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| Date: | 07 12 1955 |
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| Description: | Tia Nelson, 11, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Russell Nelson, 3010 Oxford Road, dives into Lake Mendota. She was one of Madison's most outstanding young swimmer... |
| Date: | 08 07 1949 |
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| Description: | Helen Wear, representing Maple bluff, takes part in the diving competition at the annual Madison city swimming meet held at B.B. Clark beach. Helen was on... |
| Date: | 07 07 1928 |
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| Description: | Colorized postcard of the bathing beach near the tourist camping site in Devil's Lake State Park. A diving tower is on the right with a woman diving from t... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Colorized postcard of the pier landing as seen from the tourist camp site in Devil's Lake State Park. People are strolling on the dock, a boat is docked, w... |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard from hill of White Sand Lake seen through trees. A raft with a diving platform is near the shoreline. Caption reads: "White Sand Lake... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | View down long wooden dock. There is a diving board on the dock as well as ladders for people swimming. On shore are three parked automobiles and a few cab... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | View looking at people on the dock and diving tower on Lake Gogebic. Two boats are tied to the dock and buildings and trees are visible on the other side ... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A woman dressed in a bathing suit, shoes and cap is about to dive off of a pier into the water. A rowboat is tethered on the right. Trees can be seen on th... |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | View of men, women, and children wearing swimsuits playing on and swimming near a wooden swimming and diving platform in a lake. In the distance is the far... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Beach at the Squires' Evergreen Retreat. Two children stand at the top of the water slide while others play in the water. |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| 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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| Description: | View from Camp Pioneer looking east along the north shore of bay (Lake Raymond, now known as Seventeen Lake). There are piers on the shoreline, and a raft ... |
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| Description: | View across water of girl in mid-dive off of diving board. Original caption notes: "Swimming in the clear, cool, PURE waters of our Lake Raymond is a thril... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Halftone print of two divers in mid-air as other young men watch from the pier at the Y.M.C.A. camp on Geneva Lake. A sailboat is moored to the pier, which... |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of a high diver standing on a platform at the end of a pier on Delavan Lake. People are standing on the pier watching the diver, and a ... |
| 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: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Elevated view through trees towards a man preparing to dive or jump off a wooden diving board, mounted on a barge, into Archibald Lake. Waiting his turn, a... |
| Date: | 08 1905 |
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| Description: | Alfred Holt is in the middle of doing a somersault from the boat into Archibald Lake. Standing in the water and watching Alfred are, from left to right: Ca... |
| 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: | 1916 |
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| Description: | This action shot captures a group on a raft diving into Archibald Lake, with the Island in the background. The divers are probably members of the Holt, Str... |
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