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Pool at Gordon Lodge

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Description: A woman in a bathing suit is standing on the edge of a swimming pool and taking a photograph of two children swimming.
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Anchor

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Description: A wood and metal anchor is displayed on the shore of Gordon Lodge. A young girl is sitting on a floating raft in North Bay. Houses and boats are on the sho...
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Boy Playing with Toy Sailboat

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Description: A boy is wading through the shallow water of Lake Michigan following a toy sailboat. In the background are sailboats tied to a dock at Gordon Lodge.
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Group Walking Along the Shoreline of Lake Michigan

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Description: View down slope towards a family walking along the shore of Lake Michigan at Gordon Lodge.
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Cana Island Lighthouse

Date: 1967
Description: Ground view of the Cana Island Lighthouse.
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Cana Island Lighthouse

Date: 1969
Description: Daisies are growing in a field near the Cana Island Lighthouse. The keeper's quarters is in front of the lighthouse.
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Boynton Chapel

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Description: A wooden chapel with a stone walkway sitting among trees and bushes. Crosses are above the door and above a small window. A bell is hanging in the bell tow...
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Cana Island

Date: 1920
Description: View from beach across Spike Horn Bay towards Cana Island and the Cana Island Light.
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Dr. Gordon's Cottage

Date: 1915
Description: View across rocky shoreline of Dr. Gordon standing in front of his cottage on the rocky North Bay shore. The cottage is partially obscured in a dense stand...
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Shoreline at Dr. Gordon's Cottage

Date: 1915
Description: A dense stand of evergreens and birch trees line the rocky shore near Dr. Gordon's cottage on North Bay.
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Dr. Gordon's Pier

Date: 1915
Description: View from rocky shoreline of a man with a fishing pole standing in the shade provided by a small roof at the end of Dr. Gordon's pier. Fishing nets dry alo...
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Doctor Gordon's Pier

Date: 1915
Description: View along shoreline towards fishing nets drying on the rail of the pier at Dr. Gordon's cottage on North Bay.
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Albert Zahn Farm House

Date: 1915
Description: The photographer's son, Ferdinand Leonard (Fedy) Hotz winds film in a camera in front of the farmhouse of artist Albert Zahn (1864-1953), also known as the...
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Cana Island

Date: 1915
Description: Birch and evergreen trees line the rocky shore of Toft Point, with Cana Island and its lighthouse in the background.
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Moonlight Bay

Date: 1915
Description: A ship lies grounded in the shallow waters of Mud Bay (part of Moonlight Bay), off Toft Point.
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Lime Kiln

Date: 1915
Description: The lime kiln, at right, at Toft Point. Crushed limestone from the nearby quarry was heated in the kiln to make whitewash. Evergreen trees and birches form...
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Baileys Harbor

Date: 1915
Description: View from shoreline over water towards a three-masted sailing vessel docked at Baileys Harbor pier. Houses and commercial buildings line the shore.
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Cana Island

Date: 1930
Description: Aerial view from over Moonlight Bay, looking east across Bues Point to Spike Horn Bay and Cana Island. The Cana Island Lighthouse is seen as a ship passes ...
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Mud Lake

Date: 1930
Description: Aerial view, looking northeast, across Mud Lake with North Bay in the background, showing cultivated fields and wooded land.
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Cana Island Lighthouse

Date: 1920
Description: The Cana Island Lighthouse and keeper's house as seen across the rocky shoreline.

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