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| 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 30 1953 |
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| Description: | View from the beach of people swimming, playing in the sand, and sunbathing. |
| 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... |
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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: | 06 1944 |
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| Description: | George Miller is reporting a problem to Lifeguard Lois Gardner. She is standing on a platform near a chair, and is wearing a whistle on a chain around her ... |
| Date: | 08 02 1944 |
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| Description: | Four WAC lieutenants posing on the rail of the life launch. From left to right are Virginia Harmon, Jane Dunning, Ardeth Cauble, and Helen Durr. |
| Date: | 06 28 1945 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Nancy Keenan standing on a beach in a lifeguard swimming suit. She is one of 7 women lifeguards out of a group of 19 who patrol the Madison be... |
| Date: | 07 26 1914 |
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| Description: | A group, mostly youth, on the shores of Lake Michigan at South Shore beach in the Bay View neighborhood. Caption on glass plate reads, "On the Sands, South... |
| 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. |
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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: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Chulew family (from left): Marcia, Natalie, and Manny at Schwartz's Resort. |
| Date: | 07 04 1949 |
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| Description: | A man taking a picture of two women at the Vilas Park beach. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | A beach on Lake Michigan near the Milwaukee Yacht Club. Men, women, and children relax on the beach. In the background many boats are on the water. |
| Date: | 08 10 1949 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Preston E. "Sandy" McNall Jr. holds her young son, Bruce, while on a beach. The McNalls are from West Lafayette, Indiana and are spending the summer a... |
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| Description: | Valentine's Day postcard of woman sitting on the beach with Cupid standing behind her holding a quiver of arrows. She is wearing a bathing costume and cap.... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 07 1940 |
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| Description: | Two boys and two girls swimming at the Bad River at Copper Falls State Park. One of the girls is diving off the dock that also has a platform. In the backg... |
| Date: | 08 22 1950 |
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| Description: | Beach scene at Lake Ripley showing three young women under an umbrella. |
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