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| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | This map of Lake Geneva has relief shown by contours and water depths shown by isolines. The map includes an index of schools, churches, public services, i... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | The program for the summer series of concerts sponsored by George Williams College at their College Camp on Geneva Lake was designed by Edmund Elsner of Wi... |
| 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: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Ernst Conrad Schmidt, wearing conventional yachting attire of dark blazer and light-colored trousers, poses with trophies won by his boat, the "Senta III."... |
| Date: | 09 1954 |
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| Description: | A grand piano with ornate shawl stands in front of the fireplace in the music room at Black Point. The fireplace surround is covered with ornate ceramic ti... |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | An ornate chandelier with gas light style shades and many prisms dominates a photograph of the music room at Black Point. There is a painted frieze below t... |
| Date: | 09 1954 |
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| Description: | An ornate dining table with matching chairs anchors the dining room at Black Point. There is a stained glass window at the far end of the room over a built... |
| Date: | 09 1954 |
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| Description: | A view of the southeast corner of the dining room in the main house at Black Point, showing a china cabinet and tea table. The cabinet holds pieces of Cath... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Two pandas "scrap" on the embossed leather cover of a scrapbook bearing the title "Snaps and Scraps." Metallic gold highlights the embossed areas. The scra... |
| Date: | 07 25 1952 |
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| Description: | The caption accompanying this photograph describes the scene: "Ernst C. Schmidt raising the storm warning flag at the dock of the Lake Geneva Yacht Club on... |
| Date: | 08 01 1954 |
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| Description: | Ernst C. Schmidt and Mary Helen Anderson stand on a pier and pose next to the Black Point launch "Nepenthe." |
| Date: | 10 1953 |
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| Description: | A car sits on the drive at Black Point near the distinctive tower at the northwest corner of the house. The trees have lost their leaves. |
| Date: | 07 12 1954 |
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| Description: | Clara Seipp Bartholomay (1871-1956) sits with her husband Henry Bartholomay, Jr, (1868-1955) on the porch of their summer home, which was built in 1905 as ... |
| Date: | 07 1958 |
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| Description: | North front of Black Point, showing the stick style detailing in the gable end. There is a small porch on the third floor with steep stairs leading to the ... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | A handwritten note describes this portrait as: "Aunt Elsa in her summer house "The Lindens" when she was eighty years old." She is wearing a print dress an... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Nighttime elevated view of the lake through trees. Conference Point is on the far shoreline. Caption reads: "Moonlight Silhouette — Conference Point ... |
| Date: | 03 30 1953 |
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| Description: | View of a beach, framed by a tree at the shoreline in the foreground, and trees oon the opposite shoreline. Caption reads: View at Big Foot Beach, State Pa... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a machine shop, where several people are standing and working at lathes. Around the shop are piles of machined parts, all of which are cyl... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Water and reflections at Big Foot Beach State Park on Buttons Bay, Geneva Lake. |
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