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| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View across water towards Lake Lawn. Two turrets or towers are above the trees. The word "LAWN" is spelled out on the shorelineon the left. Caption reads: ... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a pond, a stream, and a lake, with a road dividing the pond and stream from the lake. Industrial buildings and a smokestack are in the bac... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | View down pier towards shoreline and building at Lake Geneva at Montague's and Porter's resort, later W.F. Furbecks, at the site of Fontana Park or Buena V... |
| 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: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Yerkes Observatory. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Lake Geneva Bay, with assorted homes and hotels, and boats docked at long piers. Caption reads: "Geneva Bay, Lake Geneva, Wis." |
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| Description: | Stereograph of a little boy with a straw hat and stick walking along an outlet into Lake Geneva. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Stereograph elevated view of a steamboat landing in front of the Whiting House. Groups of people are standing on the pier, and more are on the steamboat. S... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Stereograph view of a steamboat landing at Whiting House. |
| 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: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Southeastern Wisconsin which lies east of Whitewater and south of Port Washington. |
| Date: | 07 05 1933 |
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| 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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| Description: | Path on tree-lined shoreline with rowboats. A section of a porch is on the left, other dwellings and piers in the distance. |
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| Description: | Lake Lawn. Several boats are on the water with a man standing on his sailboat next to the dock. Trees run along the shoreline into the distance. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Four children lay on their stomachs and pose underneath a canoe, which is overturned on the ground. They are near Delavan Lake. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Swimmers posing for a portrait in Delavan Lake. |
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