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| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Theta Chi fraternity members standing on the pier in front of the Lake Mendota Boathouse located at the foot of North Carroll Street. The boathouse was des... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Industrial safety poster or sign featuring pin-up girls. The poster reminds factory workers to wear their safety goggles. The poster reads: "O Baby! Can yo... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Men, women, and children swim in the water between two docks. Children in the foreground play with a flotation device. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A rowboat rests on the sand at a beach while sunbathers gather around umbrellas set up nearby. A boardwalk and several buildings are in in the background. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of men, women and children standing in long rows along the beach, with fingers touching their shoulders, caught in the middle of an exercise ... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Elevated view across water towards couples, adults, and children sunbathing on the beach and wading in the water. In the distance is an establishment with ... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View toward bathing beach and seashore, with people sunbathing near umbrellas and wading in the water. Summer homes are in the background on the cliffs alo... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View along rocky shoreline towards adults and children on the seashore, nde wading in the water. In the distance are cottages and other buildings, possibly... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Dipsy Baths outbuilding and surrounding beach. Umbrellas are set up in the sand where people sunbathe or wade in the water, and an Ame... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A woman dressed in a bathing suit, shoes and cap is about to dive off of a pier into the water. A rowboat is tethered on the right. Trees can be seen on th... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of a water slide at Mirror Lake State Park. A woman rides down the slide into the lake, and a few people stand on the platform behind h... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "Wally Reid and Billy ready for a swimming lesson in the pool at the beautiful Reid home." |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Dorothy Davenport Reid, Wallace Reid, Jr., and the silent film star Wallace Reid in bathing suits at the edge of a swimming pool. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | In this flirtatious scene still from "The Wonderman," Henri D'Alour (played by Georges Carpentier, the French boxer, aviator, and actor) holds the hand of ... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | In a publicity still from "The Wonderman," Henri D'Alour (played by Georges Carpentier, the French boxer, aviator, and actor) stands with his arm around Do... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View across the water near the shoreline of the municipal swimming pool. The pool may have been along the Wisconsin River with slides and sandy beaches. A ... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Alvin Kraenzlein and his daughter, Claudine, sitting outdoors together on an overturned boat on a dock. She is holding a broom. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Leonore Middleton sitting on wooden steps leading to the screened porch of a tar paper shack. There is an awning over the side window and a short brick chi... |
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