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State Normal School

Date: 1870
Description: State Normal School. A group of men are standing in the tall grass in the left foreground.
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State Normal School

Date: 1878
Description: State Normal School in Whitewater.
Photograph

Ceylon Building

Date: 1893
Description: The rear view of the Ceylon Building, which was from the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The building was later purchased by J.J. Mitchell, moved ...
Photograph

Ceylon Building

Date: 1893
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...
Postcard

Ceylon Building

Date: 1893
Description: The Ceylon Building from the water, from the Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The building was later purchased by J.J. Mitchell and converted to a private ...
Photograph

Ceylon Building on Lake Geneva

Date: 1893
Description: The Ceylon Building and its pier as seen from Lake Geneva. Originally built for the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, the building was later purchas...
Photograph

N.K. Fairbanks Estate

Date: 1890
Description: The N.K. Fairbanks estate, "Butternuts."
Photograph

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...
Drawing

Whiting House

Date: 1873
Description: The Whiting House with assorted traffic and people.
Photograph

Whiting House - Anaglyph

Date: 1880
Description: Stereograph view of the Whiting House with its large harbor and boats.
Photograph

Morris Pratt Institute

Date: 1889
Description: Veew toward the facade and right side of the Morris Pratt Institute on a street corner. The roof line has an ornate iron railing running around its perimet...
Photograph

Side View of Lake House

Date: 1898
Description: Side porte-cochere of a residence.
Photograph

Kayes Park House

Date: 1885
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 ...
Photograph

The Whiting House

Date: 1880
Description: View from water over boats towards the four-story wood frame Second Empire style Whiting House Hotel standing on the lake shore at Lake Geneva. Several set...
Photograph

The Loreley

Date: 1888
Description: A view of the east side of the newly built Loreley, the summer home of Chicago brewer Conrad Seipp. The large, two and one half story, wood frame Queen Ann...

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