tower. A car is parked a short distance down the dirt road.
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Farmstead

Date: 1912
Description: View down dirt road leading to the Carlson farm at Nelson Bay in Peninsula State Park. A man stands in the background among the farm buildings near a parke...

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