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| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View across street toward a hotel and restaurant on a tree-lined street. Caption reads: "Lakeview Inn, Lake Geneva, Wis." |
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| Description: | Illustrated color postcard of the front of Hotel Geneva. A marina is in the foreground. Flowering bushes are along the lakeshore. Caption reads: "Hotel Gen... |
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| Description: | View along shore path at Lake Geneva. An electric railroad stop is behind the trees. Rowboats, canoes and an excursion boat are lined up along the beach an... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Hand-colored postcard view down pier towards a lakeside hotel. Tourists are standing on the pier, and are also on the lawn. A sign at the shoreline framing... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Hand-colored postcard view from shoreline towards tourists embarking on an excursion boat; some of the people are on the boat, and others are standing on t... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view of young people playing croquet on a court surrounded by trees. Men and women are standing on the right watching. There are auto... |
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| Description: | A group of ski instructors assembled for an outdoor group portrait. Text on reverse reads: "Every year thousands of students learn to ski in lessons fro... |
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| Description: | Hand-colored postcard view down lakeside road with two automobiles approaching. A long pier on the lake is in the background. Caption reads: "Lake Shore Dr... |
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| Description: | View along shore path at Lake Geneva. Caption reads: "Shore Path Encircling Lake — Lake Geneva (Near Chicago)." |
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| Description: | View across lawn towards a lakeside resort among trees. Caption reads: "Spring Haven, Lake Geneva, (Near Chicago)." |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline towards yachts moored at two long docks. Caption reads: "Private Yachts, at Lake Geneva Docks, Lake Geneva, Wis." |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the east end of Lake Geneva, and the town of Lake Geneva. Caption reads: "Geneva Bay, from Otto Young's Villa, Lake Geneva, (Near Chicago)... |
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| Description: | View across water towards an excursion boat filled with tourists at the end of a pier. Caption reads: "'Steamer "Harvard,' Lake Geneva, Wis." |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Color illustration of boys swimming and sailing in Lake Geneva. Caption reads: "Boating and Bathing at Young Men's Christian Association Camp, Lake Geneva,... |
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| Description: | View of a man driving an automobile down a road, approaching a wooden bridge over a stream next to a pond. Dwellings are on the slope of a hill in the back... |
| Date: | 07 15 1912 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Center Street Looking East, Whitewater, Wis." Homes and trees on a street in a neighborhood. Passengers in an automobile are parked i... |
| Date: | 10 28 1911 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "M.E. Church, Whitewater, Wis." A stone church with an ornate steeple on a tree-lined street. |
| Date: | 09 26 1910 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Normal Lawn, Whitewater, Wis." The lawn in front of the Whitewater Normal School. The area is landscaped with trees, shrubs and plant... |
| Date: | 01 27 1910 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Whitewater Street, Whitewater, Wis." An elevated view of the right side of an unpaved street with sidewalks and hitching posts. Sever... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Mr. Branum's Cottage, Lauderdale Lake, Wis." A dwelling with a large porch, surrounded by trees. |
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