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Swan Dive

Date: 1905
Description: Halftone print of two divers in mid-air as other young men watch from the pier at the Y.M.C.A. camp on Geneva Lake. A sailboat is moored to the pier, which...
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...
Photograph

Sailing School

Date: 08 08 1941
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...
Photograph

The "Arrow"

Date: 1880
Description: Elevated view across water towards an unidentified man standing on the deck of the steamship "Arrow," owned by Shelton Sturges. It is docked at a pier near...
Photograph

Sailing Competition on Lake Mendota

Date: 09 01 1965
Description: Two sailboats on the rough waters of Lake Mendota in the national Finn class sailing championship. Pete Barrett of Costa Mesa, California, formerly of Madi...
Photograph

Sailboat "Halcyon"

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Description: View across water towards four men wearing suits and hats sitting in a sailboat.
Photograph

Buttonhole Camera Negative 15

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Description: Six circular images on a glass plate negative from the Stirn Concealed Vest Camera. The images are of a variety of excursion boats, sailboats, and horse-dr...
Photograph

Overturned Sail Canoe

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Description: View across water towards a man working to turn a sail canoe, rolled over onto its left side, upright. The canoe has two sails, is dark-colored, and has a ...
Photograph

"Solid Comfort" Sailboat

Date: 1885
Description: View across water towards the "Solid Comfort" on Lake Mendota. A man is standing on the cabin roof at the front; with a man and woman standing below him. O...
Photograph

Two Boats on the Water

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Description: View across water towards two boats close together on a lake. There are six men in the boat in front, one man with a pipe in his mouth, and two men in the ...
Photograph

Lew Porter in a Sailing Canoe

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Description: View across water towards Lew Porter, a Madison architect, in a sailing canoe with two sails.
Photograph

Two Men in a Sailboat

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Description: View across water towards two men in a small sailboat with large sails.
Photograph

Steam Paddle Boat with Sailboats

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Description: View across water towards women on a steam paddle boat on the left, and four sailboats near them on the right.
Photograph

Sailboats on Lake Monona

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Description: View across water towards two men in a rowboat who are looking out at sailboats on Lake Monona. In the background is the far shoreline.
Photograph

"Solid Comfort" Sailboat

Date: 05 30 1885
Description: The sailboat "Solid Comfort" in full sail, near the shoreline. There are four men standing on top of the cabin. Deckhands are at both ends of the boat. The...
Photograph

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.
Postcard

Yachting, Cedar Lake, near West Bend

Date: 1909
Description: Hand-colored view across water of three, two-person sailboats on Cedar Lake. On the far shoreline are buildings at the top of a hill. Caption reads: "Yacht...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Summer Outings Wisconsin Michigan

Date: 1921
Description: This map shows in red the NorthWestern Railway Line routes running from Chicago, Illinois to northern Wisconsin and Michigan. The map includes cities and t...
Postcard

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...
Postcard

South Shore, Delavan Lake

Date: 1951
Description: View across water towards boathouses and piers along the shoreline at Delavan Lake. There are sailboats in the lake. Caption reads: "South Shore, Delavan L...

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