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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: | 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: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Women sun bathe near an express highway in Milwaukee. |
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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: | 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... |
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| Description: | A large group of men, women, and children, wearing swimming attire, standing in a lake. Industrial buildings are in the distance along the shoreline. |
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| Description: | A woman is standing in a rowboat in a diving position teaching four women in a lake how to dive. The rest of the women are in shirts printed with S.S.B.H. ... |
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| Description: | Woman and child standing in a lake in shallow water. Other people are standing in the water behind them. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of a small group of men, women, and children standing waist-deep in the water. |
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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: | 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: | 07 1972 |
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| Description: | A group of African American children are playing in the sand on Bradford Beach. Other children and adults are wading into the lake or are sitting on the sa... |
| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of a crowd of mostly young men and women enjoying a sunny day at South Shore Beach. |
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| Description: | A line of female contestants at a local beauty pageant for Wisconsin-wide media outlets and community organizations. They are standing before a turquoise c... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| 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... |
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