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Lake Geneva
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View from boat towards the waterfront at Lake Geneva with the Whiting House Hotel on the left and the pier extending to the right. A large sidewheel steamboat with a banner reading "Lake Geneva" and two smaller launches are on the right.
1895
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Boathouse
1935
View from end of pier towards three boys posing in the water of Geneva Lake in front of the boathouse at Black Point Estate. A woman observes from the narrow pier near the shoreline. Two boats rest...
The "Lorely"
1910
Elsa Seipp Madlener, center, poses with her husband Albert, right, and another man, possibly Ed Daily, the engineer of the steam launch "Lorely." A handwritten caption notes that the occasion was t...
Boathouses at Black Point
February 11, 1930
View of the Black Point boathouses taken from the frozen ice of Geneva Lake. Blocks of cut ice are in the foreground. A description of the photograph written by Ernst Schmidt reads, "The channel cu...
Steamboats at Geneva Bay
1890
Elevated view from shoreline of two side wheeled steamboats, the "Lucius Newberry," left, and the "Lady of the Lake," docked at Geneva Lake. Other smaller boats are also tied to the piers and sailb...
The Whiting House
1880
View from water over boats towards the four-story wood frame Second Empire style Whiting House Hotel standing on the lake shore at Lake Geneva. Several sets of stairs lead to a porch which extends ...
Conrad Petersen
1926
Conrad Petersen steps off the pier onto the shore at Black Point Estate. A small boat is moored to the shore in the background under a tree trunk leaning over the water of Geneva Lake.
