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| Description: | Three girls wade in a lake near Alma while another watches from a pier. A boy fishes from from a boat nearby. |
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| Description: | Groups of boys on the Mississippi River shore undressing for a swim. Alma is visible across the river. |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Swimming in the lake with the Cliff House in background. Cliff House was a resort hotel built shortly after 1872, when Devil's Lake was reached by rail. Bo... |
| Date: | 06 26 1909 |
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| Description: | Two men paddle barrels with their hands and feet while a third tips over on Pewaukee Lake at the Waukesha Beach recreation area. Other people watch both f... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Exterior front view from Lake Mendota of the Delta Upsilon Fraternity House, located at 640 North Francis Street, erected in 1906. A group of people are o... |
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| Description: | A colorized image of a girls' swimming class at the Brittingham Park bathhouse. Caption reads: "Girls' Swimming Class, Brittingham Park, Madison, Wis." |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View towards swimming pool towards people relaxing and sitting around the pool near the lake at the Baptist Assembly Grounds. Caption reads: "The Pool Nort... |
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| Description: | Men, women and children soaking up the sun on the beach of a lake (probably Lake Michigan). The children are digging in the sand in the foreground, and the... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View across water towards the bath house. Caption reads: "Bath House, Brittingham Park, Madison, Wis." |
| Date: | 06 06 1944 |
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| Description: | Onlookers on slope of B.B. Clarke Beach looking out to the lake to watch a swim meet. |
| Date: | 07 12 1955 |
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| Description: | Tia Nelson, 11, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Russell Nelson, 3010 Oxford Road, dives into Lake Mendota. She was one of Madison's most outstanding young swimmer... |
| Date: | 07 12 1955 |
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| Description: | Skin-divers Dick Charmley and Gary Davies with harpoon in Lake Mendota preparing to fish. Dick Charmley is the son of Mr. and Mrs. C.C. Charmley, 20 Paget ... |
| Date: | 07 12 1955 |
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| Description: | Bette Sonneland and her children, Kim (age 3) and Kristin (9 months), enjoying Lake Mendota in a rubber boat near the home of Bette's parents, Dr. and Mrs.... |
| Date: | 07 1943 |
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| Description: | Man, wearing military "work whites" from Madison Army Air Forces detachment, jumping into Lake Mendota as part of water training. |
| Date: | 06 14 1944 |
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| Description: | Private Fred Schneider and wife with crowd in the water at a beach. |
| Date: | 06 14 1944 |
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| Description: | Richard Straavaldsen floating in an inner tube in the water. |
| Date: | 06 14 1944 |
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| Description: | Billy Wiedenbeck pushing Wally Britton into the water from a swimming platform. |
| Date: | 06 14 1944 |
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| Description: | Carol Ann Nelson and her sister, Patty, observing the sign stating the hours that lifeguards are on duty at the beach. |
| Date: | 08 02 1944 |
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| Description: | Helen Durr diving from the launch, with Ardith Cauble (Gauble?) observing her. |
| Date: | 08 06 1944 |
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| Description: | Thirty-two winners of individual championships at the annual city municipal swimming meet at B.B. Clarke Beach. |
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