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| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Summertime view of people at tables on University of Wisconsin-Madison Memorial Union terrace, looking out to canoes and sailboats on the lake. In the back... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Boys line up on pier for swimming race at Camp Wakanda. |
| Date: | 06 18 1989 |
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| Description: | Overhead view of four children relaxing in a wading pool. |
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| Description: | Two women try to knock each other off of their canoes while standing and swinging brooms at each other. |
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| Description: | Children swimming in a lake as part of Highlander Folk School's Koinonia Children's Camp. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin-Madison students play on a canoe in Lake Mendota near the campus. |
| 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. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Chulew family (from left): Marcia, Natalie, and Manny at Schwartz's Resort. |
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| Description: | View of the beach in front of the Hotel Clarendon, featuring swimmers, benches, and shade-structures made with palm leaves. |
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| Description: | A group of children in the water learning to swim with kick-boards at Ocean Beach. |
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| Description: | A view of people in row boats, posing for the camera. A man stands at the diving platform and slide. To the right, in a cordoned-off section, are swimmers.... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A view of a swimming pool beside a hill at Bessie Tift College. Next to the pool is a vine-covered pergola and a slide. College buildings are visible in th... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Vacationers wade at a beach near a row of what appear to be hotel buildings. Groups of people sit near boats onshore and a group of women sits at the end o... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a beach and houses that line the shore. People sit on the beach, and a woman in the foreground wades in the water. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A group of sunbathing adults and children standing and sitting near a blanket, folding chairs, and umbrella set up on a beach. In the background, swimmers ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of a resort shoreline lined with vacation houses. People walk along the beach, swim, and sit on the sand or on an elevated boardwalk near the water. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Men, women, and children swim in the water between two docks. Children in the foreground play with a flotation device. |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | People sunbathe on the beach at Playland while others swim in the surf. A turreted building decorated with flags is in the background. Caption reads: "The... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View toward people relaxing on a beach under umbrellas and other people wading in the water. On the right a woman is walking down a boardwalk to get to the... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | An elevated lifeguard station stands on the sand at Wriests Beach while people sunbathe on the beach and wade in the water. The sign on the lifeguard stati... |
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