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Young School Boys Standing in a Row Outdoors

Date: 1918
Description: Young school boys are lined up in a row on the sidewalk. An older boy is standing behind the group. The young boys are all wearing short pants. One boy (th...
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Alfred Holt Snowshoeing

Date: 11 26 1903
Description: Alfred Holt is snowshoeing in the backyard of the Holt family home in Oconto. A wood fence and neighboring homes are in the background. Caption reads: "Alf...
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Miss McDonald

Date: 05 1904
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...
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Playing in the Leaves

Date: 10 1925
Description: Barbara Holt, on the left, is looking at the camera while sitting in a pile of dried leaves. Behind her is Aunt Eleanor Holt, who is wearing a fur-collared...
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The Winter Slide

Date: 02 29 1916
Description: Atop the winter slide, Lillian Wheeler is positioning herself on the sled. Her mother Anna Holt Wheeler is watching her, and a third person is standing beh...
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Lillian Wheeler Toboganning

Date: 02 29 1916
Description: Toddler Lillian Wheeler is tobogganing down the snowy chute with her mother Anna Holt Wheeler, and a third person is sitting behind Anna. There is a house ...
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Before: Pump and Drinking Trough for Horses

Date: 1916
Description: View of the pump and drinking trough for horses on a triangle of land at the junction of Chicago and Main Streets. The first Christian Science Church build...
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Skating at the Winter Club

Date: 01 05 1912
Description: The Holt children are skating in a line at an ice rink. The girls are holding fur hand warmers. There is a toboggan slide in the background. Names from lef...
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The Electric

Date: 07 24 1913
Description: The entire Holt family, except photographer Lucy Rumsey Holt, is squeezing into the car. Lucy Rumsey Holt was the principal driver of this electric car. Na...
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Sleigh Ride

Date: 03 23 1922
Description: Two horses are pulling an open sleigh with a man at the reins through cutover land with many tree stumps.

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