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Friends of Jeannette Holt in Winter

Date: 1919
Description: Three young women are posing for a winter portrait with a sled and wooden skis. There is a building with a porch on a hill in the background.
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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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W.A. Holt and Daughter Eleanor Tobogganing

Date: 11 26 1903
Description: 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...
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Winter Sports

Date: 12 1909
Description: Children are playing winter sports, including sledding and snowshoeing, in the backyard. The slide and sleds are made of wood. The snowshoers are holding h...
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Alfred Holt's Gate Post Leap

Date: 12 1909
Description: On a snowy day, Alfred Holt is leaping from the gate post. Several children are watching him. A girl, wearing a floppy winter hat, is looking at the camera...
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Barbara Holt on the Sled

Date: 1929
Description: On a sunny winter day, Barbara Holt is ready to go sledding. She is sitting on the wooden sled and holding the rope in her left hand.
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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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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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Sleigh Ride to Lakewood — At Gillett

Date: 02 03 1912
Description: On the way to Lakewood, the horse-drawn sleigh stops in Gillett for a picnic lunch. Caption reads: "Mr. Chase, Miss Stuart, Miss Le Tourneaux (sp?), Mrs. W...
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Toboggan Slide in Backyard

Date: 02 06 1914
Description: 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 ...
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Looking Down the Toboggan Slide

Date: 02 06 1914
Description: 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.

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