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| Date: | 05 10 1945 |
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| Description: | City of Madison Lifeguard Training class at the YMCA pool, 207 West Washington Avenue. Pictured are Alice Tiedeman ducking Bill Bailey under the water. |
| Date: | 05 10 1945 |
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| Description: | City of Madison Lifeguard Training class at the YMCA pool, 207 West Washington Avenue. Performing artificial respiration of Bill Bailey are left to right:... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin-Madison Memorial Union Terrace with Lake Mendota and sailboats in the background. |
| Date: | 06 25 1945 |
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| Description: | Large group of boys standing in a line on a pier at YMCA Camp Wakanda on Lake Mendota. |
| Date: | 08 02 1945 |
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| Description: | High School girls at a swim class held at the YMCA. |
| Date: | 07 23 1945 |
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| Description: | Scenic view of Lake Katrina at Girl Scout Camp Brandenburg near Springfield Corners. Several girl scouts are below in the distance on a pier, and in the sh... |
| Date: | 08 03 1945 |
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| Description: | A Red Cross instructor with a children's swimming class at the Bluemounds swimming pool. The instructor is George Steiner, assistant principal at Madison W... |
| Date: | 08 03 1945 |
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| Description: | Mt. Horeb children and adults splashing in the Bluemound pool during a Red Cross swimming class. |
| Date: | 07 03 1946 |
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| Description: | View from B.B. Clarke beach of swimmers on a raft in Lake Monona ready to start a swimming race with people in the foreground watching from the shore. Race... |
| Date: | 07 31 1921 |
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| Description: | Crowds of individuals along South Shore Beach in the Bay View neighborhood. Some individuals are swimming while others are sitting on the grass and sand. ... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Columnist Drew Pearson, who with Robert S. Anderson and later with Jack Anderson, pioneered modern political investigative reporting. Pearson was one of t... |
| Date: | 07 26 1914 |
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| Description: | A group, mostly youth, on the shores of Lake Michigan at South Shore beach in the Bay View neighborhood. Caption on glass plate reads, "On the Sands, South... |
| Date: | 12 1951 |
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| Description: | Philleo Nash (playing the guitar), Presidential adviser on Minority Affairs, entertains President Harry Truman (in the sunglasses), with folk songs during ... |
| Date: | 07 29 1947 |
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| Description: | Pictured at Tenney park are Sun Prairie children receiving swimming instruction from Mrs. Mildred Schwieten, standing in the water at the left, and Don Hei... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Two young boys swim in a mill pond beside a dilapidated building. |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Marine captain Joseph R. McCarthy, looking fit, somewhere in the South Pacific. Health was an increasing problem for McCarthy as senator. He was subject t... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Group of swimmers in bathing suits along the shores of Lake Delton at Squire's Evergreen Retreat. Onlookers observe the activities: children play in the wa... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Man uses a McCormick-Deering Fairway 12 tractor and mowing attachment to care for lawns (and golf course?) at a country club. Sun bathers are in the backgr... |
| Date: | 01 21 1948 |
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| Description: | William L. Doudna, Wisconsin State Journal staffer, interviews movie actress Esther Williams during her visit to Madison. In the background is the W... |
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| Description: | Children swimming in a lake as part of Highlander Folk School's Koinonia Children's Camp. |
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