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| Date: | 07 1959 |
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| Description: | Dickey Chapelle, photographer, on the same Milwaukee beach where she learned to swim as a young girl. She was covering "Operation Inland Seas" celebrating ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Popular bathing beaches like this one on Lake Michigan offered relief from the heat as well as the opportunity to be seen in the latest fashions of the 191... |
| Date: | 08 12 1984 |
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| Description: | A bikini-clad woman snaps a self-portrait with a long cable release attached to a camera as she is tossed into the air by a group of men on the beach. Othe... |
| Date: | 07 10 1967 |
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| Description: | A boy and girl play in the sand at the beach. |
| Date: | 06 21 1957 |
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| Description: | View along shoreline of crowded Bradford beach. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Woman with children grilling hot dogs and wieners at the beach. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of the Artesian Well near the intersection of Wisconsin and Minnesota (later renamed Wacouta) Streets. The following is printed on the back of ... |
| Date: | 07 20 1988 |
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| Description: | Young men clamor to catch a Frisbee during a beach game. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Group of children playing with a makeshift diving board at Brittingham Bay swimming hole. |
| Date: | 02 08 1935 |
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| Description: | Women preparing for a picnic at the beach with their International C-1 wood-paneled ("woody") station wagon. |
| Date: | 07 20 1988 |
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| Description: | Two men walking along the edge of Lake Michigan. |
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| Description: | Men, women and children soaking up the sun on the beach of a lake (probably Lake Michigan). The children are digging in the sand in the foreground, and the... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Two men sit on a pier with a beach and several homes in the background. |
| Date: | 09 07 1927 |
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| Description: | Women employees of Thordarson? in bathing suits on the beach during the First Girls Party to Rock Island. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | The bath house at Tenney Park (demolished), on the south shore of Lake Mendota. Designed by George B. Ferry and built in 1913. |
| Date: | 07 05 1933 |
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| Description: | View from beach of people swimming. Some are standing in the sand, and some are on the diving pier out in the water. On the left is part of a water slide. |
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| Description: | A woman and three children, all wearing hats, dresses, and shorts, are at the beach, playing in the sand. Two of the children have toy buckets. Behind them... |
| Date: | 07 1940 |
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| Description: | The bathing beach and bath house at Copper Falls State Park. Two swimmers are sitting and standing on a dock with a platform. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Men, women, and children swimming, playing, and relaxing at the beach at Devil's Lake State Park. Two long docks extend into the water and the scene is rep... |
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