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| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | 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. Ho... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | After gathering birch bark, a group of children and an adult are returning to Island Lodge. One boy is pushing a wheelbarrow. Caption reads: "Birch bark ga... |
| Date: | 08 27 1910 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of Holt and Wheeler children who are dressed in costumes to resemble young Germans. One boy, sitting on the floor in front, is pretending to... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | The children are giving a bath to the Holt family dog named Spotty who is standing in a wash tub. Philip Smith is laying his hand on Spotty's back. Alfred ... |
| 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: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Jeannette Holt is holding on Spot up on its hind legs in front of Island Lodge. People are standing on the porch and watching. |
| Date: | 07 11 1913 |
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| Description: | After berry picking, the group of Trowbridges and Holts display their tin cups filled with local fruits. Names from left to right: Calvin Trowbridge, Elean... |
| Date: | 08 1913 |
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| Description: | The family is posing on the screen porch at Island Lodge. Eleanor Holt, wearing a leg brace, is sitting on the fringed hammock with her maternal grandfathe... |
| Date: | 08 13 1921 |
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| Description: | A group of berry pickers, standing in front of Island Lodge, are showing their harvest. Names from left to right: Unknown, Unknown, Elizabeth Stroh, Don De... |
| Date: | 08 23 1922 |
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| Description: | A man, possibly Henry A. Rumsey, is showing his radio to a group of family and friends. |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of boathouses floating on the water at piers along the shore of the Black River. Some of the boathouses have been owned by many generations o... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Front corner of the Main Lodge is in the left foreground with the Guest House in the background. The main lodge is built with horizontal logs. The guest ho... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Mary Livingston and W. Blair Flandreau are standing on the porch of the original Forest Lodge, along with another woman with her back to the camera. Mary i... |
| Date: | 1996 |
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| Description: | The dining room in the main lodge, with chinked log walls, wood ceiling beams, two curtained windows and a curtained doorway leading to the living room. In... |
| Date: | 1993 |
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| Description: | A side view over an expanse of mowed lawn toward the Forest Lodge guest house showing the screen porch and side entrance. The guest house is a two-story ve... |
| Date: | 1996 |
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| Description: | A wood paneled two-story room with log support beams, a chandelier, two large casement windows, a nearly two story triple sash window at the end of the roo... |
| Date: | 1997 |
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| Description: | A round black metal table and four black metal chairs are on the lawn at the side of the main lodge at Forest Lodge. Ferns edge the lawn next to the log wo... |
| Date: | 1997 |
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| Description: | Stone steps leading to the front door of the horizontal chinked log and cedar shake roofed main lodge. Log flower boxes are under the windows and two large... |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Boardwalk leading to wood steps lined with young birch trees that leads uphill to the main lodge side door. Grasses, shrubs and evergreen trees grow on eit... |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Backyard view in the autumn of horizontal chinked log lodge with a stone foundation and four stone chimneys, one with a large stone fireplace protruding ou... |
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