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Digging for Bait at the Siebeneichen Boathouse

Collection: Queens Memory Collection at the Archives at Queens Library
Date: 1926 Material: Black and white photographs Dimension: 5.8 x 3.4 inches; 600 dpi
Creator: Pamela Hansen Identifier: aql:21191 qmp-ph-000007 qmp-ph-000007-0.tif

Description: Digging for bait at the beach. This family traditionally dug for bait and did not purchase bait even later in life when bait stores became more popular. Louisa M. Siebeneichen (center), Margaret Siebeneichen (left) and their nephew Charlie Fitzgerald, in his bathing suit.; [Hand written on back of photograph] It did not look so good but it was a place of peace care-free and happy for all who came to rest a while + live near God at "Meadow Camp." Summer 1926 Fare Well to a memory.

Collection : aql:13844

Creator : Pamela Hansen

Date : 1926

Summary/Description : Digging for bait at the beach. This family traditionally dug for bait and did not purchase bait even later in life when bait stores became more popular. Louisa M. Siebeneichen (center), Margaret Siebeneichen (left) and their nephew Charlie Fitzgerald, in his bathing suit.; [Hand written on back of photograph] It did not look so good but it was a place of peace care-free and happy for all who came to rest a while + live near God at "Meadow Camp." Summer 1926 Fare Well to a memory.

Subject : Swimming; Boathouses

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Coverage : Hook Creek, Queens, NY Hook Creek (New York, N.Y.) Queens (New York, N.Y.) Jamaica Bay (N.Y.)

Type : Digital image, photograph

Format : Black and white photographs; 5.8 x 3.4 inches; 600 dpi

Identifier : aql:21191 qmp-ph-000007 qmp-ph-000007-0.tif

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Swimming; Boathouses
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