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Youths Learning to Swim

Date: 07 10 1961
Description: Underwater photograph of several youth learning to swim in a Sun Prairie 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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Teenage Pool Party at Maple Bluff Country Club

Date: 07 11 1962
Description: Attending the pool party for teenage members of the Maple Bluff Country Club and their friends are Lyn Harris, Billie Hinz, Rita Hanson and Jan von Eschen.
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Teenage Pool Party at Maple Bluff Country Club

Date: 07 11 1962
Description: Attending the pool party for teenage members of the Maple Bluff Country Club and their friends are, center, Shirley Knudtson, Jeff Mucks, Eric Schubring an...
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Teenage Pool Party at Maple Bluff Country Club

Date: 07 11 1962
Description: Reid Bennett (left) and Ray Evans, and Fern Langmeyer attending the pool party for teenager members of the Maple Bluff Country Club and their friends.
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Private Dormitories on University of Wisconsin Campus

Date: 09 10 1964
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...
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C.B. Chapman on the Dock Before His Swim

Date: 08 12 1925
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...
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University of Wisconsin-Nebraska Swimming Meet

Date: 12 11 1965
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...
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C.B. Chapman Swimming Across Lake Mendota

Date: 08 1925
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...
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Bernie's Beach on Monona Bay

Date: 06 16 2015
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 ...
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At the Lake

Date: 1930
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...
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YMCA Camp Water Fight

Date: 07 21 1954
Description: Youth having a water fight in Lake Mendota at a YMCA camp.
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Swimmers at Vilas Park Beach

Date: 06 26 1955
Description: Swimming instructor Ann Sundt checking on swimmers in the shallow water at the Vilas Park Beach.
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Swimmers at Vilas Park Beach

Date: 06 26 1955
Description: Three girls running into the water of Lake Wingra at the Vilas Park Beach.
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Swimmers at Vilas Park Beach

Date: 06 26 1955
Description: Boys playing in the water of Lake Wingra at the Vilas Park Beach.
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Wisconsin State Journal Carriers' Picnic

Date: 08 1955
Description: Nineteen Wisconsin State Journal carrier boys at the Blue Mounds State Park swimming pool. Some are shown diving off a platform named for the previo...
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We Saw You . . . at Water Follies

Date: 08 1955
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 ...
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Air Has Too Much Nip for a Dip

Date: 06 27 1957
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.
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Lifeguard Helps Open Madison Beaches for Summer

Date: 06 15 1957
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 ...
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Music Rings Out From Campus

Date: 07 13 1957
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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