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Four Boys in a Boat #377

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Description: Ashley Bennett and three friends in a homemade sailboat. This was captioned: "Going to Join the Navy."
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Sailboats in Fox Lake Area

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Description: Fox Lake Area. View down pier towards sailboats docked, and people standing at the end of the dock.
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Kenneth T. White Family

Date: 07 12 1955
Description: Jane and Kenneth White and their daughters, Sue, Kay, and Barbara, and the family dog, Perky, in their lightning class sailboat on Lake Mendota.
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Boating Scene

Date: 1909
Description: View of a boating scene off of the shore of Marinette and Menominee. Two boys are walking on the pier on the left, and a crowd of people are gathered at th...
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Chautauqua Park

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Description: View down pier, with people standing at the end, and two sailboats in the water, with the one on the left manned by two men. There is an excursion boat doc...
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Sailing in Dering Harbor

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Description: View of a family sailing in Dering Harbor. The sailboat is carrying a man, woman, and girl. In the background is a small ship.
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The "Lorely"

Date: 1910
Description: Elsa Seipp Madlener, center, poses with her husband Albert, right, and another man, possibly Ed Daily, the engineer of the steam launch "Lorely." A handwri...
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Pete Barrett, Olympic Finn Class Sailing Representative

Date: 09 05 1964
Description: Pete Barrett, United States representative in the Olympic Finn class sailing in Tokyo, with his family. Left to right, Mrs. Pete (Laurie) Barrett, Tara, si...
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After the Storm

Date: 08 1916
Description: Bystanders watch as men bail out a sailboat and others assess the damage to their craft after a storm hit during the Inland Lake Yachting Association Regat...
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Sailing School

Date: 08 08 1941
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...
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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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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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Christmas Morning

Date: 12 25 1931
Description: The three children of Herbert P. and Margaret Bouer Brumder are smiling as they are posing standing in front of the Christmas tree holding gifts. From left...
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Sailing on Pine Lake

Date: 1922
Description: An unidentified young woman, left, is holding Barbara Brumder on her lap in the stern of a sailboat. A second young woman is holding a sheet (rope) with as...
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Homemade Sailboat

Date: 1936
Description: Two boys are sailing a homemade boat on Archibald Lake. Forested lands are in the background.

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