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Water Skiing on Lake Geneva

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Description: View across water towards a man and woman sitting in a motor boat, which is towing another man and woman water skiing behind it.
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People Relaxing Outdoors

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Description: View of a group of individuals relaxing outdoors. Several men and women read, while others sit on the ground or in a hammock.
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Slalom Water Skiing

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Description: A young woman is sitting in the back of a motorboat watching a man slalom skiing just behind her.
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Perfume Factory

Date: 07 1945
Description: View from side of women sitting in a row working on an assembly line in a perfume factory.
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Women Workers at Chaney Instruments

Date: 1943
Description: A woman is using a metal rod to handle glass objects on a tray. Caption reads: "Women workers at Chaney Instruments." Another woman in the background is wo...
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Outdoor Gathering

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of two women and one man are posing around two young children sitting in a hammock in yard.
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Group at Lake Geneva

Date: 1918
Description: Group portrait of nine women and two men at Lake Geneva. Trees are in the background.
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Group at Lake Geneva

Date: 1918
Description: Outdoor informal group portrait of four women standing together at Lake Geneva. Trees are in the background.
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Women Workers at Chaney Instrument Company

Date: 1943
Description: Five women are sitting around a table with machinery and various pieces of equipment. Three of the women are drinking coffee, and one woman is smoking. Wom...
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James Sanford Home

Date: 1875
Description: Young man and two women in a horse-drawn wagon in front of the fenced yard of the James Sanford home. There is a small patch of snow on the ground in front...
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Alma and Tessa Sailing

Date: 09 08 1916
Description: Sisters Alma, in dark glasses, and Tessa (Clara Theresa) Schmidt aboard the "Water Witch" at the pier at Black Point. Both women are wearing long white dre...
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Kayes Park House

Date: 1885
Description: Stereograph of the large hotel at Kayes Park on the south shore of Geneva Lake. There are two girls standing in the foreground, with well-dressed women in ...
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Outdoor Group Portrait

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Description: Stereograph of a group portrait of five people, including three men, two women, and an infant, posing on the grass in a wooded area. In the background, on ...
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Group at Lake Geneva

Date: 1918
Description: Group of men and women seated in the grass at the side of a road. One man wears a sailor's uniform. Automobiles are parked along the road in the background...
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Lake Shore Porter's Park

Date: 1890
Description: Stereograph view along shoreline of Geneva Lake at Porter's Park. A man sits in a canoe at the rocky shoreline while a woman sits and reads on a rustic ben...
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Swimming at Delavan Lake

Date: 1920
Description: Swimmers posing for a portrait in Delavan Lake.
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Lorena Taylor Holloway

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Description: Lorena Taylor Holloway, Richard Quinney's maternal grandmother, standing in a farmyard with a building, milkcans and a fenced field in the background.
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Sailboats on Geneva Lake

Date: 1930
Description: A young man in the foreground, possibly Ernst Schmidt, stands looking out at sailboats on Geneva Lake. In the foreground on the left a woman is on a sailbo...
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Baby Richard Quinney

Date: 1934
Description: Baby Richard Quinney held by his mother, Alice Quinney, in the farmyard.
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Students in School Room

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Description: A full room of students at the State Normal(?) School. All of the students appear to be female. A line of possible teachers are in front of the blackboard.

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