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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 ...
Postcard

J.J. Mitchell Summer Home

Date: 1915
Description: The summer home of J.J. Mitchell, formally known as Ceylon Court. Caption at right reads: "Greetings from Lake Geneva, Wis. (near Chicago)", and below read...
Photograph

Iceboats

Date: 1900
Description: Forest Middleton poses with his sled as his father, William, works with an iceboat behind him on frozen Lake Monona. There are other iceboats and boathouse...
Photograph

Nebraska Row Summer Homes

Date: 1937
Description: View from lake of the summer homes on Nebraska Row along the shoreline of Lake Superior.
Photograph

Boats in the Harbor

Date: 1949
Description: View of the harbor, crowded with boats.
Photograph

Wychmere Harbor

Date: 
Description: General view of Wychmere Harbor, filled with small boats. Houses can be seen on the shore.
Photograph

Summer Homes on Nebraska Row

Date: 1937
Description: View from the lake of the summer homes on Nebraska Row along the shoreline of Lake Superior. The water tower and church steeple are visible on the far righ...
Photograph

Plum Island

Date: 1927
Description: View of the Plum Island rear range lighthouse from the end of the pier. The brick house was home to the lighthouse keeper and the first and second assistan...
Photograph

Fish Creek Dock

Date: 07 1923
Description: A large group stands on the pier at Fish Creek as a boat leaves. A barn-like warehouse stands on the pier; houses, boathouses, and outbuildings are visible...
Photograph

Iceboating

Date: 1920
Description: Three men work with an iceboat just offshore near Cottage Row Road. The sail and boom lie on the ice. There are boathouses and three windmills along the ...
Photograph

Baileys Harbor

Date: 1915
Description: The Baileys Harbor Coast Guard Life Saving Station viewed from between a fishing boat and a pier warehouse. The station's pier extends into the harbor and ...
Photograph

Coast Guard Station at Baileys Harbor

Date: 1915
Description: View from shoreline over water towards the Coast Guard Station and houses at Baileys Harbor. The long pier extending from the station's boathouse is easily...
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Baileys Harbor Coast Guard Station

Date: 1915
Description: Winter view of the Coast Guard Life Saving Station at Baileys Harbor. Snow has drifted on the shore, where a small boat rests.
Photograph

Europe Lake Boathouse

Date: 1923
Description: View from the water of the Hotz family cottage, boathouse, and rustic pier on Europe Lake.
Photograph

House on Cottage Row Road

Date: 1915
Description: Winter view, taken from the frozen Green Bay, of a house south of Fish Creek. There is a windmill in the yard. A boathouse with upper deck and railing stan...
Photograph

Hen Island

Date: 1915
Description: Hen Island is reflected in the water of Fish Creek Bay in this view from Nelson Point in Peninsula State Park. The homes and businesses of Fish Creek are i...
Photograph

Boathouse

Date: 1940
Description: A man is standing and looking at the door of the boathouse on the beach near the Twin River (Rawley) Point Lighthouse. The boathouse has stone sides and a ...
Photograph

Pine Lake Gardens

Date: 1895
Description: An elevated view, looking east, from the wooden tower on George Brumder's Pine Lake property, showing Pine Lake in the center and Beaver Lake beyond. There...
Photograph

Tower View

Date: 1900
Description: Three photographs taped together form a panoramic view from the top of the wooden tower built by George Brumder in 1892. The tower was built on Brumder's s...
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Stone Boathouse

Date: 1935
Description: A wooden power boat is leaving a wake in the foreground of a view of a rustic stone "wet" boathouse with four stalls for boat storage. The building also ha...

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