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| Date: | 06 06 1944 |
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| Description: | Onlookers on slope of B.B. Clarke Beach looking out to the lake to watch a swim meet. |
| 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: | 07 12 1955 |
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| Description: | Skin-divers Dick Charmley and Gary Davies with harpoon in Lake Mendota preparing to fish. Dick Charmley is the son of Mr. and Mrs. C.C. Charmley, 20 Paget ... |
| Date: | 07 12 1955 |
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| Description: | Bette Sonneland and her children, Kim (age 3) and Kristin (9 months), enjoying Lake Mendota in a rubber boat near the home of Bette's parents, Dr. and Mrs.... |
| Date: | 07 1943 |
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| Description: | Man, wearing military "work whites" from Madison Army Air Forces detachment, jumping into Lake Mendota as part of water training. |
| Date: | 06 14 1944 |
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| Description: | Private Fred Schneider and wife with crowd in the water at a beach. |
| Date: | 06 14 1944 |
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| Description: | Richard Straavaldsen floating in an inner tube in the water. |
| 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 02 1944 |
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| Description: | Helen Durr diving from the launch, with Ardith Cauble (Gauble?) observing her. |
| Date: | 08 06 1944 |
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| Description: | Thirty-two winners of individual championships at the annual city municipal swimming meet at B.B. Clarke Beach. |
| Date: | 08 06 1944 |
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| Description: | Annual city municipal swimming meet at B.B. Clarke Beach, with swimmers in the water, and observers along the shore, with cars, and houses in the neighborh... |
| Date: | 06 25 1945 |
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| Description: | Large group of boys standing in a line on a pier at YMCA Camp Wakanda on Lake Mendota. |
| Date: | 07 23 1945 |
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| Description: | Scenic view of Lake Katrina at Girl Scout Camp Brandenburg near Springfield Corners. Several girl scouts are below in the distance on a pier, and in the sh... |
| Date: | 08 03 1945 |
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| Description: | A Red Cross instructor with a children's swimming class at the Bluemounds swimming pool. The instructor is George Steiner, assistant principal at Madison W... |
| 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 03 1946 |
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| Description: | View from B.B. Clarke beach of swimmers on a raft in Lake Monona ready to start a swimming race with people in the foreground watching from the shore. Race... |
| Date: | 07 29 1947 |
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| Description: | Pictured at Tenney park are Sun Prairie children receiving swimming instruction from Mrs. Mildred Schwieten, standing in the water at the left, and Don Hei... |
| 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 15 1948 |
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| Description: | Camp Maria Olbrich, a YWCA camp on the north shore of Lake Mendota. Swimmers left to right: Beverly Ronge, Maxine Watson, Janet Hart, Kay Esch, and Elizabe... |
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