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|By Piram Manickam, Subrahmanya SV, S Sangeetha
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A component is a reusable software entity that is developed and deployed independently. Component based software development has many architectural advantages. In the previous article Componentizing a Monolithic Application in Java, we learnt the need for componentizing applications for getting the benefits of reusability and modularity. In this article let us look at how multi layered application can be componentized. We take the example of a multi-layered POS (Point-Of-Sale) application and understand how the application can be componentized at various layers like presentation, business and persistence layers.
Point of Sale - An Example Application
Consider a Point-of-Sale (POS) application meant for tracking orders and payments in a restaurant. The POS is used to track the tables being occupied by the guests, orders being made from various tables, and to print bills. Apart from these operational features, the POS application can also be used for restaurant administration. Total number of tables in the restaurant, list of foods sold in the restaurant, their prices, and the associated tax rates can be managed. The use cases to be supported by the POS application are described in brief below:
- Guests Check-in - This use case is invoked by the waiters when new guests arrive at the restaurant. POS displays a list of empty tables, and the waiter chooses an empty table and seats the guests in that table.
- Place Order - When guests from a table order for food, waiter invokes this use case. POS prompts the waiter for the table number, food item, and quantity ordered. POS consolidates and maintains orders against each table.
- Modify Order - Waiter can modify the quantity of any order already placed.
- Cancel Order - Waiter can cancel any order already placed.
- Pay Bill - Waiter invokes this use case to print the bill and collect payment for all items ordered from a table.
- Guests Check-out - When guests from a table leave, waiter invokes this usecase to mark the table as empty.
- Collections Report - At any point of time, the POS user can look at all the past payments collected.
Existing Implementation of POS
The existing implementation of POS uses a typical layered architecture pattern consisting of presentation layer, business layer, and data layer. The layered architecture is supported by the MVC (Model-View-Controller) design pattern. In the MVC paradigm, Model is responsible to capture real world business information through software objects. View is responsible to present the business information captured by Model visually for human consumption. Controller is responsible to handle user inputs and mediate between View and Model.
Figure 1 - Existing POS Application Architecture
Figure 2 - Objects in POS Application Layers
In the layered architecture of POS, Views and Controllers belong to the Presentation layer. Information exchange across the layer borders is enabled by the Model objects carrying business domain data. The multiple layers of POS are shown in Figure 1. The arrow directions indicate the control flow, or in other words, direction of invocation across layers. Figure 2 expands on Figure 1 and provides the list of objects present in each layer.
Model Objects
Model objects carry the business domain relevant information. In the restaurant business domain, we have Food, Table, Order, Bill, and TableConfig model objects. In addition, there is a FoodCategory that each Food belongs to, an OrderItem, a collection of which makes up an order, and a BillLineItem, a collection of which belongs to a Bill.
Figure 3 - Model Objects
All the model objects are presented in Figure 3. Food object is responsible for carrying information such as food name, price, tax rate, and the food category. The table object is responsible for storing the table number and the status on whether the table is occupied or empty. If the table is occupied, the table stores an Order object associated with the table. The Order object captures items ordered from the table. Each OrderItem is an order for multiple quantities of a food item. The payment toward all the items ordered from a table is captured and persisted in the form of a Bill object. Each OrderItem in Order has a corresponding BillLineItem in the Bill.
Presentation Layer
The presentation is based on a console-based UI in the current POS implementation. The presentation layer consists of Views and Controllers. Each UI view is responsible for showing one screen to the user and collecting input from the user interactively. The controller objects are responsible for processing the input gathered by the UI view objects. In addition, the controllers also control the UI screen flow - they direct the next UI screen to be shown after each screen based on user input. To process the input given by the users, the controller objects depend on business objects in the Business Layer.
Business Layer
The business layer contains objects that implement the business logic rules. The controllers from the presentation layer make use of the services offered by this layer. There are four business objects in the business layer, which are presented below:
- FoodBiz - FoodBiz is responsible for business logic associated with food creation, modification, and categorization.
- OrderBiz - It implements all the business logic associated with maintaining orders placed by guests in different tables, addition and modification of order items, and cancellation of ordered items.
