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| Date: | 1930 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 03 12 1956 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Beach at the Squires' Evergreen Retreat. Two children stand at the top of the water slide while others play in the water. |
| Date: | 07 29 1956 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of winners in the Madison Swimming Meet city finals, held at B.B. Clarke beach. |
| Date: | 07 29 1956 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 07 29 1956 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | This pictorial tourist map from the Wisconsin Conservation Commission depicts vacation activities and identifies tourist destinations throughout the state.... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 01 01 1997 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Hand-colored image of two swimmers sitting on a pier with their legs in the water at a camp in West Point sponsored by Neighborhood House. Several other sw... |
| Date: | 07 21 1957 |
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| Description: | Twenty of the winners in the swimming events in the annual city meet are posing in swim suits at B.B. Clark beach on Spaight Street. In the front row are C... |
| Date: | 07 1942 |
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| Description: | Image from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House of a boys summer camp, with an image of Skip Sul?(obscured letters) participating in a game involving tak... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | View across water of men and children swimming around and diving off of a diving platform at Lakewoods Resort on Namakagon Lake. In the distance is the far... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | In this flirtatious scene still from "The Wonderman," Henri D'Alour (played by Georges Carpentier, the French boxer, aviator, and actor) holds the hand of ... |
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