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Explore more than 100,000 collection items online through the Society’s digital collections. For over two decades, we’ve been scanning, photographing, and digitizing materials from our collections, creating a rich and growing digital archive that brings history closer to you.
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Swimmers at Vilas Park Beach
June 26, 1955
Boys playing in the water of Lake Wingra at the Vilas Park Beach.
Swimmers at Vilas Park Beach
June 26, 1955
Three girls running into the water of Lake Wingra at the Vilas Park Beach.
Vilas Park Beach Lifeguards
June 21, 1960
Two Vilas park beach lifeguards, one wearing earmuffs, on a chilly summer day.
Lifeguard Helps Open Madison Beaches for Summer
June 15, 1957
Lifeguard Nancy Thomsen (5524 Lake Mendota Drive) warns a youngster not to go into deep water at the Tenney Park beach on the official opening day for the summer of the Madison swimming beaches. Sw...
Madison's Vilas Park Beach
August 16, 1950
A lifeguard observes swimmers at the beach in Vilas Park. A rowboat used by the lifeguard is on the beach.
Air Has Too Much Nip for a Dip
June 27, 1957
Lifeguard Sherwin Straus sits watching one fully-clothed person standing near the water on the lake shore beach on a day too cold to swim.
