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Iceboats

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Description: Iceboats at Williams Bay on Lake Geneva.
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Lake Geneva Outlet

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Description: Stereograph of a little boy with a straw hat and stick walking along an outlet into Lake Geneva.
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Snug Harbor

Date: 1900
Description: The estate known as "Snug Harbor" built by George Sturges in 1884 and owned by the Sturges family until about 1908. In the driveway in front is a child in ...
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Whiting House

Date: 1880
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...
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Young Men's Christian Association Camp

Date: 1905
Description: The villa at the Young Men's Christian Association Camp. A group of girls and boys are sitting on the lawn on the left and two more people are sitting on t...
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Lake Geneva

Date: 07 05 1933
Description: View from beach of people swimming. Some are standing in the sand, and some are on the diving pier out in the water. On the left is part of a water slide.
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Steam Yacht Decorated with Flags and Pennants

Date: 1885
Description: Small steam yacht decorated with pennants on Lake Geneva. A small group is at the front of the yacht. Shoreline with boathouses and dwellings can be seen i...
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Children at Black Point

Date: 1933
Description: Conrad Petersen, far right, poses in front of his brother, Edward Petersen, and three other children near the porch at Black Point. The girl in front holds...
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Catherine Seipp

Date: 1910
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...
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Celebration at Black Point

Date: 07 12 1944
Description: Family members pose on the lawn of the Bartholomay house on the Black Point Estate. They have gathered to celebrate the fiftieth wedding anniversary of Cla...
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Wedding at Black Point

Date: 06 13 1953
Description: Claire Chapin, granddaughter of Clara Seipp Bartholomay, with her husband, William Frederick Carr, on their wedding day at Black Point Estate. Geneva Lake ...
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Ernst Schmidt, Reading

Date: 02 02 1975
Description: Ernst Schmidt, at age 81, sits reading the "Wisconsin Magazine of History" at a table at Black Point. A telephone and lamp with a stained glass shade stand...
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Ernst Schmidt and Trophies

Date: 1958
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."...
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Edward Schmidt Petersen

Date: 1922
Description: Young Edward Petersen (1921-2013) poses sitting in a wicker highchair on the porch at Black Point. He is the son of William F. and Alma Schmidt Petersen an...
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Dr. William F. Petersen and Sons

Date: 08 10 1930
Description: Dr. William Petersen stands behind a bench posing with his three sons, posed on bench, from left, William Otto (standing, holding a ball), Conrad William, ...
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Children in Boat

Date: 1930
Description: The three sons (center) of Dr. William and Alma Schmidt Petersen pose in a row boat on the shore of Geneva Lake with two unidentified girls. The boys are, ...
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Children with Goats

Date: 1927
Description: Five children, probably cousins, including Edward Petersen, center, and his brother Conrad, second from right, pose with two goats in an orchard at Black P...
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Boys and the Goat House

Date: 1927
Description: The Petersen brothers, from far left William Otto, Conrad Schmidt, and Edward William, with an unidentified boy (probably a cousin) pose in front of a smal...
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William F. and Edward Petersen

Date: 1927
Description: Dr. William F. Petersen, with his son Edward, poses next to a dragon that he created for his sons at Black Point Estate.
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William F. Petersen and Sons

Date: 1927
Description: Dr. William F. Petersen sits in the doorway of a toy teepee playing with his sons Conrad, left, and Edward, dressed in Indian costumes. Edward wields a toy...

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