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"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."
Book or Pamphlet

Front and Back of Esterly Harvesting Machine Co. Brochure

Date: 1902
Description: Front and back of 8-page foldout color brochure. Front cover advertises the "All Steel Folding Platform Binder & Mower." Back cover features a horizontal i...
Book or Pamphlet

Esterly Harvesting Machine Co. Brochure

Date: 1902
Description: Inside half-page spread of foldout brochure. Features an illustration of the Esterly Enclosed Gear Mower showing Raising Device. Includes an inset on botto...
Book or Pamphlet

Esterly Harvesting Machine Co. Brochure

Date: 1902
Description: Full-size inside spread of foldout brochure. Features an illustration of the Esterly Steel Binder. Includes the phrase: "Folding platform / no trucks requi...
Book or Pamphlet

Esterly Harvesting Machine Co. Brochure

Date: 1902
Description: Front of 8-page foldout brochure. Includes 4 illustrations of machinery, including the Esterly Steel Binder, Canvas Bundle Carrier, Folding Platform or Tru...
Book or Pamphlet

Inland Lake Yachting Association Brochure

Date: 08 1949
Description: Brochure for the forty-eighth Annual Regatta of the Inland Lake Yachting Association features a photograph of ten sailboats and a motorized judges' boat. E...
Book or Pamphlet

Program for Music by the Lake

Date: 1952
Description: The program for the summer series of concerts sponsored by George Williams College at their College Camp on Geneva Lake was designed by Edmund Elsner of Wi...
Book or Pamphlet

Hotel Glenwood

Date: 1910
Description: The cover of a promotional pamphlet for Hotel Glenwood and Glenwood Springs at the western end of Geneva Lake.
Book or Pamphlet

Hotel Glenwood

Date: 1910
Description: The centerfold of a promotional brochure features a photograph of the Hotel Glenwood and a description of the springs on the grounds. The hotel, with large...
Book or Pamphlet

Scrapbook Cover

Date: 1950
Description: Two pandas "scrap" on the embossed leather cover of a scrapbook bearing the title "Snaps and Scraps." Metallic gold highlights the embossed areas. The scra...
Book or Pamphlet

The Shore Path, E.G. Uihlein's

Date: 1905
Description: Halftone print of the landscaped shoreline and path at Forest Glen, the estate of Edward G. Uihlein, on the western end of Geneva Lake. A flag flies above ...
Book or Pamphlet

Swan Dive

Date: 1905
Description: Halftone print of two divers in mid-air as other young men watch from the pier at the Y.M.C.A. camp on Geneva Lake. A sailboat is moored to the pier, which...
Book or Pamphlet

Lake Geneva Hotel

Date: 1915
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 ...
Book or Pamphlet

Main Street

Date: 1915
Description: A view down Main Street looking east from the Y.M.C.A. building.
Book or Pamphlet

Hotel Lane

Date: 1915
Description: A view of Lake Street, looking West from Broad Street. Hotel Lane is on the right side, and several automobiles are parked backed-up to the curb in front.
Book or Pamphlet

Outlet of Lake Geneva

Date: 1915
Description: The north shore of the Lake Geneva outlet.
Book or Pamphlet

Lake Geneva Express

Date: 1915
Description: The Lake Geneva Express train, engine number 1526, which ran between Lake Geneva and Chicago.
Book or Pamphlet

Briarwood Residence

Date: 
Description: Exterior view across lawn towards the John J. Williams Sr. and Jr. summer residence "Briarwood." The house has a large wrap-around porch.
Book or Pamphlet

Lake Geneva Scrapbook Page

Date: 
Description: A scrapbook page with six photographs and some captions. One image is captioned: "Was on the Oregon when Spanish fleet was destroyed."

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