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Delavan Lake

Date: 1910
Description: View across water towards cabins on the shore of Delavan Lake, with three women standing near the base of a pier. Caption reads: "Log Cabin, Delavan Lake, ...
Photograph

J. Robert Taylor Family at Lakeside Cabin

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Description: View from water of Alma Reinhardt Taylor and her three children (from left) Frederick, Donna, and Ellen outside a cabin nestled among trees along a lake. F...
Photograph

J. Robert Children on Dock

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Description: View from lake towards Fred, Donna and Ellen Taylor standing on a pier. A cabin is on the shoreline in the background, nestled in trees.
Photograph

Group of People with "Yankee Boy"

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Description: Elevated view from hill of men and women disembarking from the "Yankee Boy" boat on what appears to be a lake pier, with rowboats on the near shoreline, an...
Photograph

"Mountaineers"

Date: 1911
Description: A group of men, women, and children pose on a bluff above Lake Flora Dell. In the background are several cottages surrounded by trees near the shoreline of...
Photograph

Workers' Unity House

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Description: Elevated view of two couples walking on a trail. A lake is is the background, along with log cabins. A canoe with three people is in the background.
Photograph

Mayor's Summer Home

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Description: View across water towards the Mayor's summer home as seen from across Pine Lake. Children and adults are standing in front of the two-story dwelling. To th...
Photograph

Boat at Dock at Pine Crest Lodge

Date: 1941
Description: View of a wooden boat named the "Tip Top" tied to a dock on a lake at Pine Crest Lodge. In the background the opposite shoreline across the lake is visible...
Map or Atlas

Vacation and Historical Map of Jefferson County, Wisconsin

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Description: A brochure and map of Jefferson County, Wisconsin, which includes color illustrations, a highway map of the county, a location map, and descriptions of poi...
Photograph

Black Point Estate

Date: 05 1977
Description: A small boat is seen on the waters of Geneva Lake in this aerial view of Black Point Estate. The main house with its distinctive tower and porches is easil...
Photograph

Locomobile

Date: 11 12 1928
Description: A 1922 Locomobile (foreground) and a 1917 model of the same make are parked near the main house at Black Point Estate. Geneva Lake is in the background.
Drawing

Brumder Properties

Date: 1929
Description: An unsigned, hand-drawn map of properties owned by members of the Brumder family on the northwest shore of Pine Lake in 1929. Named Villa Henrietta, the pr...
Photograph

Tower View

Date: 1900
Description: Three photographs taped together form a panoramic view from the top of the wooden tower built by George Brumder in 1892. The tower was built on Brumder's s...
Photograph

Moving In

Date: 1925
Description: Margaret Bouer (Mrs. Herbert Paul) Brumder posing standing beside an automobile hitched to a trailer, which is precariously loaded with household furnishin...
Photograph

Robert Thurston Canoeing

Date: 1917
Description: Robert Thurston is canoeing on Archibald Lake amidst some shoreline grasses. The Ark cottage on the Island is in the background on the right.

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