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Iceboats on Lake

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Description: View across ice towards the crews of ice yachts standing near their iceboats. There are seventeen or eighteen iceboats, and their are numbers on the sails.
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Before the Morning Race

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Description: View from shoreline towards several small sailboats, and a boat moored around two piers. People are standing on the piers. Caption reads: "Before the Morni...
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View from the Yacht Club

Date: 1909
Description: Elevated view looking down towards two piers in Delavan Lake. A group of people, several sailboats and an excursion boat are at the pier on the right. Ther...
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Sail Boats on Eagle Bay

Date: 1936
Description: Elevated view across water towards small sailboats with two-man crews in Lake Michigan. A tree-lined shoreline is on the far right.
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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 ...
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Clara Bow

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Description: Clara Bow standing in between some ropes or small poles on the schooner Diablo for a publicity photo. She is wearing a swimsuit with a belt.
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Koelch Resort, Pike Lake

Date: 1909
Description: View along shoreline towards the Koelch Resort. There is a sailboat and rowboats in the lake near a pier. Horses are standing under the trees at the shorel...
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Sailboat on Chequamegon Bay

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Description: Three people are sitting in a small wooden sailboat with a red sail. Trees are covering the shoreline in the background.
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Sailboat

Date: 1968
Description: Three people are putting up the sails on their sailboat in the Pioneer Marina.
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Sailing — at College Camp

Date: 1943
Description: Photographic postcard view of a sailboat on Lake Geneva. A woman is standing on the deck. Caption reads: "Sailing — at College Camp, Wisconsin On Lak...
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Tonyawatha Spring Hotel

Date: 08 30 1884
Description: View along the Lake Monona shoreline towards the Tonyawatha Spring Hotel. A crowd of people are standing on the pier with several sailboats. On the shore i...
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Boating and Bathing at Young Men's Christian Association Camp

Date: 1909
Description: Color illustration of boys swimming and sailing in Lake Geneva. Caption reads: "Boating and Bathing at Young Men's Christian Association Camp, Lake Geneva,...
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Sailing

Date: 08 1934
Description: Rear view of three young men sailing an E-Scow sailboat numbered U 65 in a regatta on Lake Mendota. "NAN TUCK" is painted on the stern of the boat. Maple B...
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Canoe Sailing on Chippewa Lake

Date: 1935
Description: A young man is sitting and holding the mainsheet in a canoe fitted with a single mast and sail. There is a small wake behind the boat. The far shoreline is...
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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...
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The "Kayosh" on Lake Winnebago

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Description: View across water towards a three masted sailboat with a crew of four men in Lake Winnebago. More boats are in the background.
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Yachting on Lake Winnebago

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Description: View across water towards a crew of men racing two sailboats. Another boat is in the background on the left.
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Returning to Camp

Date: 1940
Description: Photographic postcard view of young men and boys paddling canoes toward the shore of Boulder Lake. A canoe on the left bears the YMCA insignia. Other yout...
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Sail Boat Rescue on Lake Mendota

Date: 06 13 1954
Description: Robert Risser, Jr., of 3806 Hammersley Road, on duty watching for boaters in distress on Lake Mendota from the U.W. Lifesaving Services lookout. He is usin...
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Sail Boat Rescue on Lake Mendota

Date: 06 13 1954
Description: Captain Harvey Black, in aviator sunglasses at the helm, skippers the rescue boat, "Isabel III," speeding towards a stranded sail boater on Lake Mendota. T...

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