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| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Whitewater, with insets. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of a steamboat landing on Lake Geneva. A group of women are gathered on the shore in the foreground. Caption reads: "Steamboat Landing,... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 08 1929 |
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| Description: | William Otto Petersen sits on his mother's lap as they ride inside a passenger launch on Geneva Lake. One of William's older brothers sits on the right. Th... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of Dr. Otto Schmidt, second from left, standing on the pier at Black Point with other, unidentified, adults and children. A launch is t... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elsa Seipp Madlener, center, poses with her husband Albert, right, and another man, possibly Ed Daily, the engineer of the steam launch "Lorely." A handwri... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View across water towards Frank Greene standing on a boulder seawall at Uihlein's Point on Geneva Lake. In the background on the left is a pier with a cove... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Henry Bartholomay Jr., right, and his son Henry Conrad Bartholomay fish on the pier at Black Point. The steamer Loreley is anchored offshore on he l... |
| Date: | 09 08 1916 |
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| Description: | Sisters Alma, in dark glasses, and Tessa (Clara Theresa) Schmidt aboard the "Water Witch" at the pier at Black Point. Both women are wearing long white dre... |
| Date: | 08 1916 |
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| Description: | Albert Fridolin Madlener (1868-1947) poses on the small sailboat "Water Witch" at the pier at Black Point. He is wearing a cap, summer slacks, a long-sleev... |
| Date: | 08 1925 |
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| Description: | The judges for the 1925 Inland Lake Yachting Association Regatta held at Lake Geneva are shown aboard Commodore Colonel William Nelson Pelouze's steamer "F... |
| Date: | 07 15 1922 |
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| Description: | A description of this photograph written by Ernst Schmidt reads, "The Black Point Pier on Saturday, July 15, 1922, just before the start of a class "C" rac... |
| Date: | 06 18 1927 |
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| Description: | A family group poses on the occasion of the launching of the yacht "Mystery" at Geneva Lake. They are, from left, Alma Schmidt Petersen; Alfred Fridolin Ma... |
| Date: | 01 02 1928 |
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| Description: | John Nelson, background far right, and [?] Thompson pose next to the racing sailboat they are building for Ernst Schmidt. A portion of the planking has bee... |
| Date: | 08 1928 |
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| Description: | Men use a derrick to lift a racing yacht from its trailer, obscured by the derrick's winch, onto the car on the tracks leading to Geneva Lake. The boat was... |
| Date: | 08 1928 |
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| Description: | Members of the crew work on the bottom of a class C boat before the Inland Lake Yachting Association Regatta. The Lake Geneva Yacht Club clubhouse is in th... |
| Date: | 08 1932 |
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| Description: | Crews work on their boats at the dock of the Lake Geneva Yacht Club after one of the races of the 1932 Inland Lake Yachting Association Regatta. The tent f... |
| Date: | 08 08 1941 |
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| Description: | View across water of women and children sitting on the deck of the Sailing School Ship on Lake Geneva. Herb Taylor, partly obscured on the afterdeck, was t... |
| Date: | 09 04 1941 |
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| Description: | Ernst Schmidt, second from left, and two other men prepare to unload a 17-foot Lyman motorboat named "Islander" from an Illinois Central freight car. "Auto... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| 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... |
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