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| Date: | 01 02 1928 |
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| Description: | John Nelson, background far right, and [?] Thompson pose next to the racing sailboat they are building for Ernst Schmidt. A portion of the planking has bee... |
| Date: | 03 11 1928 |
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| Description: | Covers have been pulled aside to reveal the new motor boat which sits in front of a large shed in Till Stuyvesant's yard in Lake Geneva. There is a large t... |
| Date: | 08 16 1928 |
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| Description: | 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 buildi... |
| Date: | 08 1928 |
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| Description: | 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... |
| Date: | 08 1928 |
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| Description: | 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 th... |
| Date: | 03 24 1928 |
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| Description: | The "Green Dragon" racing yacht, left and a dinghy under construction at John M. Nelson's workshop. |
| Date: | 04 28 1928 |
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| Description: | 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 i... |
| Date: | 02 11 1930 |
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| Description: | View of the Black Point boathouses taken from the frozen ice of Geneva Lake. Blocks of cut ice are in the foreground. A description of the photograph writt... |
| Date: | 09 01 1931 |
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| Description: | Albert Madlener, in rear with cap, and Ernst Schmidt, third from right, pose with a group of nine women officials of Chicago's Grant Hospital. In a written... |
| Date: | 08 1932 |
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| Description: | Crews work on their boats at the dock of the Lake Geneva Yacht Club after one of the races of the 1932 Inland Lake Yachting Association Regatta. The tent f... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view across water towards the starting line of a two-oared scull race on Geneva Lake. At the front of the line a judge wearing a dark jac... |
| Date: | 02 1933 |
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| Description: | Several 16 foot sloops are shown at various stages of construction in a building at the Geneva Lake Boat Company. Untrimmed canvas extends from the deck of... |
| Date: | 09 01 1946 |
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| Description: | View from front of motorboat of Ernst Schmidt (driving) and Catherine Schuelke enjoying an outing on Geneva Lake. |
| Date: | 08 08 1941 |
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| Description: | View across water of women and children sitting on the deck of the Sailing School Ship on Lake Geneva. Herb Taylor, partly obscured on the afterdeck, was t... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Elevated view across water towards an unidentified man standing on the deck of the steamship "Arrow," owned by Shelton Sturges. It is docked at a pier near... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | View from water over boats towards the four-story wood frame Second Empire style Whiting House Hotel standing on the lake shore at Lake Geneva. Several set... |
| Date: | 08 01 1954 |
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| Description: | Ernst C. Schmidt and Mary Helen Anderson stand on a pier and pose next to the Black Point launch "Nepenthe." |
| Date: | 08 2013 |
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| Description: | View down pier towards yacht named "Louise" tied up to a post. The yacht is used to take tourists around the lake. |
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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 ... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| 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 ... |
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