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| 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... |
| Date: | 06 18 1989 |
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| Description: | Overhead view of four children relaxing in a wading pool. |
| Date: | 06 22 1983 |
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| Description: | Woman stays cool by sitting in a small plastic pool while pouring cups of water on her head. |
| Date: | 08 01 1970 |
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| Description: | To escape the heat, teenage girls have a water fight in the backyard pool they built. |
| Date: | 08 10 1964 |
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| Description: | A rubber raft serves as the launching point for diving and other water play on a hot summer day. |
| Date: | 07 20 1987 |
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| Description: | A little girl offers her place at a fountain to a large Newfoundland-mix dog who takes a drink on a hot day. |
| Date: | 07 20 1988 |
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| Description: | Young men clamor to catch a Frisbee during a beach game. |
| Date: | 06 05 1989 |
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| Description: | People costumed as Smokey The Bear and Woodsy Owl play outdoors with children as a forest service worker looks on. |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Six female flight nurses in a swimming pool during aquatic training at the at Alameda Naval Air Strip. Four of the women are in a raft, and two women are i... |
| 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: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Barbara Payton posing for a publicity photograph for the film "Trapped." She is standing on the pool deck in between the hand rails for the pool ladder. |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Barbara Payton posing outdoors for a publicity portrait for the film "Trapped." She is standing against a tree wearing a swimsuit. A swimming pool is below... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Publicity still for the film "Trapped." Barbara Payton is wearing a white bathing suit and sitting on a diving board above a swimming pool. |
| Date: | 07 08 1967 |
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| Description: | Several girls in swimsuits are standing in shallow water. Caption reads: "IT WAS a brisk day when inner core children visited West Bend park. But the child... |
| Date: | 01 23 1968 |
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| Description: | A man sitting in an inner tube and wearing swim trunks and a boater hat is using a cane to point to a document, which he is showing to a woman standing in ... |
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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... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A group of children swimming below a cascade on a river. The area is surrounded by trees. |
| Date: | 09 1973 |
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| Description: | Teen boy resting on an inner tube while floating down the Apple River, a very popular summer activity. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Children are playing in the water and in the sand at a beach. |
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| Description: | Actress Pearl White stands on the beach with two small boys — Billie and Buddie — one of whom is her nephew. The three are digging for clams. White wears a... |
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