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    Oscar Olson (left) and "Ferguson" on cooking duty.

    Middle Island Life Saving Station crewmen sitting atop a sailboat at dock.

    Middle Island Life Saving Crew sitting in front of lifeboat building.

    Middle Island Life Saving Crew on lifeboat.

    Two Middle Island Life Saving Station crewmen with three young woman in a building on the island.

    Middle Island Life Saving Station Surfman #6 George Hartlep with crew mate carrying the catch of the day.

    Six Middle Island Coast Guard crewmen lined up in front of surfboat building.

    Lillian Hartlep, right, with daughter Esther, and two unidentified people aboard a small sailboat docked at Middle Island.

    Life Saving crew "lounging" outside surfboat building on Middle Island.

    U.S. Life Saving surfman on Middle Island.

    1916 date written on image would have to be incorrect as building says U.S. Life Boat Station. 1916, it was Coast Guard.

    Left to right: Oscar Olson, Lois Olson, Carl Olson, Hulda Olson Hauck, Unknown

    Middle Island photographs (*scans from glass-plate negatives) were taken by George Hartlep, Esther’s father. Collection donated by Marilyn Thom (daughter) in 2007. The Middle Island Life-Saving Stati