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Barrel Race on the Lake

Date: 06 26 1909
Description: Two men paddle barrels with their hands and feet while a third tips over on Pewaukee Lake at the Waukesha Beach recreation area. Other people watch both f...
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Che-ne-qua Hotel

Date: 1907
Description: Elevated view of the Che-ne-qua Hotel on Pine Lake.
Postcard

Ice House Bay

Date: 1913
Description: Ice House Bay and the lake. A man and a dog are standing on dock in the foreground, and on the right is a man in rowboat. There is a large building on the...
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Pewaukee Lake

Date: 09 04 1906
Description: Three boys on the shore of Pewaukee Lake. One boy is fishing, while the other two observe. A boat dock and boathouse are in the background.
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Boathouse and Boats

Date: 1900
Description: View of the Draper Hall boathouse on Lac La Belle with a row of boats in front of the building. Two men stand on the pier.
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Swimmers at Jeffry's Mill

Date: 1933
Description: A diver is caught mid-air as another prepares to dive from a diving platform on the shore of the mill pond at Jeffry's Mill at Eagleville. A boy watches fr...
Postcard

Koelch Resort, Pike Lake

Date: 1909
Description: View along shoreline towards the Koelch Resort. There is a sailboat and rowboats in the lake near a pier. Horses are standing under the trees at the shorel...
Drawing

Brumder Properties

Date: 1929
Description: An unsigned, hand-drawn map of properties owned by members of the Brumder family on the northwest shore of Pine Lake in 1929. Named Villa Henrietta, the pr...
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Herman and Muggsy

Date: 1920
Description: Herman Otto Brumder (1880-1950) standing on the boat landing of the Pine Lake home built by his father, George Brumder. Herman is holding a treat for his ...
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George Brumder

Date: 1901
Description: George Brumder, Milwaukee publisher and businessman, standing on his pier at Pine Lake. He is wearing a suit and hat. There is a low wall on the right, whi...
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Brumder's Landing

Date: 1925
Description: A view looking east over Pine Lake from the terrace in front of Villa Henrietta, the Brumder family summer home. In the foreground is a boat landing with l...
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The Vidette

Date: 1917
Description: View across water towards an unidentified man wearing a cap sitting on the deck of a sailboat, the Vidette at the pier of Villa Henrietta, the Brumd...
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Toy Boat

Date: 1925
Description: Herbert Edmund Brumder, wearing a bathing suit, is standing on a wooden pier holding a large toy sailboat. An unidentified woman is sitting on the steps of...
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Sailing on Pine Lake

Date: 1925
Description: View across water towards Herbert Edmund Brumder. He is using an oar as a tiller on a rowboat fitted with a small sail. A small bathhouse and swimming pier...
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At Pine Lake

Date: 1927
Description: View towards the front of a sailboat in which Herbert E. Brumder, wearing a visor, right, and an unidentified boy on the left, are sitting. The sailboat w...
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Water Slide

Date: 1929
Description: View across water towards Margaret Bouer (Mrs. Herbert P.) Brumder, wearing a light-colored dress and cap, standing on a pier observing as children are pla...
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Sailboats

Date: 1929
Description: Five dinghy sailboats are moored to the right side of a wide pier on Pine Lake. Several unidentified young men and women are walking on the pier. There is ...
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Race on Pine Lake

Date: 1929
Description: A young woman, possibly the photographer's daughter Barbara Brumder, is posing sitting on the deck of a wooden Chris-Craft power boat moored to a pier. The...
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On the Pier at Pine Lake

Date: 1929
Description: Barbara Brumder, right, lounging on a pier and watching as an unidentified girl next to her is petting the Brumder family Springer Spaniel. The girls are w...
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Water Slide

Date: 1930
Description: View across water towards a group of boys and girls, likely all members of the extended Brumder family, playing and swimming near a water slide at the end ...

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