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Water Skiing

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Description: View from back of a boat of a young man and woman water skiing. The man is slalom skiing on the left, and the woman is using two skis on the right.
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Water Skiing on Lake Geneva

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Description: View across water towards a man and woman sitting in a motor boat, which is towing another man and woman water skiing behind it.
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Slalom Water Skiing

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Description: A young woman is sitting in the back of a motorboat watching a man slalom skiing just behind her.
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Returning to Shore

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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...
Postcard

Public Bath

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Description: A bathing beach on an island near a bridge, with people in the water and on the beach within an enclosed area. A canoe and rowboat are pulled up on the sho...
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Lincoln Center Camp Beach

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Description: View from shoreline of a lake towards several children climbing or standing on a wooden pier. On the side of the pier is a wooden slide that angles into th...
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Swimming in Bay City

Date: 06 20 1966
Description: Group portrait of four young women sitting on the edge of a dock with their feet in the water. One woman is holding a Pepsi bottle. In the background, boat...
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Calisthenics

Date: 1938
Description: A child is posing, perhaps in mid push-up, in a front yard. A caption identifies the child as Rudy Vertiska.
Postcard

Howe's Boat House, Rock Lake

Date: 1910
Description: View down pier towards a boathouse on the shore, with groups of people sitting and standing on the platform in front. A group of people are in a rowboat ne...
Photograph

Paul Arms with His Mother

Date: 1964
Description: Baby Paul Arms playing in the water at a beach with his mother LuRay. His sisters Rita and Mamie are in the background.
Postcard

Thoma's Bathing Beach, Little Cedar Lake

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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...
Photograph

Swarthout Lakeside Park

Date: 1955
Description: A motorboat on Lake Neshonoc is speeding toward the public landing, where there is a car parked and a small group of people has gathered. A man in a swimmi...
Photograph

Griffith Jones

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Description: Actor Griffith Jones on the underwater cave set, preparing to film a scene from the 1948 movie "Miranda." The set contains a platform where some of the fil...
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Herman Brumder

Date: 1895
Description: Herman Otto Brumder (1880-1950) modeling a skirted men's swimsuit on a pier at Pine Lake.
Photograph

Marion Briggs

Date: 1925
Description: Marion Briggs is standing and posing wearing a swimming suit and bathing cap for a full-length photograph. On the reverse of the photograph is written: "He...
Photograph

Toy Boat

Date: 1925
Description: Herbert Edmund Brumder, wearing a bathing suit, is standing on a wooden pier holding a large toy sailboat. An unidentified woman is sitting on the steps of...
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Swimsuit

Date: 1926
Description: Margaret Bouer (Mrs. Herbert P.) Brumder smiling while posing in a boldly patterned swimsuit. A swimming cap and patterned shoes complete her outfit. A pie...
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Swimsuits

Date: 1926
Description: The three children of Herbert P. and Margaret Bouer Brumder are smiling while posing in their swimsuits near Pine Lake. They are, from left, Barbara, Herbe...
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At Pine Lake

Date: 1922
Description: Herbert Paul Brumder posing with his three children near the shore of Pine Lake. He is standing holding Barbara, left, and Herbert Edmund, right, on his hi...
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Young Girl at Wisconsin Dells Minirama

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Description: A young girl wearing a bathing suit is standing in almost knee-deep water in a Miniature model of the Wisconsin Dells. A small excursion boat is in the wat...

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