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Sailboats and a Pier

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Description: View from shoreline towards a group of people at the end of a pier standing near or on two sailboats. A shoreline is in the far background.
Photograph

Chautauqua Park

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Description: View down pier, with people standing at the end, and two sailboats in the water, with the one on the left manned by two men. There is an excursion boat doc...
Historical Object

093 - Joy Camps Water Activities

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Description: Page from Joy Camps photo album displaying five photographs. On the left is a Snipe setting sail with a camper and Miss Camp aboard. The top middle photogr...
Photograph

The "Lorely"

Date: 1910
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...
Photograph

Alma and Tessa Sailing

Date: 09 08 1916
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...
Postcard

Group on Dock Watching Sailboats

Date: 1900
Description: A group of men and women standing on a dock watching sailboats cast off. The tree covered shoreline is visible in the distance.
Photograph

At the Dock

Date: 08 1932
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...
Postcard

Camp Brosius

Date: 1954
Description: Elevated view towards dock, and a diving platform at Camp Brosius. A sailboat, rowboat and canoes are in the lake. Several people are swimming or standing ...
Photograph

Red Arrow Camp

Date: 1935
Description: View from shoreline towards a long pier on Trout Lake leading to a diving board on the left, and diving platforms on the right. There are small sailboats t...
Photograph

Shores of Geneva Lake

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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...
Photograph

Three Young Men and the Islander Steam Launch

Date: 1904
Description: Three young men are standing on the pier at Island Lodge on Archibald Lake. The Islander steam launch is tied to the pier with a rope. Holding a gun...
Photograph

The Vidette

Date: 1917
Description: View across water towards an unidentified man wearing a cap sitting on the deck of a sailboat, the Vidette at the pier of Villa Henrietta, the Brumd...
Photograph

At Pine Lake

Date: 1927
Description: View towards the front of a sailboat in which Herbert E. Brumder, wearing a visor, right, and an unidentified boy on the left, are sitting. The sailboat w...
Photograph

Race on Pine Lake

Date: 1929
Description: A young woman, possibly the photographer's daughter Barbara Brumder, is posing sitting on the deck of a wooden Chris-Craft power boat moored to a pier. The...

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