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| Date: | 06 16 1953 |
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| Description: | View of a crowd of people, mostly in swimsuits, at what might be Vilas Beach on Lake Wingra. There is a concession stand in a building in the background. A... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Original title reads, "Bathers assemble [swimmers in Lake Monona]." Women and men, wearing suits, hats, and long dresses, are standing near the lake shorel... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the State Board of Control, with vignettes, printed in blue ink, of various recreational scenes: fishing, playing golf, game bird hunting, an... |
| Date: | 03 21 1961 |
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| Description: | A quartet of University of Wisconsin mermaids are splashing through its aquatic paces in a final dress rehearsal for the annual Dolphin Club Swim Show in t... |
| Date: | 03 28 1961 |
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| Description: | The new swimming pool at Madison West High School was recently filled with 125,000 gallons of water. In addition to use by the junior and senior high physi... |
| Date: | 07 01 1961 |
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| Description: | Director Tom Knoche forms a semi-silhouette as west side residents beat the heat in the outdoor Hill Farm Pool. |
| Date: | 09 10 1964 |
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| Description: | One of a series of photographs showing the luxurious features of private dormitories on campus, two residents of Lowell Hall, 610 Langdon Street, are shown... |
| Date: | 08 12 1925 |
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| Description: | C.B. (Chandler Burnell) Chapman, a good friend of Stanley Hanks from their college days, posing while sitting on a bench on the dock before his swim across... |
| Date: | 12 11 1965 |
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| Description: | Action shot during the University of Wisconsin, Nebraska swim meet. U.W. students, Robert Blanchard in the foreground and Gil LaCroix, next to him, are sho... |
| Date: | 08 1925 |
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| Description: | View across water towards C.B. Chapman swimming across the lake to Picnic Point. Behind him is a group of people in a boat, the "Cardinal," watching C.B. s... |
| Date: | 06 16 2015 |
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| Description: | Children and adults at a small, sandy beach on the bay. Two woman are watching over the children as they play in the water or on the beach. The skyline of ... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Two men and five women posing in knee-high water. Leonore Judkins Middleton is crouching in front of her husband, Forest Middleton. The woman to the left o... |
| Date: | 07 21 1954 |
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| Description: | Youth having a water fight in Lake Mendota at a YMCA camp. |
| Date: | 06 26 1955 |
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| Description: | Swimming instructor Ann Sundt checking on swimmers in the shallow water at the Vilas Park Beach. |
| Date: | 06 26 1955 |
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| Description: | Three girls running into the water of Lake Wingra at the Vilas Park Beach. |
| Date: | 06 26 1955 |
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| Description: | Boys playing in the water of Lake Wingra at the Vilas Park Beach. |
| Date: | 08 1955 |
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| Description: | Water comedian, Eddie Rose, of the Sam Snyder's Water Follies performing his routine jumping off a high-level diving board during a show at Breese Stevens ... |
| Date: | 06 27 1957 |
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| Description: | Lifeguard Sherwin Straus sits watching one fully-clothed person standing near the water on the lake shore beach on a day too cold to swim. |
| Date: | 06 15 1957 |
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| Description: | Lifeguard Nancy Thomsen (5524 Lake Mendota Drive) warns a youngster not to go into deep water at the Tenney Park beach on the official opening day for the ... |
| Date: | 07 13 1957 |
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| Description: | Summer music camp participants shown coming from a swim on the University of Wisconsin campus. The teenagers are (left to right): Kay Halverson (of Menasha... |
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