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Boat Track
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A view looking down the boat track at the Lake Geneva Yacht Club, with the clubhouse on the right and the lake in the background. There are several sailboats on racks and trailers on either side of the track. A canoe is on the rack in the left foreground.
September 1928
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Loading the Boat
August 1928
Men use a derrick to lift a racing yacht from its trailer, obscured by the derrick's winch, onto the car on the tracks leading to Geneva Lake. The boat was competing in the Inland Lake Yachting Ass...
Working on the Boat
August 1928
Members of the crew work on the bottom of a class C boat before the Inland Lake Yachting Association Regatta. The Lake Geneva Yacht Club clubhouse is in the background. On the left are the tracks l...
Clubhouse
August 16, 1928
A rear view of the clubhouse of the Lake Geneva Yacht Club. Formerly the Cook house, the building was remodeled in 1927 to accommodate the club. The building has been repainted and there are new sh...
Sheridan Race
1914
The sailboat "Senta" competes in the Sheridan Prize Race at Geneva Lake. The "Senta" belonged to Dr. Otto L. Schmidt, who is the skipper here. He was an owner of Black Point Estate. Two crew member...
Lake Geneva Yacht Club
March 19, 1929
The Lake Geneva Yacht Club, originally a residence, sits on the shore of Geneva Lake. A description of the photograph written by Ernst Schmidt reads, "The picture was taken from the outer end of th...
Inland Lake Yachting Association Brochure
August 1949
Brochure for the forty-eighth Annual Regatta of the Inland Lake Yachting Association features a photograph of ten sailboats and a motorized judges' boat. Ernst C. Schmidt, grandson of Conrad Seipp ...
