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| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of four household employees posing in front of the door of a cabin. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Portrait of two women wearing aprons, possibly cooks. The woman on the left is holding a platter. The woman on the right is holding a stack of small plates... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Standing on the pier, Jeannette Holt is doing laundry by hand, using the washboard in an iron bucket that is sitting on the diving board. Archibald Lake an... |
| 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: | 09 1899 |
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| Description: | The faun, standing up on its hind legs, is taking food from a man holding a cooking pot at Peshtigo Brook Farm. In the background is a building with an ope... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Jeannette Holt, family and friends are laughing and having a watermelon seed fight in front of Island Lodge. Names from left to right: Jeannette Holt, unkn... |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | This a portrait of the Island Lodge cook Mrs. Schauers (left) and another household employee displaying a fine culinary work of art: a shortcake topped wit... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Circular-framed view of Jeannette Holt's bassinet with blanket on a chair at home. A woman wearing a long dress can be seen from the shoulders down standin... |
| Date: | 05 1904 |
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| Description: | Miss McDonald, Jeannette Holt, and Alfred Holt are going fishing. Standing on the wooden sidewalk, they are holding long bamboo fishing poles over their sh... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Eleanor Holt, wearing a bow in her hair, who is standing and pouring a cup of tea for her brother, Donald... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | On a sunny day, Albert Rhode is driving the horse-drawn wagon, with Mrs. Rinka is sitting beside him. Eva is in the back of the wagon, sitting behind the f... |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Under a tent, three men are eating a meal prepared by cook Bob Morris, who is standing beside the table. In the foreground is a tree stump which is loaded ... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | A view of a Holt family lunch or dinner on the porch at Island Lodge. W.A. Holt is sitting at the far end of the table, and Lucy Rumsey Holt is sitting at ... |
| 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: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View from the lake of Miss Ransom washing clothes by hand, using lake water. Beside her on the pier is an enamel metal wash bowl. Archibald Lake is in the ... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Three cousins are sitting at a table eating a meal on the porch at the Island Lodge on Archibald Lake. Names from left to right are: Harriet Stroh, Margare... |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | A group of men and women are eating a meal under a tent. Tableware and utensils are on the tree stump in the foreground. Names from left to right: Lucy Rum... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A group of three women and a girl, household employees at Island Lodge, standing in front of Green Cottage. Built in 1901, this cottage is where the cook a... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | A group of Holts and Garrisons are roasting corn around a smoking campfire on the Island, with Archibald Lake in the background. W.A. Holt is on the far le... |
| 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... |
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