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Black Point

Date: 07 1958
Description: North front of Black Point, showing the stick style detailing in the gable end. There is a small porch on the third floor with steep stairs leading to the ...
Photograph

Alma on the Porch

Date: 1942
Description: Alma Schmidt Petersen poses seated in a wicker chair on the porch at Black Point. She is wearing a dress and light coat. There is a large-leafed potted pla...
Photograph

View of Black Point

Date: 05 1928
Description: The main house at Black Point, with its distinctive tower, is seen through the leafless trees from Geneva Lake. The bath house sits at the water's edge. Th...
Photograph

Elsa Seipp Madlener

Date: 1955
Description: A handwritten note describes this portrait as: "Aunt Elsa in her summer house "The Lindens" when she was eighty years old." She is wearing a print dress an...
Postcard

Black Point

Date: 1907
Description: Hand-colored postcard bearing the inscription "Residence of Mrs. Conrad Seipp, Lake Geneva, Wis." The upper portion of the south side of the main house at ...
Photograph

Champion Ginkgo Tree

Date: 1979
Description: A specimen of Ginkgo biloba judged to be the largest example of the species in Wisconsin in 1979. It was located at Covenant Harbor Camp at Lake Gen...
Photograph

Sandy Beach Resort

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Description: View across water towards a section of Sandy Beach Resort. There are people on the lawn on the left next to buildings. Two women are talking on a porch in ...
Photograph

Sandy Beach Resort on Geneva Lake

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Description: View from shoreline of Sandy Beach Resort. The building near the pier on the left has a sign on the roof for the resort. Along the shoreline are buildings,...
Photograph

Walter Koehn

Date: 1979
Description: Wally Koehn (1915-1998) posing with his left forearm resting against the giant trunk of a northern catalpa (Catalpa speciosa) on the Wrigley estate ...
Book or Pamphlet

Lake Geneva Hotel

Date: 1915
Description: A view across water towards the Lake Geneva Hotel, also called Hotel Geneva. There are several boats and piers at the water's edge. Two men are boating in ...
Book or Pamphlet

Main Street

Date: 1915
Description: A view down Main Street looking east from the Y.M.C.A. building.
Book or Pamphlet

Hotel Lane

Date: 1915
Description: A view of Lake Street, looking West from Broad Street. Hotel Lane is on the right side, and several automobiles are parked backed-up to the curb in front.
Book or Pamphlet

Briarwood Residence

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Description: Exterior view across lawn towards the John J. Williams Sr. and Jr. summer residence "Briarwood." The house has a large wrap-around porch.
Photograph

Geneva Lake Dock

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Description: View from shoreline through the trees towards a man and a woman walking down a dock. At the end of the dock is a man is holding up a woman on his shoulders...
Book or Pamphlet

Lake Geneva Scrapbook Page

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Description: A scrapbook page with six photographs and some captions. One image is captioned: "Was on the Oregon when Spanish fleet was destroyed."
Photograph

Lake Geneva Scrapbook

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Description: Six photographs of water scenes mounted on a scrapbook page.
Postcard

Greetings from Lake Geneva

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Description: Two views of Lake Geneva. Crab apple blossoms at Library Park, and the Municipal Bathing Beach adjoining Library Park. Caption reads: "Greetings from Lake ...
Postcard

Aeroplane View Davidson Hall and part of Academy Campus

Date: 1940
Description: Aerial view of the campus of the Northwestern Military and Naval Academy. Caption reads: "Aeroplane View Davidson Hall and part of Academy Campus, Northwes...
Postcard

Hotel Glenwood

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Description: Colorized postcard view of three buildings with verandas, comprising a hotel on a hill. People are gathered on the lawn around a picnic table. A large flow...
Postcard

Ceylon Court, Maytag Home

Date: 1937
Description: Colorized postcard view from pier towards a private lakeside home on a hill, with a large garden leading down to the lake. Caption reads: "Ceylon Court, Ma...

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