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Cooper Cottage on Cable Lake

Date: 1931
Description: View across water of people standing on the shoreline and a dock. Two people are in a boat on the lake. Cooper Cottage is visible on land and another dock ...
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Swimmers and Boat in Siskiwit Lake

Date: 1935
Description: View of six boys and men swimming in Siskiwit Lake by a wooden boat. In the background is the shoreline and trees.
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Zimmel Implement

Date: 1966
Description: "This view is from St. Theresa Catholic Church. Looking north toward Zimmel Implement."
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Woman About to Dive

Date: 1920
Description: A woman dressed in a bathing suit, shoes and cap is about to dive off of a pier into the water. A rowboat is tethered on the right. Trees can be seen on th...
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Ten Swimmers

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Description: Seven young swimmers and a man crouch down in the water while three women wearing bathing suits and caps stand behind them. In the background is a shorelin...
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University of Wisconsin Athletic Families

Date: 12 01 1954
Description: Group portrait of University of Wisconsin swimming team member and army veteran John H. Middel, with his wife, Harriett, and their children, 3-year old Suz...
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Children on Swimming Slide

Date: 1930
Description: View of nine children wearing bathing suits waving at the camera man as they go down the swimming slide. Five more children wearing bathing suits are going...
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Float at Island View Resort on Lake Owen

Date: 1930
Description: View across water of seven people wearing bathing suits on the float or wooden raft in Lake Owen at the Island View Resort. There is a large umbrella on th...
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Octagonal Wooden Ring on Lake Owen Shoreline

Date: 1936
Description: View of a wooden octagonal ring on the shore of Lake Owen. In the foreground are trees and grass. On the right are people on the shore of Lake Owen, and a ...
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Swimming Platform

Date: 1933
Description: View of men, women, and children wearing swimsuits playing on and swimming near a wooden swimming and diving platform in a lake. In the distance is the far...
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University of Wisconsin Red Cross Fundraising Drive

Date: 03 12 1956
Description: Anne Ross, instructor of a water safety course for the Red Cross, kneeling at the side of a pool. In the water with a boat are (left) Susan Benn of Ft. Lau...
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Bathing Beach at Squires' Evergreen Retreat

Date: 1930
Description: Beach at the Squires' Evergreen Retreat. Two children stand at the top of the water slide while others play in the water.
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Baker Paper Co. Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Baker Paper Company of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, paper manufacturers and distributors of Fun Ful playground and swimming pool equipment, with a...
Document

King's Gateway Hotel Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the King's Gateway Hotel in Land O' Lakes, Wisconsin, with header and footer views of the hotel and nearby Gateway Inn in color, and overlapp...
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Madison Swimming Meet

Date: 07 29 1956
Description: Group portrait of winners in the Madison Swimming Meet city finals, held at B.B. Clarke beach.
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Madison Swimming Meet

Date: 07 29 1956
Description: Keith Anderson (left) and Tom Foseid (right) are Madison Swimming Meet first place winners among boys ages 9 and under. Both placed second twice in other e...
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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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Slide

Date: 1920
Description: View from shoreline of a water slide at Mirror Lake State Park. A woman rides down the slide into the lake, and a few people stand on the platform behind h...
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Skinny Dipping in the River

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Description: Slightly elevated view looking down at two men undressing to go skinny dipping in the river. A man wearing a suit is standing smiling between them, and two...
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Polar Bear Club

Date: 01 01 1997
Description: "This and the following pages show the 'Polar Bear Club' ready for a swim at Port Washington on New Year's Day. Lucky for them, temperatures were in the lo...

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