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| 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: | 08 12 1984 |
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| Description: | A bikini-clad woman snaps a self-portrait with a long cable release attached to a camera as she is tossed into the air by a group of men on the beach. Othe... |
| Date: | 06 21 1957 |
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| Description: | View along shoreline of crowded Bradford beach. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Woman with children grilling hot dogs and wieners at the beach. |
| Date: | 02 08 1935 |
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| Description: | Women preparing for a picnic at the beach with their International C-1 wood-paneled ("woody") station wagon. |
| Date: | 07 20 1988 |
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| Description: | Two men walking along the edge of Lake Michigan. |
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| Description: | Aloah Beach on Lake Winnebago. There is a board sidewalk on the left. A sailboat is out on the lake on the right near the shoreline. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | View across water towards Bay View Beach, with several boats in the foreground, and buildings behind them. Caption reads: "Bay View Beach, Green Bay, Wis." |
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| Description: | Men, women and children soaking up the sun on the beach of a lake (probably Lake Michigan). The children are digging in the sand in the foreground, and the... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Two men sit on a pier with a beach and several homes in the background. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Picnic on beach of one of the Apostle Islands, Lake Superior. Image includes Mrs. Chute, Mrs. Webb., Mrs. Hull, H.W. Rogers and Mr. Chute. |
| 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... |
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| Description: | Color postcard of a bathing place on the water. A hill is behind the building, and there are a signs for a swimming school and the Wm. Bechstein Co. Severa... |
| Date: | 06 26 1948 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of Louanne Roberts, at left, and Marilyn Jones, at right, pictured at the Willows Beach which officially opened for the summer. Both girls p... |
| Date: | 07 05 1933 |
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| Description: | View from beach of people swimming. Some are standing in the sand, and some are on the diving pier out in the water. On the left is part of a water slide. |
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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: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Crescent Beach, with campsite with cabins and miniature golf course and other outbuildings. Downtown buildings can be seen in the backgrou... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | A beach on Lake Michigan near the Milwaukee Yacht Club. Men, women, and children relax on the beach. In the background many boats are on the water. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Three women and a child are wading at the Lake Park shoreline. The women are identified as Hattie Taylor and friends, and the child as Tannisse Taylor. |
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| Description: | Valentine's Day postcard of woman sitting on the beach with Cupid standing behind her holding a quiver of arrows. She is wearing a bathing costume and cap.... |
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