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At the Beach

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Description: A woman and three children, all wearing hats, dresses, and shorts, are at the beach, playing in the sand. Two of the children have toy buckets. Behind them...
Photograph

Boy Sitting on Dock

Date: 1954
Description: The little cowboy with a toy gun on the pier is John Paul Widmer. The pier was on the Rock River at the west end of Henni Street in Theresa.
Photograph

Children With A Dog

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Description: A toddler holding a toy stands outdoors on a lawn next to a baby sitting in a toddler table and a dog. In the background is a pier and a lake.
Historical Object

135 - Cabin IV at Bedtime

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Description: Large group of campers outside their cabin, dressed in pajamas and bathrobes. Some of them are using dippers with metal pails; on the far left a row of dip...
Photograph

Toy Sailboat

Date: 1927
Description: Edward Schmidt Petersen sails a toy boat in the shallow waters near the shore of Geneva Lake at Black Point. There is a chair and another child in the fore...
Photograph

Petersen Boys on the Pier

Date: 1928
Description: Conrad, resting his feet in a baby carriage, and Edward, center, sit on a bench on the pier at Black Point; their younger brother William stands at right. ...
Postcard

Enjoying Rock Lake

Date: 1909
Description: View across water towards a group of people on and next to a dock on a lake. Four people are in a rowboat. A boy is playing with a toy sailboat in the fore...
Photograph

Toy Boat

Date: 1925
Description: Herbert Edmund Brumder, wearing a bathing suit, is standing on a wooden pier holding a large toy sailboat. An unidentified woman is sitting on the steps of...
Photograph

Peter and Douglas DeWitt Hammering at the Pier

Date: 1931
Description: With their backs facing the camera, Peter DeWitt (l) and Douglas DeWitt (r) are standing side by side, hammering nails into a pier on Archibald Lake. Dougl...

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