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On the Way Home
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A National brand automobile is stopped on the side of an unpaved road as a horse-drawn buggy approaches from the rear. The car is pulling a racing yacht on a trailer. There are two suitcases on the running board. A description of the photograph written by Ernst Schmidt reads, "Probably coming back from the Oshkosh Regatta in 1920. The old National had a terrible time to tow the boat and the trailer was not successful as it was not heavy enough."
1920
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Gas Station
August 15, 1931
An automobile with a trailer in tow is parked at a Cities Service gas station. The trailer is carrying the racing yacht "Black Point III" to Neenah, Wisconsin for the Inland Lake Yachting Associati...
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...
New Dinghies
April 28, 1928
A trailer loaded with two new dinghies is parked on the brick drive at Black Point Estate. An automobile identified as "Thompson's Ford" is parked behind it. The dinghies had been recently built by...
Boat Track
September 1928
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...
Buggy on Forested Road
View down narrow, unpaved road surrounded by trees towards a man and woman in a buggy pulled by a single horse coming up the road. There is a fence on the left.
Women with Buggy
View down unpaved road towards a woman posing sitting in a horse-drawn buggy at a fork in the road. Three children are standing in a field on the side of the road next to her.
