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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: 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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091 - Four Scenes from Joy Camps Waterfront

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Description: Page from Joy Camps photo album displaying four photographs. At the top left is a birch bark canoe on a covered stand with paddles on racks. At upper right...
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093 - Joy Camps Water Activities

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Description: Page from Joy Camps photo album displaying five photographs. On the left is a Snipe setting sail with a camper and Miss Camp aboard. The top middle photogr...
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142 - Swimming Class at Joy Camps

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Description: Water scene, with many campers in swimsuits lined up on a dock, some standing, some sitting. A number of campers are also in the water, wearing swim caps. ...
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144 - Joy Camps Campers in Different Scene

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Description: Page from Joy Camps photo album displaying two photographs. In one, two young campers wearing swimming caps, bathing suits, and towels stand in a grassy ar...
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148 - Young Camper Floating in Water

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Description: A young camper in swimsuit and swimming cap holds onto a floating device shaped like a fish, while floating in the water.
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151 - Young Swimmer Sitting on Dock

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Description: Close-up of a young camper sitting on a dock wearing a swimming suit, and holding a floating device shaped like a fish or seahorse. She has her hair in two...
Historical Object

Various Scenes Joy Camps

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Description: Page from Sue Ann Hackett Scrapbook displaying several photographs of Sue Ann Hackett's camp friends in the summer of 1949. Includes a girl wearing a swimm...
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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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Group of People Wading in Shallow River

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Description: View towards a group of men, women, and children wading in shallow water. The far shoreline has a steep bank, with a fence and trees.
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Swimmers at Black River

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Description: Copy photograph of an elevated view of a nude man standing on a rock bluff along a river, two men standing in the water below, and another man in mid-air j...
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Bathers in the River

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Description: Group portrait of three women, two men, and a boy sitting in the shallow water near a shoreline.
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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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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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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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