- TableBiz - It is responsible for maintaining total number of tables based on configuration, blocking and releasing tables based on guests check-in and checkout.
- BillBiz - This object is responsible for printing bill, and persisting bill details for future reference.
Business objects that need to persist the model data objects depend on the persistence layer.
Persistence Layer
The persistence layer is responsible for transfering the state information stored in the model objects to a persistent storage and for retrieving it back to in-memory objects. This layer consists of Data Access Objects (DAO). DAO interfaces are defined for TableConfig, Food, and Bill objects. Concrete DAO objects implement these interfaces specific to the database used. The example code that accompanies this article uses Db4o database. Each of the generic DAO is implemented by the Db4o specific concrete DAO object.
Having analyzed the existing application in depth, which provides all the required functionalities, why should we componentize this application? Componentization in general helps in two different endeavors: (i) improve maintainability and (ii) extract reusable parts for storage and future reuse.
Let's investigate the maintainability aspect. Assume that there is a new business rule imposed in the POS application. The POS is supposed to charge a gratuity of 15% for any guest group consisting of eight or more members. On analysis of the existing application architecture, the BillBiz is the right object that can shoulder this new responsibility, because BillBiz implements the business logic that calculates the Bill amount. The BillBiz class diagram is presented in Figure 4.
Figure 4 - BillBiz Class Diagram
The BillBiz object has a payBill(Table table):Bill method. This method implements the business logic for billing. This method can be modified to accommodate the gratuity-related business change. In addition to this change, the calculated gratuity for each bill needs to be captured in some model object and persisted. The PayBillUI class in the presentation layer also needs to be changed to display the gratuity amount.
If we make these changes in the existing application as is, we need to recompile and redeploy the whole application, even though the application has a layered architecture. This is because these layers are logical and not physical. Moreover, to isolate the impact of the new business requirement, we need to isolate the Billing functionality from other functionality such as Order Management and Food Management functionality. Let's see how componentization can address this maintenance issue.
Componentized POS Application
Let's split the business layer of the POS into four different components as shown in Figure 5. By splitting the application into different components, the Billing responsibility is isolated into the Bill component.
Figure 5 - Functional Componentization of POS
In the componentized structure in Figure 5, when a new business rule for Billing is required, the Bill component can be replaced with a new Bill component without affecting rest of the application. In order to achieve the component structure proposed in Figure 6, we package the objects from the original implementation into different component packages as per Table 1.
Business & Data
Business & Data
Business & Data
Business & Data
Table 1 - Mapping of New Components to Old Objects and Layers
As a general pattern, it can be observed that each UI component consists of necessary view and controller objects. Each business component consists of necessary business objects and DAO objects for persistence. Apart from these components, the objects from the Model are packaged together as an object library, which is referred by each of these components. The objects inside the Model library are listed in Table 2. These are the same model objects that were presented in Figure 3.
Model Object Library
Table 2 - Objects inside the Model Object library
Once we repackage the objects from the existing implementation into components as discussed above, we get component architecture for the POS application as shown in Figure 7. In the diagram the connector with a lollipop and a receptacle represents a component assembly between two components. In a component assembly, one component exposes a service and another component consumes that service. For example, the Table component exposes TableBiz service which is consumed by all the other components.
Figure 6 - Functional Componentization of POS
Figure 8 provides an expanded view of Figure 7, providing inside details of each component.
Figure 7 - Inside individual component
Replacing a Bill Component
As discussed earlier, we have a business rule change request that requires an additional gratuity amount to be charged to those guest groups whose size is eight or larger. We had reasoned in the earlier analysis that the business logic change can be implemented in the BillBiz class in the Bill component, in the payBill() method. Part of the code from this method is presented in Figure 8.
Figure 8 - Code Snippet from payBill(Table table):Bill method of BillBiz
As can be seen from the code snippet in Figure 8, the payBill() method obtains the Order object associated with the Table for which the Bill has to be generated. For each OrderItem in the Order, a BillLineItem is generated. For each BillLineItem, the base price, tax, and total price are calculated. All BillLineItems are kept in a collection that becomes part of the generated Bill object. The Bill object also has a total base price, total tax, and total payable amount. These values are calculated as sums of corresponding price components of the constituent bill line items. In the business logic change request, the total price of the bill should have an additional component called gratuity, if the number of guests is equal to or more than 8.
