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| Date: | 09 07 1927 |
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| Description: | Women employees of Thordarson? in bathing suits on the beach during the First Girls Party to Rock Island. |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Playland picnic grove and beach, both crowded with people. A large ship, pavilions and outbuildings are in the background. Caption rea... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | People sunbathe on the beach at Playland while others swim in the surf. A turreted building decorated with flags is in the background. Caption reads: "The... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the beach and boardwalk at Playland, crowded with people walking on the boardwalk, sunbathing on the beach and wading in the water. The be... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A rowboat rests on the sand at a beach while sunbathers gather around umbrellas set up nearby. A boardwalk and several buildings are in in the background. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of men, women and children standing in long rows along the beach, with fingers touching their shoulders, caught in the middle of an exercise ... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Elevated view across water towards couples, adults, and children sunbathing on the beach and wading in the water. In the distance is an establishment with ... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View toward bathing beach and seashore, with people sunbathing near umbrellas and wading in the water. Summer homes are in the background on the cliffs alo... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View along rocky shoreline towards adults and children on the seashore, nde wading in the water. In the distance are cottages and other buildings, possibly... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Dipsy Baths outbuilding and surrounding beach. Umbrellas are set up in the sand where people sunbathe or wade in the water, and an Ame... |
| Date: | 07 07 1928 |
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| Description: | Colorized postcard of the bathing beach near the tourist camping site in Devil's Lake State Park. A diving tower is on the right with a woman diving from t... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Caption below the illustration reads, "ON A CHICAGO BEACH in 1922 policewomen, patrolling the sands on behalf of morality, confront three offenders." Two p... |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 06 26 1927 |
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| Description: | A group of three swimmers, two men and one woman, posing on the beach at Lake Calhoun. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of Alvin Kraenzlein with two other men and three women. They are all wearing bathing suits and posing on a beach. The women are wearing bath... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Several people in bathing suits and casual wear are relaxing on a beach and in the water at a Geneva Lake beach. Several people are also sitting behind a r... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "North Beach at County Park on Shawano Lake, Shawano, Wis." A giant water slide and hut can be seen in Shawano Lake at the beach. Swim... |
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