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The House at Black Point

Date: 1930
Description: View looking up hill, from near the shore of Geneva Lake, towards the main house at Black Point. Doors facing the lake on the first and second floors open ...
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The "Lorely"

Date: 1910
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...
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The Gas House

Date: 04 21 1929
Description: A small, simple wood frame building stands along the brick walkway near the shore of Geneva Lake at Black Point. There is lattice trim under the eaves on t...
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Boats and Pickup

Date: 04 28 1929
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.
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Lake Geneva Auto Station

Date: 06 02 1928
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...
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Lake Geneva Auto Station

Date: 06 02 1928
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...
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Studebaker in Front of Cottage

Date: 1917
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 ...
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Sailing on Geneva Lake

Date: 1945
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...
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Holiday Home

Date: 1950
Description: View across lawn towards a car parked in front of the main building at Holiday Home Camp. The rambling wood frame building has several sets of stairs leadi...
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Blue Bird Cottage

Date: 1945
Description: A simple wood frame cottage is built into the slope of the hill above Geneva Lake at Holiday Home Camp. A second building is seen in the background.
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Alma Schmidt Petersen

Date: 1980
Description: Alma Schmidt Petersen, owner of Black Point Estate, poses seated in a green wicker chair on the porch of the main house. Standing behind her on the left an...
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Horse-Drawn Carriage at Black Point

Date: 1980
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...
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Children at the Playhouse

Date: 1905
Description: Ernst Schmidt poses in the doorway of the playhouse on the grounds at Black Point Estate. He is wearing an exotic native American style costume adorned wit...
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The Arthur Kaye

Date: 1898
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...
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William O. Petersen

Date: 06 1981
Description: William O. Petersen, right, poses with his wife, Jane Browne Petersen, and cousin Ernst Schmidt Reese. Jane holds a package of cucumber seeds and a hand cu...
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Boathouse

Date: 1935
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...
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Tour Hostesses

Date: 07 31 1969
Description: Left to right, Zika Bakieff Petersen, Gladys Zimmerman, and Alma Schmidt Petersen pose with the dog, Bamboo, on the porch at Black Point Estate. The three ...
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Conrad Seipp Jr. in Egypt

Date: 01 1909
Description: Three men in western dress riding camels pose with their Egyptian guides in front of the Sphinx at the Giza necropolis, with the Cheops pyramid in the back...
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Palmer Mansion

Date: 1925
Description: View from across street towards a worker shoveling a sidewalk in front of the Potter Palmer mansion on North Lake Shore Drive. The three-story granite face...
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William F. and Conrad Petersen

Date: 1926
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.

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