The current total price of the bill is given by:
Total Price = Base Price + Tax
With the introduction of gratutity, this would have to be changed to
Total Price = Base Price + Tax + Gratuity
Gratuity = 0.15 * Base Price (if number of guests >=8)
= 0 (otherwise)
The payBill() method code snippet shown in Figure 8 can be modified to accommodate the above change. However, we need to capture the new gratuity element in the model objects. In order to give least interference to other components, we introduce a new model object called as Gratuity. This object is responsible for storing the gratuityAmount and the Bill object to which the gratuityAmount is applicable. The class diagram of Gratuity is presented below.
Figure 9 - Gratuity Object in the Model
We shall call the modified Bill component as Bill2, and the modified BillUI component as BillUI2. The modified payBill method that implements the addition of a gratuity component to the bill is shown in Figure 10.
Figure 10 - Modified Code Snippet from payBill(Table table):Bill method of BillBiz
As can be seen in Figure 8 and Figure 10, the new code has created a Gratuity object if the number of guests is equal to or more than eight. It has also added a necessary amount to the total amount in the Bill object. The BillUI2 component would retrieve the Gratuity object associated with the bill and display the gratuity amount if it is non-zero. To facilitate this retrieval, a new method called getGratuityForBill() is added to BillBiz class in the Bill2 component. The modified BillBiz class is shown in Figure 11.
Figure 11 - Modified BillBiz Class in Bill2 Component
We reassemble the POS application by substituting Bill and BillUI components with the Bill2 and BillUI2 components. Of course, the new Model object library is to be used. With these changes, the component architecture of the application is presented in Figure 12.
Figure 12 - Modified Component Architecture of POS Application
At any point, the Bill2 and BillUI2 components can be replaced with the old Bill and BillUI components to change the behavior of the application back to the old. Thus evolution of the application with the insertion and removal of new functionalities can be done by changing components in the application assembly without changing the application code.
Componentization provides many benefits. In this article we demonstrated how a multi-layered POS application can be componentized. One of the important properties of a component is its pluggable nature. In the POS example, we saw how componentization facilitates modularity and easy maintenance through asimple replacement of pluggable components.
The authors would like to sincerely thank Anupama Nithyanand for her support and Nitin KL for his valuable suggestions and reviewing this article. Authors are indebted to Soumya Bardhan, Shikhar Johari and Vishal Verma for helping in the development and testing efforts of the sample application.
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Once you've prepared a ASP.NET page for printing by replacing any of the ASP.NET controls style properties with references to actual CSS classes, the next step is to create links to additional style sheet files. The link element, which is the part of the HTML language, you use the link HTML element to link an HTML page to an external style sheet. For this demonstration I'm working in the file Printformat.aspx. In this file the GridView control has its styles already replaced with CSS class declarations, and these CSS class declarations are referring to classes that are actually defined in the external style sheet file, Styles.css. And the link element within the head section of the page is where that join happens.
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One man's annual countdown of the biggest miscreants, jerks, psychos, losers, mental defectives, morons, habitual criminal offenders, dirtbags and nitwits of the year:
10. The Miami Heat
Not that anyone noticed, but the NBA had a lockout this year. And if you'd been paying attention (note: I wasn't) you'd know that no one personified the cause of the thing as much as LeBron James, Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade. It's funny, but it turns out that guys who shell out hundreds of millions of dollars to buy a business don't feel like having their millionaire employees dictate who they will and will not play alongside. Apparently they'd like to pick their rosters, and they were willing to stay out of business to keep that right. Go figure. Not that NBA owners are all the most sympathetic figures to begin with, but even Mark Cuban (a guy I happen to like; a self-made billionaire who likes to be the turd in the NBA's punchbowl can drink from my canteen anytime) was America's Sweetheart in the NBA finals compared to these insufferable jerks. Hell, Kim Jong Il could've owned the Mavs and we would've been rooting them. The Heat's gag job in the series was mourned nowhere outside of South Beach.
