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Sailboats on Geneva Lake
1930
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 sailboat, and another person stands next to Erns...
Sailing on Geneva Lake
1945
Alma Schmidt Petersen controls the sheets on a small sailboat. Her husband, William F. Petersen, sits aft. The child between them is unidentified. The sail has red and white stripes. In the far bac...
The Black Point
1908
View across water towards the Black Point sailing on Geneva Lake. Yerkes Observatory is in the far background.
Boathouses at Black Point
February 11, 1930
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 written by Ernst Schmidt reads, "The channel cu...
View from Black Point
1930
View from hill, looking northwest, across Geneva Lake from the main house at Black Point Estate, taken in the spring of the year.
Sailing School
August 8, 1941
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 the instructor.
