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Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, Looking Northeast

Date: 1893
Description: Bird's-eye map of Sturgeon Bay, looking Northeast. Area bordered by Church Street in top left corner, leather & Smith Bridge in bottom left corner, Lawrenc...
Photograph

Gill's Rock

Date: 09 1947
Description: Slightly elevated view of people waiting for the ferry at the Gill's Rock landing in Door County. Caption reads: "Scene at Gill's Rock Landing, Door County...
Photograph

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.
Photograph

Fisherman's Wharf

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Description: Boats and buildings on a fisherman's wharf.
Photograph

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...
Photograph

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."...
Photograph

Family on the Dock

Date: 1908
Description: The photographer's family poses on the dock beside the ship "Sailor Boy" of Sturgeon Bay. Clothilde Hotz holds the hand of Ferdinand Leonard (Fedy); daught...
Postcard

County Trunk E and Kangaroo Lake

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Description: Photographic postcard view of a county road crossing over a lake. Two automobiles are on the road. On the right is a boat at the shoreline behind a "Parkin...
Postcard

Scene at the Pier, Death's Door

Date: 1940
Description: Black and white photographic postcard of people on the shoreline and on the pier at Death's Door. Signs on a tree near a snack stand on the right read: "Sm...
Postcard

Washington Island Ferry "C.G. Richter"

Date: 1950
Description: Color photographic postcard view of the "C.G. Richter" at the dock, a ferry operating between mainland Door County and Washington Island.
Photograph

Mooring Basin

Date: 01 06 1958
Description: View from snowy shoreline of Mooring Basin at bay end of Ship Canal. The boat moored in the foreground is named "Allie." It is tethered to a post on the sh...
Postcard

Group Portrait of People Standing on a Pier

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Description: View across water towards a group of people, men, woman, and young girls and boys, posing on a pier in front of a building on the shoreline of Sister Bay. ...
Photograph

Steve Hopkins and Roger Debenham Posing with Trout

Date: 05 1973
Description: Steve Hopkins and Roger Debenham posing in Sturgeon Bay with seven trout they caught on Lake Michigan hanging from pegs under a sign that reads, "Bay Chart...
Photograph

Steve Hopkins and Two Men on a Charter Boat in the Baudhuin Yacht Harbor

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Description: Steve Hopkins and two men standing on a Bay Charter Service boat docked at the Baudhuin Yacht Harbor marina in Sturgeon Bay. The yacht club house stands be...
Postcard

View of the Shore

Date: 1915
Description: View of Ephraim from the bay, with a pier in the foreground. Churches are on the left and right, and the Hillside Hotel is in the center near the shore. Ca...
Postcard

Gills Rock Landing

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Description: View down the Gills Rock boat landing with tourists gathered waiting for a ferry. A hamburger stand is at the end of the dock. Caption reads: "Gills Rock L...
Postcard

Ferry Boat "Griffin"

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Description: Color postcard of a Washington Island ferry docked at Gills Rock, with an automobile in the hold and tourists on board.
Photograph

Wharf at Fish Creek

Date: 1935
Description: View from shoreline towards fishing boats of various sizes, and sailboats docked at the wharf at Fish Creek. Two persons are carrying gear toward the pier....
Photograph

Anderson Dock

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Description: View of Anderson Dock through trees from the shoreline. Graffiti, covers the building.
Photograph

"C.G. Richter" Ferry at Dock

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Description: View down concrete pier towards people and a docked ferry, the "C.G. Richter," waiting for the ferry to unload a car.

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