9. Stevie Williams
After 12 years on Tiger Woods' bag (get your mind out of the gutter), Williams was fired back in July. He did not take it well, ripping Woods in interviews with everyone from the Golf Channel to the New Zealand press to Dr. Oz to complain about the unfairness of it all. The fact that he pocketed 10 percent of Tiger's winnings all those years for saying "Hit the 3-wood" apparently not raining on his Pity Party. When his new boss, Adam Scott, won the prestigious and historic Bridgestone, Williams called it the best win of his career, then capped off the year with some racist comments. To quote the great Lou Loomis from "Caddyshack," "You want to be out a job, you want to be replaced by golf carts … keep it up."
8. The college bowls
Sports Illustrated did a billion-word expose on the is college football bowl system and told us what we already knew: It's a traveshamockery that's keeping the American sports fan from having something we all want. But the piece threw open the shower curtain and exposed what an abomination it really is. The CEOs of these things make upwards of $500,000 to run these things. That is, to put on one football game a year. Between two teams that are playing virtually for nothing. In fact, that lose money on the deal in almost every case. The rest of the year these one percent of one-percenters schmooze sponsors, go on junkets and golf. Or in the case of Fiesta Bowl robber baron John Junker, blow their expense account at strip bars. Talk about good work if you can get it. Enjoy the Beef O' Brady's Bowl everybody!
7. Kardashian husbands
If there's one thing I hate about American civilization in the 21st century it's the Kardashians. I'm not exaggerating. Riddle me this: What do they put on their tax returns in the box marked "Occupation?" What? What is it they do exactly? I mean, at least when cameras followed Ozzy Osbourne around it was because he had once held a job of note. The Kardashians are famous because Kim once released a sex tape. Oops! I meant to say it was "leaked." Not a celebrity sex tape mind you, because no one had ever heard of her, but within hours she was more famous than Tom Brady. Or Beef O' Brady. Then it was the whole rotten, useless, contributing-nothing-to-society clan. Now they've found our most bland, uninteresting professional athletes and dragged them into the cult. Kris Humphries took part in a sham "celebrity wedding" to Kim that was as authentic as the Stu-Jade nuptials in "The Hangover." Lamar Odom married … one of the other ones. Then when he got traded from LA to Dallas, made a public spectacle of himself, crying and whining about it. Not because he wouldn't want to play for the world champs, but because he knew his days as a cuckolded "reality" show "star" were over.
I've put him on this list before for the crimes of quitting on his team and comparing his situation to "slavery" days after cashing a $20 million bonus check. This year his offenses aren't nearly that bad, but what he did, he did to the Patriots so they're 100 times worse. After saying and doing all the right things, he made minimal effort on the field and in practice. Given every opportunity to contribute, he finished his six-game Pats career with three tackles, which ties him with BenJarvus Green-Ellis, and zero sacks, which puts him a tie with me, you and 7 billion other people. If you can't be redeemed by Bill Belichick, you're unredeemable. Warren Sapp summed him up best: "Turd."
5. The New York Jets
Admittedly, the competition for NFL Team Guilty of Most Buffoonery is a fierce one. And call me a shameless Patriots partisan, but I've given the edge to the Jests. No team has ever been more hypersensitive to shows of disrespect (I'm really start to hate that word) while showing any less respect for others than Shrex Ryan's mouthy minions. In January they were mortally offended by Wes Welker's goofy puns about their coach's bizarre foot fetish. Then in the playoff game did more posing and dancing than the complete series DVD boxed set of Glee. Afterwards Bart Scott ran to the first microphone he could find to spit on the Pats' grave. The rest of the year was the usual incessant Jets yappin' about (altogether now) "going to two straight AFC Championship games," like that's now the gold standard for excellence. When Stevie Johnson of the Bills imitated Plaxico Burress shooting himself plaxidentally, the Jets railed about how classless it was. Including wideout Santonio Holmes who got flagged for an excessive celebration just last week. With his team down by 18 points. You might say I'm still bitter about the playoff loss. And you'd be right. But that doesn't make them any less buffoony.
