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Oconto County Historical Museum

Date: 1952
Description: Oconto County Historical Museum.
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High School

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Description: View across lawn toward a high school, with a group of three men standing outside to the right. The school features a dome, arched doorways and windows, an...
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Cottages at Underwood Point

Date: 1870
Description: View toward three cottages along the tree-lined shore of Kelly Lake at Underwood Point. Small docks with boats are along the shoreline. A wooden bench with...
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People Posing in front of House

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Description: Photographic postcard of a group of adults posing in front of a brick house. The house has a patterned design on the exterior. Below the peak of the roof, ...
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Greetings from Hayes

Date: 1961
Description: Color illustration of a road with roadside flowers and fall foliage in the trees. Buildings are in the distance. Caption reads: "Greetings from Hayes, Haye...
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Beyer Home and Museum

Date: 1972
Description: View across front lawn towards the historic Beyer Home. The front porch wraps around the side of the house to the left, there is a three-story tower room a...
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Jeannette, Harriet, and Margaret Playing Together

Date: 1897
Description: Cousins Jeannette Holt (left), Harriet Stroh (center), and Margaret (right) Stroh are playing in the backyard of the Holt home. W.A. Holt is crouching down...
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In the Holt Family Backyard

Date: 1897
Description: Cousins Jeannette Holt (left) and either Harriet or Margaret Stroh (right) are playing in the backyard under the supervision of grandmother Mary Mathilda A...
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Jeannette Holt Pulling a Toy Wooden Wagon

Date: 1897
Description: Jeannette Holt is pulling a toy wooden wagon across the lawn in her backyard while looking over her shoulder back towards the camera. In the far background...
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Sitting under the Canopy in Oconto

Date: 1899
Description: Shaded by a striped canopy, three women are sitting together and smiling in the Holt family backyard. Wearing aprons, the woman on the left and the woman w...
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Children's Fourth of July Parade

Date: 1902
Description: A group of children are parading down the street on the Fourth of July. The drummer is leading the way. Two girls and one boy are pulling carts with a chil...
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Home Sweet Home Oconto

Date: 1897
Description: Front view of the two-story Queen Anne style home where Lucy and W.A. Holt lived together after their marriage in 1895. The address is 523 Main Street, Oco...
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The Wedding of Ethel M. Cecil and Werner W. Duecker

Date: 06 18 1919
Description: Bride Ethel M. Cecil and groom Werner W. Duecker are standing with their wedding party, family and friends. Rev E.W. Wright officiated. The Cecil family h...
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Lucy and W.A. Holt Standing Together Outside

Date: 1918
Description: Lucy and W.A. Holt, wife and husband, are looking at each other while standing on the lawn with trees, shrubs, and a building in the background. Lucy Holt ...
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Aunt May and Eleanor

Date: 09 1902
Description: Minnie May Rumsey is sitting on a swing with niece Eleanor in her lap. There are trees in the background.
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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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The Quartette

Date: 11 1905
Description: Donald Holt, age 4, is being carried by Alfred Holt and Jeannette Holt. This was the day that Donald Holt had his curls cut. Eleanor Holt is standing next ...
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Baby Douglas Holt DeWitt on W.A. Holt's Knee

Date: 1928
Description: Baby Douglas Holt DeWitt is on Grandpa W.A. Holt's knees. Sitting on the picnic blanket and looking at Douglas are {Unknown} (l) and Eleanor Holt DeWitt (r...
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Eleanor Holt and Friends

Date: 1910
Description: Looking at the camera, Eleanor Holt and three girlfriends are lying on their stomachs in a yard. Caption reads: "Margaret Doran, Eleanor H, Kathlene Doran,...
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Return of Company M — 32nd Red Arrow Boys

Date: 05 16 1919
Description: View across lawn towards the parade down Main Street, celebrating the return of the 32nd Infantry Division, Company M after WWI. A car is in the parade, fo...

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