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Lake Geneva Downtown Restaurants

Date: 1920
Description: Downtown view. On the left side of the street is a restaurant, a photography store, a drugstore, and an ice cream parlor. On the right side is another ice ...
Photograph

Yerkes Observatory

Date: 1935
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...
Photograph

Iceboats

Date: 
Description: Iceboats at Williams Bay on Lake Geneva.
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of Lake Geneva

Date: 1882
Description: Bird's-eye map of Lake Geneva, looking southwest, with insets of points of interest.
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of Whitewater

Date: 1870
Description: Bird's-eye view of Whitewater, with insets.
Postcard

Williams Bay Depot

Date: 
Description: Elevated view of passengers arriving on the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad train at the Williams Bay station. Many automobiles are parked near the depot, ...
Book or Pamphlet

"Lake Geneva" Title Page

Date: 1904
Description: Title page of a picturesque and descriptive book about Lake Geneva showing two steamboats "Lady Of The Lake" and "Lucius Newberry."
Postcard

County Line Motel in Darien

Date: 1960
Description: County Line Motel on U.S. Highway 14 and Wis. 11.
Postcard

Assembly Grounds Auditorium

Date: 1910
Description: View of the Assembly Grounds Auditorium with horse-drawn carriages on the left and right, and groups of people standing just outside the building. Caption ...
Print

J.M. Bailey Jr. Marble Works

Date: 1873
Description: View of the J.M. Bailey Jr. Marble Works storefront. From the "Combination Atlas-Map of Walworth Co." Chicago.
Postcard

Delavan Lake

Date: 1910
Description: View of the north shore of Delavan Lake with a lighthouse in the background. Also known as "Red Top" and "L.P. Sutter's." Caption reads: North Shore, Delav...
Postcard

Delavan Lake

Date: 1910
Description: View across water towards the Inlet Bridge on Delavan Lake. Caption reads: "Inlet Bridge, Delavan Lake".
Photograph

Delavan Chevy Dealership

Date: 1927
Description: Exterior view of the Chevrolet dealership in Delavan in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows Hall. During the 1860s and 1870s the building was known as the...
Photograph

Institute for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb

Date: 1880
Description: Engraved view of the building and the grounds. On the top of the dome is a wind vane. Pedestrians, an equestrian, and a man in a horse-drawn carriage are i...
Postcard

Delavan Public Library

Date: 1910
Description: Exterior of library with unfinished landscaping. Houses are further down the street on the left. A sign attached to a tree reads: "S Fourth St." Caption re...
Postcard

Mill Pond Lake

Date: 1905
Description: Elevated view of a pond, a stream, and a lake, with a road dividing the pond and stream from the lake. Industrial buildings and a smokestack are in the bac...
Postcard

Walworth Avenue

Date: 
Description: Elevated view of a broad downtown street. Caption reads: "Walworth Avenue, Delavan, Wis."
Photograph

Cobblestone Hotel

Date: 05 16 1932
Description: View from street towards the hotel. In front on the terrace is a telephone pole and a lamppost, and on the right is a parked truck. One sign on the hotel r...
Photograph

Buena Vista House

Date: 
Description: View of the hotel from across the street through trees and a fence. The hotel was later called the Cobblestone Inn. A small building on the left near the h...
Photograph

Buena Vista House

Date: 1940
Description: View across street towards the inn, with three cars parked in front. There is a "Chicken & Steak Dinner" sign, as well as a "Schlitz" beer sign. The cobbl...

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