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058 - Three Sailboats, with Campers, on Lake

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Description: Exterior view of several campers handling three sailboats on a lake. Reflection of the sails are captured on the surface of water. The far shoreline is in ...
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057 - Page from Joy Camps Album Displaying Boats

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Description: Page from Joy Camps photo album displaying two photographs with caption. The larger photograph shows two of the camp's Skip-Jack boats, each with a camper ...
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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...
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Final Standings for the Mendota Yacht Club Announced

Date: 07 23 1955
Description: Portrait of Jim Maloney, winner of the C Class division of the Mendota Yacht Club Saturday Pre-Season Series sailing races.
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Final Standings for the Mendota Yacht Club Announced

Date: 07 23 1955
Description: Portrait of Dick Ela, winner of the Mendota Yacht Club Sunday Pre-Season Series sailing races.
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Joy Camps Newspaper Publicity

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Description: Page from Sue Ann Hackett Scrapbook displaying a newspaper clipping with photograph and caption; Sue Ann Hackett and friend Virginia Brown are pictured her...
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Ephraim Pier

Date: 07 25 1960
Description: Ephraim pier in Eagle Harbor. The pier is made of timbers. A dock and boathouse are on the right. Bare masts rise above the boats. The shoreline and trees ...
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Otto L. Schmidt M.D.

Date: 1923
Description: Dr. Otto Schmidt (1863-1935), second from right, poses behind a captain's chair with three other officials of the Inland Lakes Yachting Association (ILYA) ...
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Sailing the "Senta"

Date: 1925
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,...
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Sailing the "Senta"

Date: 1925
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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Sailboats on Geneva Lake

Date: 1930
Description: Elevated view across water of sailboats on Geneva Lake. There are people on a boat with an outboard motor in the foreground. The scalloped edge of an awnin...
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Sailboats on Geneva Lake

Date: 1930
Description: A young man in the foreground, possibly Ernst Schmidt, stands looking out at sailboats on Geneva Lake. In the foreground on the left a woman is on a sailbo...
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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...
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Sailing on Geneva Lake

Date: 1945
Description: Alma Schmidt Petersen controls the sheets on a small sailboat. Her husband, William F. Petersen, sits aft. The child between them is unidentified. The sail...
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Senta III

Date: 07 1959
Description: View across water of the Senta III, owned by Ernst Schmidt of Black Point Estate, competes in the Class A Regatta at Pewaukee Lake. The skipper is B...
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The Black Point

Date: 1908
Description: View across water towards the Black Point sailing on Geneva Lake. Yerkes Observatory is in the far background.
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The Senta

Date: 09 05 1915
Description: View across water towards the Senta, owned and skipped by Dr. Otto Schmidt, on Lake Geneva near the Lake Geneva Yacht Club just before the start of ...
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Pete Barrett, Olympic Finn Class Sailing Representative

Date: 09 05 1964
Description: Pete Barrett, United States representative in the Olympic Finn class sailing in Tokyo, with his family. Left to right, Mrs. Pete (Laurie) Barrett, Tara, si...
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Ernst Schmidt

Date: 07 03 1916
Description: Ernst Conrad Schmidt (1893-1977) skips the "Water Witch" off the shore of Geneva Lake near Black Point Estate. There is a larger boat in the background nea...
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Sailing on Geneva Lake

Date: 09 03 1916
Description: Ernst Schmidt (1893-1977) and Jean Happich sail the boat "Illiola." Schmidt was a grandson of Chicago brewer Conrad Seipp, who established Black Point Esta...

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