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Filter: COLLECTION_NAME of Lucy Holt photo albums, 1895-1936
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| Date: | 07 04 1913 |
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| Description: | Civil War veteran Captain Israel Parsons Rumsey, the father of the photographer, is sitting on a horse in front of his home. A large American flag, hanging... |
| Date: | 08 22 1913 |
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| Description: | An informal group portrait of some of the Holt and Stroh cousins, along with Uncle Wallace Rumsey. Jeannette Holt and Wallace Rumsey are holding metal milk... |
| Date: | 02 06 1914 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 02 06 1914 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 08 1919 |
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| Description: | A group of eight swimmers are hanging out together at the Holt pier on Archibald Lake. A girl in the foreground is floating in a wash tub. The young men ar... |
| Date: | 06 04 1921 |
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| Description: | Mr. Bell is standing in a boat, holding a long pole. Caption reads: "Mr. Bell." |
| Date: | 07 1922 |
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| Description: | A boy and girl are swinging together with a lake in background. Page description reads: "Miss McDonald's Shack." |
| Date: | 08 21 1922 |
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| Description: | W.A. Holt and three of his adult children are picnicking under birch trees on the shore of Archibald Lake. From left to right: Jeannette Holt, wearing f... |
| Date: | 08 1922 |
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| Description: | Two young men are playing around on the water on two rafts. |
| Date: | 08 1922 |
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| Description: | The person in midair, possibly David Rumsey, is diving from a height of 21 feet into Lake Michigamme. The log boathouse and American flag are in the foregr... |
| Date: | 08 1922 |
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| Description: | The diver, possibly David Rumsey, is doing a handstand on the end of the diving board. Archibald Lake is in the background. |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | View of the Archibald Lake shoreline from a small wooden boat. |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Peter DeWitt and a friend or cousin are sitting on the sand beach near logs. A bird is perched nearby on a wooden pier. |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | A woman standing on a shoreline is showing the fish she caught on the hook with the cane pole. A wooden canoe is beached beside her on the sand. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Eunice Blanchard is hanging from the horizontal bar in the yard. A man, (partially out of frame) possibly her father, is watching her play. |
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