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| Date: | 07 1972 |
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| Description: | A group of African American children are playing in the sand on Bradford Beach. Other children and adults are wading into the lake or are sitting on the sa... |
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| Description: | A family of four are running along a beach holding hands, all smiling at the photographer. The young boy is holding the leash of a black lab. |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | A family is playing in the water at a beach. The mother is sitting in the shallow water at the shoreline, holding her baby. Another child is standing next ... |
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| Description: | View from rock cliff looking down at four girls standing on a beach in a square, throwing a beach ball to each other. The older girls are standing in the w... |
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| Description: | View looking downhill between two boys in the foreground sitting on logs on the left and right. Another person is walking up the hill path. Below is a grou... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | A woman and a baby are sitting in the shallow water on a sandy shoreline. A man and child are playing with a beach ball nearby further out in the water. Th... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Close-up of two girls playing in the wet sand on the shore of Long Lake. |
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| Description: | Four young men and women are standing in or around a motorboat beached on the sandy shoreline, with people swimming in the lake in the background. One woma... |
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| Description: | View from shoreline towards three boats pulled up on the sandy shore of Crawling Stone Lake. The far shoreline is in the distance. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | View across beach towards a woman wearing a dress sitting on the top of a picnic table. Three girls in swimming suits and caps are standing near her. A lif... |
| Date: | 05 26 1947 |
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| Description: | View across beach towards three children squatting along the shoreline. A grove of trees is on a peninsula in the distance. |
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| Description: | View across water towards a cliff face overlooking a beach and Lake Michigan. |
| Date: | 03 30 1953 |
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| Description: | View of a beach, framed by a tree at the shoreline in the foreground, and trees oon the opposite shoreline. Caption reads: View at Big Foot Beach, State Pa... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | A man and his wife are wearing swimming suits and posing sitting on the beach. Each of them is holding a small child in their laps. People are standing and... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Baby Paul Arms playing in the water at a beach with his mother LuRay. His sisters Rita and Mamie are in the background. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of a crowd of mostly young men and women enjoying a sunny day at South Shore Beach. |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | A group of children, supervised by adults, is playing at the bathing beach on Archibald Lake. On the shore is a tent with a woman sitting inside. Caption r... |
| Date: | 04 24 1957 |
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| Description: | Keith Symon of 1816 Vilas Avenue (front) and John Hunt of 1813 Vilas Avenue (rear) building a sand castle at the Vilas Park beach on a spring day. |
| Date: | 06 27 1957 |
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| Description: | 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. |
| Date: | 06 15 1957 |
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| Description: | 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 ... |
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