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| 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: | 1982 |
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| Description: | Alma Schmidt Petersen, left, enjoys a meal with her niece (by marriage), Ilze Reese, in the dining room of the main house at Black Point Estate. This photo... |
| 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: | 04 27 1968 |
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| Description: | Members of the Petersen family gathered for a meal at the farmhouse, also referred to as the Baker house, at Black Point Estate. The room is open to the ra... |
| 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: | Group portrait of nine women and two men at Lake Geneva. Trees are in the background. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Three couples posed on a sidewalk in front of a Luick Ice Cream sign. An ice cream parlor is in the background. One man is wearing a sailor's uniform. |
| 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: | 1946 |
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| Description: | A large sink and hand water pump stand in a corner near a door of the laundry room at Black Point. The laundry was located in the "kitchen building" (demol... |
| 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 11 1974 |
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| Description: | Alma Schmidt Petersen, wearing a summer dress and flower lei, stands at a long table on the dining porch of the main house at Black Point Estate surrounded... |
| 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: | 09 10 1966 |
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| Description: | Bride Catherine Bakieff Petersen and groom Peter Seipp Goltra, left, pose with their wedding party under the crystal chandelier in the music room at Black ... |
| 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 ... |
| Date: | 01 25 1924 |
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| Description: | The large, wood framed 1905 cottage at Black Point stands at the crest of a gentle snowy slope framed by evergreens and bare deciduous trees. The cottage w... |
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