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Grand Rapids Municipal Swimming Pool

Date: 1920
Description: View across the water near the shoreline of the municipal swimming pool. The pool may have been along the Wisconsin River with slides and sandy beaches. A ...
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Playing on the Beach on the Wisconsin River

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Description: View from rock cliff looking down at four girls standing on a beach in a square, throwing a beach ball to each other. The older girls are standing in the w...
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Chapel Gorge Beach

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Description: Elevated view of the mouth of Chapel Gorge Beach showing a canoe at the shore.
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Bathing Beach, Walmar Lodge

Date: 1926
Description: Beach on the Wisconsin River. There is a group of bathers in the water, and a group of tourists on a nearby rock. A steamboat is passing by in the distance...
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Beach at Ravenswood, Hotel Kilbourn

Date: 1927
Description: The Ravenswood beach on the Wisconsin River. A man is piloting an excursion boat as it is pulling away from the shoreline. Two rowboats are pulled up on th...
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Bathing Beach Pine Glen Properties

Date: 1931
Description: View along shoreline of a bathing beach on the Wisconsin River at Pine Glen Properties. Bathers on sitting on the beach on the left. Four more people are s...
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Terry Andrae State Park Beach

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Description: White sand and breaking waves along the beach at Terry Andrae State Park.
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The Beach

Date: 09 1963
Description: Elevated view of a two people strolling on Algoma Beach.
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Terry Andrae State Park Beach

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Description: Beach at Terry Andrae State Park. There is a wooden boardwalk in the foreground.
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Wisconsin's Children

Date: 1950
Description: Children are playing in the water and in the sand at a beach.
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Sand Script

Date: 1955
Description: Young girl at the beach writing her name in the sand.
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Terry Andrae State Park Beach

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Description: The bathhouse and wooden boardwalks at the swimming beach, Terry Andrae State Park.
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A Day at the Beach

Date: 1935
Description: Slightly elevated view of a crowd of mostly young men and women enjoying a sunny day at South Shore Beach.
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Beach at Pine Glen Properties

Date: 1931
Description: View of a beach with a group of sunbathers posing around a large billboard that reads: "The only safe clean sandy beach in the Dells."
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Terry Andrae State Park Beach

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Description: View along shoreline showing the wide sandy swimming beach along Lake Michigan at Terry Andrae State Park. Two people are on the shoreline.
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Lonely Lighthouse

Date: 1952
Description: Rawley Point Lighthouse, located in the Point Beach State Forest. It is 111 feet tall.
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Greetings from "Roll-Inn" at the Dells

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Description: A collection of images from Nettland's Roll Inn and other sites around the Dells including: the Narrows, Stand Rock, Lone Rock, and the beach at Lake Delto...
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Summer Vacation Jobs for Youth

Date: 07 12 1949
Description: Bob Trotalli, a recent graduate of West High School, has a summer job as a life guard at the Willows Beach on Lake Mendota. He is shown talking to Betsy Mi...
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GIs at Warner Beach

Date: 08 02 1944
Description: GIs running into the water at Warner Beach.
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Child at Terry Andrae State Park

Date: 1938
Description: Small child standing on the shoreline of a sandy beach, looking out at the waves, at Terry Andrae State Park on Lake Michigan.

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