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| Date: | 07 09 1953 |
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| Description: | View of the pier at B.B. Clarke on Lake Monona, scene of the Madison city swim meet. |
| Date: | 07 10 1953 |
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| Description: | Anne Fakler, left, and Nancy Wynn poise for a practice swim during the city swim meet at B.B. Clarke beach on Lake Monona. |
| 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: | 07 07 1928 |
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| Description: | Colorized postcard of the bathing beach near the tourist camping site in Devil's Lake State Park. A diving tower is on the right with a woman diving from t... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Color postcard of the bathing beach at Devil's Lake State Park with a view of the East Bluff. The lake, bluffs and sky are in the background. Many visitor... |
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| Description: | Two women strike a pose on the beach wearing bathing suits. One woman wears a bathing cap, the other a headband. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Beach at the Squires' Evergreen Retreat. Two children stand at the top of the water slide while others play in the water. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Page from the Tansy Camp Fire Girls album kept by Neighborhood House, with groups of girls posing at the end of a pier, in front of tents, on the remains o... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Caption below the illustration reads, "ON A CHICAGO BEACH in 1922 policewomen, patrolling the sands on behalf of morality, confront three offenders." Two p... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Small child standing on the shoreline of a sandy beach, looking out at the waves, at Terry Andrae State Park on Lake Michigan. |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Beach on the Wisconsin River. There is a group of bathers in the water, and a group of tourists on a nearby rock. A steamboat is passing by in the distance... |
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| Description: | A collection of images from Nettland's Roll Inn and other sites around the Dells including: the Narrows, Stand Rock, Lone Rock, and the beach at Lake Delto... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | View along shoreline of a bathing beach on the Wisconsin River at Pine Glen Properties. Bathers on sitting on the beach on the left. Four more people are s... |
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| Description: | View from the water of the beach at the Ravenswood Hotel. A group of people are in the water and along the shoreline. There is a tour boat tied up along th... |
| Date: | 07 27 1960 |
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| Description: | Residents gather at Olbrich Park for the annual East Side Businessman's Association picnic. Families are invited to bring a picnic supper. The event includ... |
| Date: | 06 16 1953 |
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| Description: | View of a crowd of people, mostly in swimsuits, at what might be Vilas Beach on Lake Wingra. There is a concession stand in a building in the background. A... |
| Date: | 08 03 1953 |
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| Description: | Tom Carroll and his son Alan play in the water at the Vilas Park beach. |
| 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 ... |
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