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At the Beach
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View from shoreline towards two men and two women in bathing suits standing and holding hands while standing in shallow water as a small wave breaks around them. On the reverse of the photograph is written: "Bathers at a Wisconsin beach on Lake Michigan."
1940
Wisconsin. Conservation Department
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W013OB1
WHi 135160
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On the Beach
1938
A child wearing a bathing suit is standing with their feet in shallow water as waves approach the shore. On the reverse of the print is written: "A tiny tot surveys the expanse of Lake Michigan fro...
Family Playing in Long Lake
1967
A family is playing in the water at a beach. The mother is sitting in the shallow water at the shoreline, holding her baby. Another child is standing next to her. The father is leaning down over a ...
Family Playing on a Beach at Long Lake
1967
A woman and a baby are sitting in the shallow water on a sandy shoreline. A man and child are playing with a beach ball nearby further out in the water. The opposite shoreline is in the background.
Returning to Shore
circa 1970-1979
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 woman is handing a man a slalom water ski.
Bathers in the River
Group portrait of three women, two men, and a boy sitting in the shallow water near a shoreline.
Family Playing on a Beach on Long Lake
1967
A woman is sitting with a baby and holding a beach ball while sitting in the shallow water on a sandy shoreline. Nearby a man and child are holding hands and walking in the water. There is a sign p...
