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Beach Scene

Date: 08 30 1953
Description: View from the beach of people swimming, playing in the sand, and sunbathing.
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Swimming Safety

Date: 06 14 1944
Description: Private Edward Garbarszyle, with a football in his hands, is kneeling over Lorian Day demonstrating that games at the beach are sometimes not much fun for ...
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Swimming Safety

Date: 06 14 1944
Description: Richard Straavaldsen floating in an inner tube in the water.
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Swimming Safety

Date: 06 14 1944
Description: Billy Wiedenbeck pushing Wally Britton into the water from a swimming platform.
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Swimming Safety

Date: 06 14 1944
Description: Carol Ann Nelson and her sister, Patty, observing the sign stating the hours that lifeguards are on duty at the beach.
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Swimming Safety

Date: 06 1944
Description: George Miller is reporting a problem to Lifeguard Lois Gardner. She is standing on a platform near a chair, and is wearing a whistle on a chain around her ...
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Children Playing in Flooded Street

Date: 06 14 1944
Description: Children in swimming suits playing in a miniature lake created by heavy rains in the area of Fox and Prospect Avenues.
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Swimming Safety

Date: 06 14 1944
Description: Lifeguard Tom Langlois in a rowboat is issuing a warning to James Bergman who is swimming outside the ropes that delineate the safe swimming area.
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Girls at Camp Maria Olbrich

Date: 07 06 1944
Description: Five girls in a row boat on Lake Mendota at the YWCA's Camp Maria Olbrich. Seated left to right: Volala Still, Jane Botham, Doris Elliott, Gloria Trader, a...
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Girls on a Pier at Camp Maria Olbrich

Date: 07 06 1944
Description: Five girls sitting on a pier on Lake Mendota at YWCA's Camp Maria Olbrich. From left to right: Edith Gannon, Sally Smith, Mary Ellen Segerson, Turabelle O...
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GIs at Warner Beach

Date: 08 02 1944
Description: Four WAC lieutenants posing on the rail of the life launch. From left to right are Virginia Harmon, Jane Dunning, Ardeth Cauble, and Helen Durr.
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GIs at Warner Beach

Date: 08 02 1944
Description: Truax cadets serving as lifeguards while swimming at Warner Beach. Left to right, standing: Karl Peters, George Toothill, John Fink, Norman Finazzo, John O...
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Lake Katrina at Camp Brandenburg

Date: 07 23 1945
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...
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Girl Scouts at Camp Brandenburg

Date: 07 23 1945
Description: Girls scouts boating on Lake Katrina at Camp Brandenburg near Springfield Corners. Pictured pushing the rowboat is Mary Lou Steinike. In the rowboat from l...
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Vilas Park Beach

Date: 07 04 1949
Description: A man taking a picture of two women at the Vilas Park beach.
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Madison City Swim Meet

Date: 08 07 1949
Description: Helen Wear, representing Maple bluff, takes part in the diving competition at the annual Madison city swimming meet held at B.B. Clark beach. Helen was on...
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Shorewood Hills Swim Team

Date: 08 10 1949
Description: Group portrait of six members of the Shorewood Hills swim team, winners of the annual Madison city swimming meet. The girls, sitting on the rock, from left...
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YWCA Winter Activities

Date: 01 04 1950
Description: Instructor Patricia Patterson, 621 North Frances Street, teaches the correct technique for the side stroke to Alice Well, 2 Langdon Street, who is seated o...
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Girl Scouts at Camp Greenwood on Picnic Point

Date: 07 06 1950
Description: Girl Scouts at Camp Greenwood, a day camp at Picnic Point for Intermediate Girl Scouts between the ages of 10 and 14, gather the food they have helped cont...
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Madison's Vilas Park Beach

Date: 08 16 1950
Description: A lifeguard observes swimmers at the beach in Vilas Park. A rowboat used by the lifeguard is on the beach.

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