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| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Exterior front view from Lake Mendota of the Delta Upsilon Fraternity House, located at 640 North Francis Street, erected in 1906. A group of people are o... |
| Date: | 08 02 1945 |
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| Description: | High School girls at a swim class held at the YMCA. |
| Date: | 08 03 1945 |
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| Description: | A Red Cross instructor with a children's swimming class at the Bluemounds swimming pool. The instructor is George Steiner, assistant principal at Madison W... |
| Date: | 08 03 1945 |
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| Description: | Mt. Horeb children and adults splashing in the Bluemound pool during a Red Cross swimming class. |
| Date: | 07 12 1949 |
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| Description: | Bob Trotalli, a recent graduate of West High School, has a summer job as a life guard at the Willows Beach on Lake Mendota. He is shown talking to Betsy Mi... |
| Date: | 01 04 1950 |
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| Description: | Instructor Doris Greene, at right, teaches swimming class to seven young women as part of the YWCA Winter Activities program. At the edge of the pool are (... |
| Date: | 01 04 1950 |
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| Description: | Instructor Patricia Patterson, 621 North Frances Street, teaches the correct technique for the side stroke to Alice Well, 2 Langdon Street, who is seated o... |
| Date: | 06 08 1953 |
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| Description: | Sally Smith directs a group of beginning boy swimmers during swimming lessons at Lake Wingra. |
| Date: | 06 08 1953 |
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| Description: | Instructor Mary Pew shows arm movements to a girls swim class during swimming lessons at Lake Wingra. |
| Date: | 07 09 1953 |
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| Description: | A group of nine girls test the water of Lake Wingra prior to beginning a swimming lesson. |
| Date: | 03 27 1954 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin Dolphin Club swimmers prepare for a show at the pool in Lathrop Hall. |
| Date: | 03 27 1954 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin Dolphin Club swimmers prepare for a show at Lathrop Hall, practicing their performance positions in the water. |
| Date: | 05 17 1958 |
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| Description: | Almost 200 girls from 20 Wisconsin high schools took part in a strenuous day of recreation planned by the Women's Physical Education Club at Lathrop Hall a... |
| Date: | 02 04 1961 |
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| Description: | These four YMCA swimmers will be competing in the 160-yard freestyle relay hoping to earn a ninth victory. Left to right are: John Saunders, Cherokee Heigh... |
| Date: | 03 21 1961 |
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| Description: | A quartet of University of Wisconsin mermaids are splashing through its aquatic paces in a final dress rehearsal for the annual Dolphin Club Swim Show in t... |
| Date: | 03 28 1961 |
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| Description: | The new swimming pool at Madison West High School was recently filled with 125,000 gallons of water. In addition to use by the junior and senior high physi... |
| Date: | 07 10 1961 |
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| Description: | Underwater photograph of a youth learning to swim in a Sun Prairie pool. |
| Date: | 07 10 1961 |
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| Description: | Underwater photograph of several youth learning to swim in a Sun Prairie pool. |
| Date: | 07 13 1957 |
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| Description: | Summer music camp participants shown coming from a swim on the University of Wisconsin campus. The teenagers are (left to right): Kay Halverson (of Menasha... |
| Date: | 07 19 1960 |
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| Description: | At right, Berthaida Fairbanks, physical education and Red Cross instructor, is standing on the side of a swimming pool training the women in the pool how t... |
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