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| Date: | 07 04 1928 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of the motor launch "Nepenthe," owned by Dr. Otto L. Schmidt, resting at the pier at Black Point on Geneva Lake. The boat is "dressed" ... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Dr. Otto L. Schmidt, far left, is helmsman for the "Senta," sailing with a crew of three on Geneva Lake. Dr. Schmidt was the husband of Emma Seipp Schmidt,... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View across water of Dr. Otto L. Schmidt, second from right, sitting at the helm of the "Senta," with a crew of four. Dr. Schmidt was married to Emma Seipp... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View across water towards the steam launch "Cygnet" with enclosed cabin and smokestack. The "Cygnet" belonged to H.A. Beidler, who developed Cedar Point ne... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Elevated view across water of sailboats on Geneva Lake. There are people on a boat with an outboard motor in the foreground. The scalloped edge of an awnin... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A young man in the foreground, possibly Ernst Schmidt, stands looking out at sailboats on Geneva Lake. In the foreground on the left a woman is on a sailbo... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elsa Seipp Madlener, center, poses with her husband Albert, right, and another man, possibly Ed Daily, the engineer of the steam launch "Lorely." A handwri... |
| Date: | 04 28 1929 |
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| Description: | A pickup truck parked on the brick drive near the main house at Black Point Estate. Two boats rest on a trailer parked in front of the truck. |
| Date: | 06 02 1928 |
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| Description: | View across street towards a convertible automobile with a fender-mounted spare tire parked in front of the Lake Geneva Auto Station on the south side of t... |
| Date: | 06 02 1928 |
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| Description: | View across street towards a convertible automobile with a fender-mounted spare tire parked in front of the Lake Geneva Auto Station on the south side of M... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | A Studebaker automobile is parked on the brick drive in front of the 1905 cottage at Black Point Estate. The side and front porches on the first floor are ... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Alma Schmidt Petersen controls the sheets on a small sailboat. Her husband, William F. Petersen, sits aft. The child between them is unidentified. The sail... |
| Date: | 1980 |
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| Description: | View from lawn of a man holding the harness of a team of two horses hitched to an open carriage on the brick drive at Black Point. A large group looks on f... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | View across water towards men and women in fine clothes posing on the deck of the steamer Arthur Kaye, which is docked at a pier on Geneva Lake. Nam... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | View from end of pier towards three boys posing in the water of Geneva Lake in front of the boathouse at Black Point Estate. A woman observes from the narr... |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | William F. Petersen holds his son Conrad in the waters of Geneva Lake off the shore of Black Point. There are sailboats in the background. |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Conrad Petersen steps off the pier onto the shore at Black Point Estate. A small boat is moored to the shore in the background under a tree trunk leaning ... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | View across water towards the Black Point sailing on Geneva Lake. Yerkes Observatory is in the far background. |
| Date: | 09 05 1915 |
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| Description: | View across water towards the Senta, owned and skipped by Dr. Otto Schmidt, on Lake Geneva near the Lake Geneva Yacht Club just before the start of ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Henry Bartholomay Jr., right, and his son Henry Conrad Bartholomay fish on the pier at Black Point. The steamer Loreley is anchored offshore on he l... |
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