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Madison Swimming Meet

Date: 07 29 1956
Description: Group portrait of the diving champions from the Madison Swimming Meet held at B.B. Clarke beach. Kneeling left to right: Cynthia Kohl, Richard Larson, Dan ...
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Madison Swimming Meet

Date: 07 21 1957
Description: Twenty of the winners in the swimming events in the annual city meet are posing in swim suits at B.B. Clark beach on Spaight Street. In the front row are C...
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High School Girls at Lathrop Hall

Date: 05 17 1958
Description: Almost 200 girls from 20 Wisconsin high schools took part in a strenuous day of recreation planned by the Women's Physical Education Club at Lathrop Hall a...
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Country Club Women Leaders

Date: 06 17 1958
Description: Portrait of Elsa Johnson on the Maple Bluff Country Club porch overlooking the swimming pool. All activities of the Maple Bluff Country Club Women's Group ...
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City Swim Meet Cahmpions

Date: 07 23 1959
Description: Group portrait of winners of the swimming events in the city meet at B.B. Clarke beach.
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YMCA Swimmers Unbeaten

Date: 02 04 1961
Description: These four YMCA swimmers will be competing in the 160-yard freestyle relay hoping to earn a ninth victory. Left to right are: John Saunders, Cherokee Heigh...
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Wisconsin All-American Swimmer

Date: 01 28 1961
Description: University of Wisconsin all-American swimmer Ron McDevitt holds his certificate from the 1960 NCAA swimming meet. Next to him is the University of Wisconsi...
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Madison Swimming Meet

Date: 07 24 1960
Description: Group portrait of champions in the Madison city swimming meet finals, each one a winner of one or more events.
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Maple Bluff Aquacade

Date: 07 23 1960
Description: The Aquacade at the Maple Bluff Country Club pool includes races, family dinner and an evening show. Tom Bennett, right, gives instructions for the bar bel...
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Maple Bluff Aquacade

Date: 06 23 1960
Description: The Aquacade at the Maple Bluff Country Club pool includes races, family dinner and an evening show. Sue Stenjem participates in the beach ball race.
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Maple Bluff Aquacade

Date: 07 23 1960
Description: Spectators watch the Aquacade at the Maple Bluff Country Club pool, which includes races, family dinner and an evening show.
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Maple Bluff Aquacade

Date: 07 23 1960
Description: The Aquacade at the Maple Bluff Country Club pool includes races, family dinner and an evening show. Ready for the tube race are, left to right, Mark Herro...
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Beach Scene

Date: 06 16 1953
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...
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Swimmers in Lake Monona

Date: 1897
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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State Board of Control of Wisconsin Letterhead

Date: 
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...
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Dolphin Club Swim Show

Date: 03 21 1961
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...
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New West High School Swimming Pool

Date: 03 28 1961
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...
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Stanley Herrling Farm

Date: 06 06 1961
Description: Mark Herrling swimming in the spring-fed pool on the Stanley Herrling farm. This is one of a series of photographs of a rural Cross Plains farm which was p...
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Director Tom Knoche at the Hill Farm Swimming Pool

Date: 07 01 1961
Description: Director Tom Knoche forms a semi-silhouette as west side residents beat the heat in the outdoor Hill Farm Pool.
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Youths Learning to Swim

Date: 07 10 1961
Description: Underwater photograph of a youth learning to swim in a Sun Prairie pool.

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