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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | The estate known as "Snug Harbor" built by George Sturges in 1884 and owned by the Sturges family until about 1908. In the driveway in front is a child in ... |
| 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 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... |
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| Description: | View of a group of individuals relaxing outdoors. Several men and women read, while others sit on the ground or in a hammock. |
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| Description: | View from street of hotel with balcony above entrance on corner, and a clock tower. Motorcar with several people are on the left. |
| Date: | 08 24 1882 |
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| Description: | Front cover and menu page from Kaye's Park House, with a lakeside view of the hotel, a paddlewheel steamboat, people in rowboats or standing by a Kaye's Pa... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Small steam yacht decorated with pennants on Lake Geneva. A small group is at the front of the yacht. Shoreline with boathouses and dwellings can be seen i... |
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| Description: | Two sixth plate ambrotypes of Charles Minton Baker, (on left) (1804-1872) and his second wife, (on right) Elizabeth Holt Baker. Baker lived in Lake Geneva,... |
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| Description: | Sixth plate ferrotype/tintype of Charles Minton Baker. Baker was a lawyer, politician, b. New York City. He attended Middlebury College, Vt., studied law, ... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | Lithographic view of a man in a canoe on Big-Foot's Lake (modern day Lake Geneva) with a small settlement on a bluff overlooking the lake. A group of birds... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View across water towards the small Geneva Lake steamer, the "Loreley," approaches the pier at Black Point. The captain stands at the wheel. There is a ca... |
| Date: | 06 13 1953 |
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| Description: | Claire Chapin, granddaughter of Clara Seipp Bartholomay, with her husband, William Frederick Carr, on their wedding day at Black Point Estate. Geneva Lake ... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Ernst Conrad Schmidt, wearing conventional yachting attire of dark blazer and light-colored trousers, poses with trophies won by his boat, the "Senta III."... |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | Alma Schmidt Petersen, left, poses with her sister, Clara Theresa (Tessa) Schmidt Reese, and brother-in-law Dr. Hans Reese on the shrub-bordered brick driv... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Dr. Otto Schmidt, left, poses with his mother-in-law, Catherine Seipp, and his daughter Alma on the lawn in front of the main house at Black Point. Cather... |
| Date: | 12 25 1942 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Ernst Conrad Schmidt (1893-1977), grandson of Chicago brewer Conrad Seipp, sitting in an easy chair reading in his high ceilinged, wood pa... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Dr. Otto L. Schmidt, far left, is helmsman for the "Senta," sailing with a crew of three on Geneva Lake. Dr. Schmidt was the husband of Emma Seipp Schmidt,... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View across water of Dr. Otto L. Schmidt, second from right, sitting at the helm of the "Senta," with a crew of four. Dr. Schmidt was married to Emma Seipp... |
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