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| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View across the water near the shoreline of the municipal swimming pool. The pool may have been along the Wisconsin River with slides and sandy beaches. A ... |
| Date: | 12 11 1965 |
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| Description: | Action shot during the University of Wisconsin, Nebraska swim meet. U.W. students, Robert Blanchard in the foreground and Gil LaCroix, next to him, are sho... |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Elevated view towards dock, and a diving platform at Camp Brosius. A sailboat, rowboat and canoes are in the lake. Several people are swimming or standing ... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Two men and five women posing in knee-high water. Leonore Judkins Middleton is crouching in front of her husband, Forest Middleton. The woman to the left o... |
| 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: | 1907 |
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| Description: | An unidentified young woman wearing a white dress is standing on the prow of a skiff watching fifteen children playing in shallow water. A second woman is ... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Color illustration of boys swimming and sailing in Lake Geneva. Caption reads: "Boating and Bathing at Young Men's Christian Association Camp, Lake Geneva,... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | A view, looking south, at the intersection of West Mt. Vernon Avenue and North 65th Street. In the foreground is a shallow pool where children are playing,... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Men, women and children in modest swimming suits enjoy splashing and playing in the water at Sandy Beach, a resort established by Gerhard Strauss in 1921. ... |
| Date: | 06 26 1955 |
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| Description: | Swimming instructor Ann Sundt checking on swimmers in the shallow water at the Vilas Park Beach. |
| Date: | 06 26 1955 |
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| Description: | Three girls running into the water of Lake Wingra at the Vilas Park Beach. |
| Date: | 06 26 1955 |
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| Description: | Boys playing in the water of Lake Wingra at the Vilas Park Beach. |
| Date: | 07 1955 |
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| Description: | Jimmy Pink, Steven Lee and Stuart Lee (left to right), all from Darlington, enjoy the crowded swimming pool. They are wearing masks and flippers. |
| Date: | 08 1955 |
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| Description: | Nineteen Wisconsin State Journal carrier boys at the Blue Mounds State Park swimming pool. Some are shown diving off a platform named for the previo... |
| 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: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Wallace Donelson Rumsey, the photographer's younger brother, is doing a back flip dive off a raft into Archibald Lake. He was named after Civil War General... |
| 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. |
| Date: | 07 13 1957 |
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| Description: | Summer music camp participants shown coming from a swim on the University of Wisconsin campus. The teenagers are (left to right): Kay Halverson (of Menasha... |
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