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| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Elevated exterior view of Yerkes Observatory. Geneva Lake is in the background, left. Roads and sidewalks cross the sweeping, well tended lawns. The desi... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Lake Geneva with the Lake Geneva steamboat. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of the north shore of Delavan Lake with a lighthouse in the background. Also known as "Red Top" and "L.P. Sutter's." Caption reads: North Shore, Delav... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View across water towards the Inlet Bridge on Delavan Lake. Caption reads: "Inlet Bridge, Delavan Lake". |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Delavan Lake, looking toward Highland. Caption reads: "A Veiw[sic] On Delavan Lake Toward Highland". |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| 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, ... |
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| Description: | View of the lake-side of the hotel. The hotel porch and balcony is on the far left, and beyond are smaller buildings among trees. The lake is on the right.... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View across water towards Lake Lawn. Two turrets or towers are above the trees. The word "LAWN" is spelled out on the shorelineon the left. Caption reads: ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Distant view of the mill, with a stream leading to it, and a road paralleling the stream on the right. Caption reads: "The Old Mill, Delavan, Wis." |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a pond, a stream, and a lake, with a road dividing the pond and stream from the lake. Industrial buildings and a smokestack are in the bac... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of a steamboat landing on Lake Geneva. A group of women are gathered on the shore in the foreground. Caption reads: "Steamboat Landing,... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | View from bank towards the stone bridge. Caption reads: "The Upper Bridge, Whitewater, Wis." |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Lake Geneva Bay, with assorted homes and hotels, and boats docked at long piers. Caption reads: "Geneva Bay, Lake Geneva, Wis." |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | The summer home of J.J. Mitchell, formally known as Ceylon Court. Caption at right reads: "Greetings from Lake Geneva, Wis. (near Chicago)", and below read... |
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| Description: | Lake Lawn. Several boats are on the water with a man standing on his sailboat next to the dock. Trees run along the shoreline into the distance. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Young Ralph Quinney fills a water trough for a group of Jersey cows on the family farm. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | View toward the tombstones and a building at Hillside Cemetery and Park. In the foreground is a pond surrounded by vegetation. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View across creek toward the back of the industrial plant. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View across water toward the back of an industrial plant. A smokestack is behind a building on the left. |
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| Description: | View across water toward the back and side of the plant. Three young men in bathing suits sit on a wall over the bridge to the right. |
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