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| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from hill of a waterskier and motorboat on Rock Lake. |
| 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. |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view of people swimming and standing in the lake. People are out in boats in the background. Caption reads: "Thoma's Bathing Beach, L... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View across water towards a lakeside resort. The largest building has three stories, and below it is a small, sandy beach near a dock. Caption reads: "View... |
| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Color postcard view of a crowded bathing beach at Lake Wingra. |
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| Description: | View across water towards the bath house and bathing beach at Brittingham Park on Monona Bay. Caption reads: "Bath House, Brittingham Park, Madison, Wis." |
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| Description: | View of a crowded bathing beach on Lake Monona. Blankets are spread out on the lawn. |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | View of a Lake Michigan beach. Three girls are sitting on the sand in the foreground. In the background people are in the water. A steamer is on the horizo... |
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| Description: | View along shoreline of a bathing beach with many people on and near a pier. There are rowboats in the water on the right. Caption reads: "Brighton Beach, ... |
| Date: | 06 21 1960 |
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| Description: | Two Vilas park beach lifeguards, one wearing earmuffs, on a chilly summer day. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Rawley Point Lighthouse, located in the Point Beach State Forest. It is 111 feet tall. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Young girl at the beach writing her name in the sand. |
| Date: | 09 1963 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a two people strolling on Algoma Beach. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Several people in bathing suits and casual wear are relaxing on a beach and in the water at a Geneva Lake beach. Several people are also sitting behind a r... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Children are playing in the water and in the sand at a beach. |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Text on reverse: "Magnificent view of Lake Michigan shoreline from Racine Harbor to Wind Point Lighthouse. Photo Courtesy RAMAC." Aerial view of Racine Har... |
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