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| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Picnic on the shores of Basswood Island, Apostle Islands. Those picnicking include Harriet Webb, C.A. Hull, H.W. Rodgers, Mrs. J. Austin, Elizabeth Baker, ... |
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| Description: | A group of children and adults at a wading pool in a park. |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Boys line up on pier for swimming race at Camp Wakanda. |
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| Description: | Steamboat Rock, with two children playing at the edge of the river. |
| Date: | 08 01 1970 |
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| Description: | To escape the heat, teenage girls have a water fight in the backyard pool they built. |
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| Description: | View down sandy beach towards Miriam and Ruth Bennett wading in river near Romance Cliff at a sand bar above High Rock. |
| Date: | 08 05 1927 |
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| Description: | Elephants drinking water from a wagon pulled by a McCormick-Deering industrial tractor outside a circus tent belonging to the Sells-Floto Circus. Circus wo... |
| Date: | 05 20 1924 |
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| Description: | Country school children playing "Baby in the Hole." There is a hand-pump in the background under trees. |
| Date: | 08 1906 |
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| Description: | View across water towards Edgar and Jennie Krueger playing with cattails on the shoreline along Lime Kiln Pond. |
| Date: | 06 14 1944 |
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| Description: | Billy Wiedenbeck pushing Wally Britton into the water from a swimming platform. |
| Date: | 06 14 1944 |
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| Description: | Carol Ann Nelson and her sister, Patty, observing the sign stating the hours that lifeguards are on duty at the beach. |
| Date: | 08 03 1945 |
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| Description: | Mt. Horeb children and adults splashing in the Bluemound pool during a Red Cross swimming class. |
| Date: | 07 19 1947 |
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| Description: | Pierre Slightam, age 13, left, and his brother, Warren, age 11, 427 West Wilson Street, are putting the finishing touches on their Soap Box Derby racers. T... |
| Date: | 07 10 1948 |
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| Description: | Playing on the swings at Wingra Park are James Bruce swinging Anne Meyers, Mike Cantwell swinging Peggy Aspinwall, and James Clark swinging Rene Burkhalter... |
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| Description: | A large group of boys stand and sit on the bulkhead of a powerhouse before a flood. The boys could dive under one side of the structure and swim to the oth... |
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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: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Three boys playing in the water near the shoreline with their pants rolled above their knees. A fourth boy is squatting on the grassy shore, poking one of ... |
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| Description: | A group of four boys in a wooded area. Two boys are standing on a small bridge, and the other two are walking along a small creek. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Three Taylor brothers pose in a line wearing bathing suits. Behind them is a cottage and a lake. The shadow of the photographer can be seen on the lawn. |
| Date: | 08 28 1898 |
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| Description: | Syl playing with toy boats at a small pond at Reservoir Park. Other children and adults are around the pond which is on a hill. In the background below the... |
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