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| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin-Madison students play on a canoe in Lake Mendota near the campus. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin-Madison students stand on a Lake Mendota pier watching others swim. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | People swimming and diving in Monona Bay near the Brittingham Park bath house. The railroad causeway is in the background. |
| Date: | 07 05 1933 |
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| Description: | View from beach of people swimming. Some are standing in the sand, and some are on the diving pier out in the water. On the left is part of a water slide. |
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| Description: | A large group of men, women, and children, wearing swimming attire, standing in a lake. Industrial buildings are in the distance along the shoreline. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a boy diving into the river from a large rock, while others are awaiting their turn to jump. Several boys are already swimming in the wate... |
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| Description: | A large group of boys are standing and sitting on the bulkhead of a powerhouse before a flood. The boys could dive under one side of the structure and swim... |
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| Description: | Three women and two men in swimming suits wade in the river, while two women sit in a rowboat on shore, possibly the Matt Olson farm campground. |
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| Description: | Ten young men in swimming suits pose in a line on a riverbank. |
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| Description: | A woman is standing in a rowboat in a diving position teaching four women in a lake how to dive. The rest of the women are in shirts printed with S.S.B.H. ... |
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| Description: | Woman and child standing in a lake in shallow water. Other people are standing in the water behind them. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of a small group of men, women, and children standing waist-deep in the water. |
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| Description: | People diving from a pier into the water. On the right, a third diver is standing on the wooden pier. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Chulew family (from left): Marcia, Natalie, and Manny at Schwartz's Resort. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Children swimming and jumping off pier into lake. An adult woman appears to be supervising the children. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Florence (Bis) Lloyd Jones sits in the water at the edge of a lake, probably Lake Monona, wearing inflatable water wings. |
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| Description: | Children and adults gather at Devil's Lake. Shown at the right is a large water slide. |
| Date: | 06 21 1949 |
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| Description: | Four Madison teenagers at the Willows swimming beach as they await the opening of city beaches. Seated on the ground is Nancy Fitzgibbon. Nancy Roark is pe... |
| Date: | 07 04 1949 |
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| Description: | A man taking a picture of two women at the Vilas Park beach. |
| Date: | 07 12 1949 |
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| Description: | Bob Trotalli, a recent graduate of West High School, has a summer job as a life guard at the Willows Beach on Lake Mendota. He is shown talking to Betsy Mi... |
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