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Dragging Logs
January 1928
A man drives a horse which is harnessed with a chain to a hemlock log.
Horse-Drawn Skid
1927
David Kincaid, caretaker of the Hotz Europe Lake estate, stands on a skid pulled by a horse. His axe is embedded in one of the runners.
Sawing Logs
January 1928
Two men use a crosscut saw to cut a hemlock log while a third watches. A splitting maul and a splitting wedge rest on a tree stump in the foreground. Smoke rises from a brush pile.
The Hotz Sawmill
January 1928
The sawmill at Newport in winter, with logs and lumber stacked nearby.
Kincaid
1915
David Kincaid sits in a sulky harnessed to a horse in front of an old log building. Lake Michigan provides the backdrop. Kincaid was the caretaker of the Hotz estate at Europe Lake.
Europe Lake Cottage
1924
A stone lined driveway leads to the Hotz family cottage on Europe Lake.
