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Madison Swimming Meet

Date: 07 29 1956
Description: Group portrait of the diving champions from the Madison Swimming Meet held at B.B. Clarke beach. Kneeling left to right: Cynthia Kohl, Richard Larson, Dan ...
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Slide

Date: 1920
Description: View from shoreline of a water slide at Mirror Lake State Park. A woman rides down the slide into the lake, and a few people stand on the platform behind h...
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Polar Bear Club

Date: 01 01 1997
Description: "This and the following pages show the 'Polar Bear Club' ready for a swim at Port Washington on New Year's Day. Lucky for them, temperatures were in the lo...
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Polar Bear Club

Date: 01 01 1997
Description: "Polar Bear Club of Port Washington."
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Polar Bear Club

Date: 01 01 1997
Description: "Polar Bear Club of Port Washington."
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Polar Bear Club

Date: 01 01 1997
Description: "Polar Bear Club of Port Washington."
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Polar Bear Club

Date: 01 01 1997
Description: "Polar Bear Club of Port Washington."
Manuscript

Tansy Camp Fire Girls Album: Camp 1930

Date: 1930
Description: Page from the Tansy Camp Fire Girls album kept by Neighborhood House, with groups of girls posing at the end of a pier, in front of tents, on the remains o...
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Swimmers on the Pier at Camp

Date: 1930
Description: Hand-colored image of two swimmers sitting on a pier with their legs in the water at a camp in West Point sponsored by Neighborhood House. Several other sw...
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Firemen's Picnic

Date: 06 29 1997
Description: "Water barrel fights in Theresa."
Photograph

Madison Swimming Meet

Date: 07 21 1957
Description: Twenty of the winners in the swimming events in the annual city meet are posing in swim suits at B.B. Clark beach on Spaight Street. In the front row are C...
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Scrapbook: Play School Outing

Date: 06 1938
Description: Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with images of a spring outing taken by the Bluebirds? and the Orioles children's groups. Children are pl...
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Boys Camping Scrapbook: Features

Date: 1942
Description: Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with highlights of the boys summer camp at Camp America Williams: "backwards" day, with a line of boys dr...
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Lakewoods Resort Diving Platform on Namakagon Lake

Date: 1931
Description: View across water of men and children swimming around and diving off of a diving platform at Lakewoods Resort on Namakagon Lake. In the distance is the far...
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Keystone Film Company Pool

Date: 1915
Description: Production still of the Keystone pool. On the far left is Mack Sennett, coatless, in derby and suspenders. On the far right is Adam Kessel, coatless, in a ...
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Wallace Reid and Wallace Reid, Jr.

Date: 1920
Description: Original caption: "Wally Reid and Billy ready for a swimming lesson in the pool at the beautiful Reid home."
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Wallace Reid, Dorothy Davenport, and their Son

Date: 1920
Description: Dorothy Davenport Reid, Wallace Reid, Jr., and the silent film star Wallace Reid in bathing suits at the edge of a swimming pool.
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Faire Binney and Georges Carpentier in Bathing Suits

Date: 1920
Description: In this flirtatious scene still from "The Wonderman," Henri D'Alour (played by Georges Carpentier, the French boxer, aviator, and actor) holds the hand of ...
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Faire Binney and Georges Carpentier with Four Others in Bathing Suits

Date: 1920
Description: In a publicity still from "The Wonderman," Henri D'Alour (played by Georges Carpentier, the French boxer, aviator, and actor) stands with his arm around Do...
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High School Girls at Lathrop Hall

Date: 05 17 1958
Description: Almost 200 girls from 20 Wisconsin high schools took part in a strenuous day of recreation planned by the Women's Physical Education Club at Lathrop Hall a...

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