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| Description: | A group of children and adults swimming and playing in the water of the Wolf River next to their blue houseboat docked at the shoreline. |
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| Description: | View across water towards two children jumping off the back of a motor boat into the water. The mother and father are watching from the motor boat. Behind ... |
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| Description: | View looking downhill between two boys in the foreground sitting on logs on the left and right. Another person is walking up the hill path. Below is a grou... |
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| Description: | A mother is kneeling on the edge of Timms Lake, photographing her son who is floating in an inner tube. Other children are playing in the water in the back... |
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| Description: | Four young men and women are standing in or around a motorboat beached on the sandy shoreline, with people swimming in the lake in the background. One woma... |
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| Description: | A woman in a bathing suit is standing on the edge of a swimming pool and taking a photograph of two children swimming. |
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| Description: | The non-mailing side of a wrap-around postcard cover. Glued inside is a folded series of two sided scenes of attractions in Central Wisconsin. Across the i... |
| Date: | 01 20 1916 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of a building with windowed walls. In the foreground is a lawn swing. Caption reads: "At The Seven Pines, Lewis, Wis." Text on back reads: "T... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | An unidentified young woman wearing a white dress is standing on the prow of a skiff watching fifteen children playing in shallow water. A second woman is ... |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of a lake towards several children climbing or standing on a wooden pier. On the side of the pier is a wooden slide that angles into th... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Color illustration of boys swimming and sailing in Lake Geneva. Caption reads: "Boating and Bathing at Young Men's Christian Association Camp, Lake Geneva,... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View down pier towards a boathouse on the shore, with groups of people sitting and standing on the platform in front. A group of people are in a rowboat ne... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | A view, looking south, at the intersection of West Mt. Vernon Avenue and North 65th Street. In the foreground is a shallow pool where children are playing,... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Men, women and children in modest swimming suits enjoy splashing and playing in the water at Sandy Beach, a resort established by Gerhard Strauss in 1921. ... |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view of people swimming and standing in the lake. People are out in boats in the background. Caption reads: "Thoma's Bathing Beach, L... |
| Date: | 07 21 1954 |
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| Description: | Youth having a water fight in Lake Mendota at a YMCA camp. |
| Date: | 06 26 1955 |
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| Description: | Swimming instructor Ann Sundt checking on swimmers in the shallow water at the Vilas Park Beach. |
| Date: | 06 26 1955 |
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| Description: | Three girls running into the water of Lake Wingra at the Vilas Park Beach. |
| Date: | 06 26 1955 |
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| Description: | Boys playing in the water of Lake Wingra at the Vilas Park Beach. |
| Date: | 07 1955 |
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| Description: | Children lining up on a sidewalk to enter the stone bathhouse that leads to the swimming pool. |
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