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Toboggan Slide in Backyard
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A group of children and adults is on the wooden toboggan slide in the backyard of the Lucy and W.A. Holt home. One person on the top platform is holding a toboggan. Several others are also waiting up top. Two people are climbing up the stairs beside the slide. Caption reads: "Toboggan Slide in Backyard."
February 6, 1914
Holt, Lucy
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Looking Down the Toboggan Slide
February 6, 1914
View of the backyard toboggan slide from the second floor of the Lucy and W.A. Holt home. Several people are in the snow at the bottom of the wooden slide.
W.A. Holt and Daughter Eleanor Tobogganing
November 26, 1903
Smiling at the camera, daughter Eleanor Holt is tobogganing with her father W.A. Holt in the backyard of the Holt family home. Aunt Nell is standing behind the toboggan. There is a toboggan slide i...
Winter Sports
December 1909
Children are playing winter sports, including sledding and snowshoeing, in the backyard. The slide and sleds are made of wood. The snowshoers are holding hockey sticks. On the right, Alfred Holt is...
Photomontage of Father W.A. Holt and Daughter Jeannette
August 21, 1897
Photomontage of father W.A. Holt and daughter Jeannette.
Lucy and W.A. Holt Family
1918
A casual portrait of the Lucy and W.A. Holt family. Standing from left to right: Alfred Holt in military uniform, Jeannette Holt, Lucy Rumsey Holt, W.A. Holt. Sitting from left to right: Eleanor Ho...
Eleanor and Spotty
May 1912
Sitting on a wooden sawhorse in the backyard, Eleanor Holt is giving a treat to Spotty, the family dog.