4. Red Sox "team sources"
You'd think two championships and the undisputed title of Best Manager in team history … or even basic human decency… would've earned Terry Francona a nice pat on the ass on his way out the door. Instead he got a kick. Or better yet, a poison dart to the neck from an anonymous assassin. See, "according to team sources" he wasn't an intelligent, hard-working, articulate guy who treated everyone with dignity. In reality, he was a philandering, pill-popping nutjob who spent the whole year hopped up on goofballs. Yup, the collapse was all his fault, so come back to Fenway next year and don't forget to order your $300 commemorative 100th anniversary brick. Good thing no one from management was involved in planting this story though. Best of luck, Bobby Valentine. You're next.
3. Vancouver
The team and the city. The Canucks and the canucks. The team didn't wrap itself in any glory. Alex Burrows bit Patrice Bergeron's finger. Roberto Luongo whined about Tim Thomas not "pumping his tires." The Sedins proved to be the most loathsome, creepy Ginger twins this side of those two ghosts on "American Horror Story." Oh, and while Boston celebrated victory with like seven arrests (which is probably 10 percent of an average night in the city), Vancouverians damn near burned their place to the ground. Seriously, they did dozens of dollars worth of damage (in Canadian money). Oh, wait. It was all done by "outsiders." Of course. Nevermind.
2. The Red Sox "Biggest Losers"
My whole life I've locked horns with older guys who take a sick, perverse pleasure in rooting against the Sox. I've never understood it, but I chalk it up to them growing up when the Sox truly were the unlikable, lazy, overpaid fat cats they love to talk about. Still, I never understood how you can be so jaded you root against your hometown team. Until about the third week of September, this year. Then I became one of them. The 2011 Sox pushed me over to the Dark Side. Biggest Losers in that they blew the biggest September playoff lead ever. Biggest Losers in that by the end they looked like weight loss game show contestants. John Lackey introduced them to the joys of shotgunning Popeye's chicken gravy with a beer chaser. Every time Josh Beckett went into the stretch he had to decide whether to place his hands above or below his frum.* Even poor beloved Jon Lester joined them, and together the top of the Sox rotation looked like The Klumps. I can forgive them for many things, but not making me hate them like I'm a cranky 80-year-old.
1. Penn State
Not "some at Penn State." Not just Jerry Sandusky. Everyone. The whole university, from the president down to those ridiculous, misguided nitwits who rioted over Joe Paterno's firing. And mainly the symbol of this whole sordid, outrageous mess, JoePa. He isn't a lovable old grandpa. He's an enabling, duplicitous co-conspirator, worried about his own image over the well-being of needy kids. Let the dirtbag Sandusky run wild like a Libertine. The Marquis de Pa. Not one person mentioned in all these reports ever once stood up and said "You were doing WHAT to boys in the shower?! What the hell is wrong with you?! I'm calling the cops this instant you sick bleep!!!" If one did, I'd spare him/ her. Instead the whole twisted bunch takes this year's top spot in a walk away.
So there you have it. It was not an easy list to pare down this year. But to all the usual suspects who didn't make it -- A-Rod, Kobe, Dwight Howard, James Harrison, Bill Polian, the Montreal Canadiwns -- the balloting for 2012 begins in two weeks. Get busy.
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Andy Brickley joined the show to talk about David Pastrnak's first game, the offensive struggles, and Milan Lucic playing with the Swedes.
Rick Pitino had some curious comments after a blowout victory. Richard Sherman takes on the NFL Media policies. Christian talks about a pill for farts.
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Mikey remixes Billy Joel "Movin Out" in honor of the Patriots playing the Green Bay Packers
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The guys previewed the upcoming Packers Patriots game and discussed the media's latest tweet beef.
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Discussion in 'New Jersey' started by Padawan915, Jan 11, 2003.
These names for the FF were suggested at the first meeting today by the members attending. You may suggest other names by choosing "Other."
I will go with NJ Order personally b/c it has a very Star Warsy feel to it and is very cool.
Everyone can vote upon this thread for the name suggestions.
I agree. I like the New Jersey Order the best out of all of them. I guess I'm a little partial because it was my suggestion.
I am on nobodys side because nobody is on my side.
Woah! What about the Jersey Jedi, that was our original plan like a year ago.
