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| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Jack Mulhall and Louise Lovely meet on a beach surrounded by young women wearing bathing costumes composed mostly of seaweed in "Sirens of the Sea" (Univer... |
| 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: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Exterior front view from Lake Mendota of the Delta Upsilon Fraternity House, located at 640 North Francis Street, erected in 1906. A group of people are o... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View across water towards the bath house. Caption reads: "Bath House, Brittingham Park, Madison, Wis." |
| 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... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Group of ladies on Mission Dock, and "Ollie" Wilson in bathing suit walking by. Ladies identified as Mrs. N.J. Ross (shielding eyes) and Loretta Salmon in ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin-Madison students play on a canoe in Lake Mendota near the campus. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin-Madison students stand on a Lake Mendota pier watching others swim. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | People swimming and diving in Monona Bay near the Brittingham Park bath house. The railroad causeway is in the background. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of a small group of men, women, and children standing waist-deep in the water. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Children swimming and jumping off pier into lake. An adult woman appears to be supervising the children. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Florence (Bis) Lloyd Jones sits in the water at the edge of a lake, probably Lake Monona, wearing inflatable water wings. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Several women and one man wade in Lake Flora Dell. Delia Drew King is second from left, in a white straw hat. A hand-drawn caption beneath the photograph r... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Delia Drew King wades in Lake Flora Dell. There is a hill and shoreline in the background, and a group of people stands near a pier behind Delia. A hand-dr... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | A snapshot of the actress Norma Talmadge wearing a bathing suit. She is sitting on a table behind a rat terrier that is sitting up on its haunches. She was... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A view of homes on Swan Avenue. Most prominent are the screened porches that cover the facade of the homes. Two women are walingk down the sidewalk toward ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Vacationers wade at a beach near a row of what appear to be hotel buildings. Groups of people sit near boats onshore and a group of women sits at the end o... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a beach and houses that line the shore. People sit on the beach, and a woman in the foreground wades in the water. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A group of sunbathing adults and children standing and sitting near a blanket, folding chairs, and umbrella set up on a beach. In the background, swimmers ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of a resort shoreline lined with vacation houses. People walk along the beach, swim, and sit on the sand or on an elevated boardwalk near the water. |
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