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| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | An unidentified young man, smiling broadly, is driving a painted wooden boat with inboard motor. There are nine women passengers. The women are wearing bat... |
| 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: | 1939 |
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| Description: | View across beach towards a woman wearing a dress sitting on the top of a picnic table. Three girls in swimming suits and caps are standing near her. A lif... |
| Date: | 06 1937 |
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| Description: | The caption on the reverse of this photograph reads: "Steiro girls sitting on lake shore at Trout Lake." The girls are wearing swimming suits, and a dog is... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | A child is posing, perhaps in mid push-up, in a front yard. A caption identifies the child as Rudy Vertiska. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | A man and his wife are wearing swimming suits and posing sitting on the beach. Each of them is holding a small child in their laps. People are standing and... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Two women in bathing suits and wearing brimmed hats are posing sitting on a stone wall. The description on the reverse of the print reads: "Two fair bather... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of boats pulled up onto a low ridge of gravel at Potawatomi State Park. Behind the boats is a young woman wearing a bathing suit and ca... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | A child wearing a bathing suit is standing with their feet in shallow water as waves approach the shore. On the reverse of the print is written: "A tiny to... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | View across water towards Girl Scouts in five canoes setting out from shore on Rice Lake at Camp Hickory Hill. There is a temporary shade structure and woo... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline towards a long pier on Trout Lake leading to a diving board on the left, and diving platforms on the right. There are small sailboats t... |
| 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: | 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. |
| 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... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | View across water towards a group of boys and girls, likely all members of the extended Brumder family, playing and swimming near a water slide at the end ... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | A boy is hanging upside down from the diving raft on Archibald Lake. Similar to many items owned by the Holt family, this raft probably was made by hand wi... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Two boys are sailing a homemade boat on Archibald Lake. Forested lands are in the background. |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | A woman standing on a shoreline is showing the fish she caught on the hook with the cane pole. A wooden canoe is beached beside her on the sand. |
| Date: | 08 16 1937 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "The Beach, Pinewood Lodge - Rhinelander, Wis." Guests are enjoying the water in Lake Thompson at the Pinewood Lodge. There is a dock ... |
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