I guess I missed out on the meeting- the Blueclaws called me in for a 7 hour shift. I would vote for the Order though, I guess, as long as it hasn't been taken.
I too, after much thought last night, will go with the NJO
New Jersey Order seems to be the overwhelming choice, and also, mine.
OK, it looks like NJ Order is the one. I'll let strawbary know when I talk to her again.
I am on nobodys side because nobody is on my side.
I don't know GOA, I think we should wait on telling strawbary until more people vote. I say we let the people who didn't come to the meeting but were going to come and vote. Just hold off until Wednesday.
good thinking...we did add up the people that did not come...and it was totaled at 10.
I'll go with NJO as well, but only because it sounds the best of the ones listed. I'm not so great with titles of groups, but stories on the other hand I enjoy titling alot.
Anyway, I was one that wanted to come to the meeting but didn't. Thanks.
New Jersey Order - New Jedi Order ........NJO ...............Simply perfect!! Great title. NJO all the way for me too!


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Fifteen years of work by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's National Ignition Facility (NIF) team paid off on July 5 with a historic record-breaking laser shot. The NIF laser system of 192 beams delivered more than 500 trillion watts (terawatts or TW) of peak power and 1.85 megajoules (MJ) of ultraviolet laser light to its target. Five hundred terawatts is 1,000 times more power than the United States uses at any instant in time, and 1.85 megajoules of energy is about 100 times what any other laser regularly produces today.
The release was hardly coincidental. It came just months ago, in hopes of swaying Congress, which is presently deciding whether to sustain funding for the troubled project.
Pre-amplifiers are pictured pumping up the power to the LLNL's record-setting laser. But is all that power being wasted on pipe dreams? [Image Source: LLNL]
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But Mr. Sweet counters, "Richard Garwin, for decades the most highly regarded independent specialist on nuclear weaponry in the United States, told IEEE Spectrum six years ago that it would be 'a mistake to assume that NIF experiments are going to be directly relevant to weapons testing. The temperatures in the NIF chamber are much lower than they are in actual nuclear weapons, and the amounts of material being tested are much smaller.'"
He adds, "For decades the joke about magnetic confinement fusion--much the more plausible approach to harnessing the energy of the sun--is that the technology is always 20 years away. So when will inertial confinement fusion be delivering commercial electricity? That one is easy. Never."
Congress is debating whether to scrap the NIF. [Image Source: LLNL]
It sounds like there's some serious credibility question regarding the project's security and energy claims. That said, there might be some merit to the project, even if Mr. Sweet is at least partially right.
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There isn't enough money to do everything anymore. Thank your mothers and fathers and grand parents for depleting it mostly without even knowing it.
Yes, you could argue endlessly about how one program is favorable over another or that its 'indespensible'. In fact, I wager to veture a guess that all currently funded projects are considered indespensible to someone.
The problem is, you either have the money to do it or you don't. It's simple in that sense.
Some things simply cannot be afforded anymore. I don't necessarily have an opinion on this specific project, but it sure doesn't sound a hell of a whole lot of useful seeing as how it is in the long-term phase already and has no promise or projection of even benefitting mankind in any meaningful way in the next 50 years even.
People are going to have to accept the fact that American life has changed and you are being politely nudgeed into accepting that and will continue to be over the next decade or two.
We just don't have a blank check anymore. Some things will simply need to stop.
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Description: View of a dark forest with birch trees and stumps in the foreground. The forest is near the west harbor of Washington Island.
Description: Lloyd Lehman stands in the open doorway of his small cabin on Washington Island. This cabin is one of a number of former summer camp buildings.
Description: View of a forest interior as seen from West Harbor Road. A large variety of vegetation grows within the forest.
Description: View of a thick forest interior as seen from West Harber[sic] Road.
Description: View over fishing boat of Rock Island, as seen from Jackson Harbor.
Date: 1964-10-19 ca.
Description: Cedar tree on shoreline looking out to an old pier over pilings and rocks. There is a building or boathouse on it. This is a former fishing settlement west...
Date: 1925 ca.
Description: Elementary school on Washington Island.
Description: Washington Island, including buildings, automobiles, and a large ship.
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