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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... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of passengers arriving on the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad train at the Williams Bay station. Many automobiles are parked near the depot, ... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Yerkes Observatory. |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | A view of Yerkes Observatory at Williams Bay, Lake Geneva. It was the "largest refracting telescope in the world," according to "Wisconsin: A Guide To The ... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | View across lawn towards a car parked in front of the main building at Holiday Home Camp. The rambling wood frame building has several sets of stairs leadi... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | A simple wood frame cottage is built into the slope of the hill above Geneva Lake at Holiday Home Camp. A second building is seen in the background. |
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| Description: | View across lawn towards a rural schoolhouse near Williams Bay. Hand-tinted lantern slide. |
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| Description: | View across fence and lawn towards a farmhouse. Caption on slide reads: "Farm House near Williams Bay, Wis." Hand-tinted lantern slide. |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Text from front reads: "Summer House–Conference Point, Williams Bay, Wis." In the center is an oval-framed group portrait of 16 men and five women pose in ... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Yerkes Observatory of the University of Chicago at Williams Bay, Wisconsin." Founded in 1892 by astronomer George Ellery Hale and fin... |
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