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| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | The gateway to the Ceylon Building's courtyard, from the Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The building was purchased by J.J. Mitchell, moved to Lake Geneva... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Stereograph view of the Whiting House with its large harbor and boats. Whiting House is a four-story wood frame Second Empire style hotel standing on the l... |
| Date: | 08 24 1882 |
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| Description: | Front cover and menu page from Kaye's Park House, with a lakeside view of the hotel, a paddlewheel steamboat, people in rowboats or standing by a Kaye's Pa... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Catherine Orb Seipp stands on the lawn at Black Point, near one of the porches of the 1905 "cottage." She is wearing a summer dress with bold bands of dark... |
| Date: | 06 13 1953 |
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| Description: | Claire Chapin, granddaughter of Clara Seipp Bartholomay, with her husband, William Frederick Carr, on their wedding day at Black Point Estate. Geneva Lake ... |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | Alma Schmidt Petersen, left, poses with her sister, Clara Theresa (Tessa) Schmidt Reese, and brother-in-law Dr. Hans Reese on the shrub-bordered brick driv... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Dr. Otto Schmidt, left, poses with his mother-in-law, Catherine Seipp, and his daughter Alma on the lawn in front of the main house at Black Point. Cather... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of the large hotel at Kayes Park on the south shore of Geneva Lake. There are two girls standing in the foreground, with well-dressed women in ... |
| 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: | 05 1982 |
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| Description: | Alma Schmidt Petersen, left, walks arm and arm with her sister, Clara Theresa (Tessa) Reese on the grounds of Black Point Estate. Behind them are two of A... |
| Date: | 1980 |
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| 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... |
| 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: | 1905 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Group of men and women seated in the grass at the side of a road. One man wears a sailor's uniform. Automobiles are parked along the road in the background... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Three couples posed in and in front of an automobile, and another man standing next to the car on the left. Trees are in the background. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Outdoor informal group portrait of four women standing together at Lake Geneva. Trees are in the background. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Informal group portrait of fifteen people, men women and children, posed on stone steps at Oakwood Sanitarium. Some of the people are holding bouquets. |
| Date: | 06 1981 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 07 31 1969 |
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| 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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