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Family at the Beach

Date: 1890
Description: A man and three boys in swimming suits at the beach. Presumably, Lake Michigan.
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Ice Shanty on Sturgeon Bay

Date: 1898
Description: A boy dressed in knickers clears the ice in preparation to fish next to his family's ice shanty.
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Snow and Ice Along Shoreline

Date: 1905
Description: Elevated winter scene with Sylvester Dankoler (b. 1895) standing on ice and mounds of snow near a broken pier along a shoreline. The shadow of the photogra...
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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...
Print

Winter Morning at Sister Bay

Date: 1949
Description: Holiday card of the Sister Bay lakeshore. Three figures are on the shore. Two boathouses, a covered boat, a pier, and two upright boats are in the backgrou...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

Baileys Harbor Lighthouse

Date: 1915
Description: Ferdinand Leonard (Fedy) Hotz, far left, sisters Helen, left, and Alice, sit with Thomas Toft on the rocky shore near the Baileys Harbor lighthouse. A rowb...
Photograph

Mink River

Date: 1923
Description: An unidentified man poses near a makeshift pier on the Mink River. A small boat with outboard motor is tied to the pier. The photographer's son Fedy (Ferd...
Photograph

Helen Hotz Schmid

Date: 07 1923
Description: Helen Hotz Schmid holds a wet dachsund while riding in a motorboat with other family members. Her brother, Ferdinand L. (Fedy) Hotz mans the Evinrude moto...
Photograph

Grounded Sailboat

Date: 1912
Description: The photographer's daughters, from left, Helen, Alice, Margaret and son Ferdinand Leonard at the wheel, pose on a two-masted boat, the Martha G., wh...
Photograph

Hotz Children on Shore

Date: 1915
Description: The photographer's children pose on the shore at Fish Creek Point. They are, from left, Ferdinand Leonard (Fedy), Alice, Margaret (Sissy), and Helen, who p...
Photograph

Group on Shore

Date: 1915
Description: Thomas Toft, left, on the rocky shore of Moonlight Bay with the photographer's children, from left, Helen, Alice, Ferdinand Leonard, and Margaret. Alice ho...
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Hotz Family

Date: 1915
Description: Ferdinand Hotz poses with his wife Clothilde (with glasses), son Ferdinand Leonard (Fedy) and one of his daughters on Champagne Rock on Cottage Row.
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View from Weborg Point

Date: 1915
Description: An unidentified child sits on the rocky shore at Weborg Point. Big Strawberry Island is seen center right, with Chambers Island on the horizon to the left.
Photograph

Sissy and Fedy

Date: 1913
Description: Two of the photographer's children, Margaret (Sissy), left, and Ferdinand Leonard (Fedy), right, on Weborg Point. Fish Creek Harbor is in the background; t...
Postcard

Cave Point, Door County

Date: 1960
Description: View across water towards a man, woman, and two children standing on the rock ledge at Cave Point. Lake Michigan is on the right.
Postcard

Sand Beach, Egg Harbor

Date: 1949
Description: View across beach towards a small boy standing at the water's edge. Rowboats are resting on the shoreline in the background. Caption reads: "Sand Beach, Eg...
Photograph

Dead Fish Along the Shoreline

Date: 1967
Description: View along shoreline with a large amount of dead alewives floating in the water near large rocks. A man and children are standing on a stone fishing dock o...
Photograph

Stacking Rocks

Date: 1967
Description: Two children sit on a shingle beach with Lake Michigan in the background. The girl is watching as the boy is stacking stones on top of each other to make a...
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Fishing on a Pier

Date: 1967
Description: A young boy and girl are sitting on a pier looking out towards the lake. The boy is sitting on a post fishing with a fishing rod.

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