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| Date: | 05 26 1931 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin-Madison crew team holding their long oars, with coxswain on a pier on Lake Mendota. |
| Date: | 04 24 1931 |
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| Description: | Boathouses on Lake Monona looking southeast from E. Wilson Street across CNW railroad tracks. View of Wirka Boat Line, E. Wilson Street at S. Hancock Stree... |
| Date: | 07 29 1935 |
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| Description: | Standing on the Alpha Chi Omega sorority pier, Willard Grasser and Robert Estes show what is and is not permitted with regard to men's bathing suits. "The ... |
| Date: | 08 24 1945 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Wisconsin State Capitol from the roof of the Loraine Hotel. |
| Date: | 06 16 1928 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Wisconsin State Capitol from the roof of the Loraine Hotel. In the background is Lake Mendota on the left, and on the right is Lake Mo... |
| Date: | 01 08 1946 |
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| Description: | East Wilson Street scene at the center of South Hancock Street looking South down South Hancock Street across East Wilson Street, taken at site of Reynolds... |
| Date: | 01 08 1946 |
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| Description: | South Hancock Street scene looking South down unpaved South Hancock Street at the corner of East Wilson Street, taken at site of Reynolds Bus accident. Bus... |
| Date: | 11 12 1936 |
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| Description: | Chicago & Northwestern Railroad tracks, looking west at the crossing of S. Blair Street, King Street, E. Wilson Street, and Williamson Street. Shows Chicag... |
| Date: | 07 29 1935 |
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| Description: | Group of men and women modeling bathing suits that have been approved by the police chief on the Alpha Chi Omega pier on Lake Mendota. |
| Date: | 07 20 1934 |
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| Description: | Canoers paddle by to observe Don Krueger standing in the bow of the burned-out "Baby Gar Wood" speedboat after six University of Wisconsin women students w... |
| Date: | 07 13 1933 |
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| Description: | Five boys experimenting with diving apparatus on a diving raft. Left to right: Lyell Tullis, Edgar Tullis, and Jerry Randall fixing the diving head gear, w... |
| Date: | 07 13 1933 |
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| Description: | Edgar Tullis, in the water wearing a diving helmet, is assisted by Jerry Randall and Lyell Tullis, standing on a pier. |
| Date: | 05 22 1933 |
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| Description: | Janette Serrec, University of Wisconsin graduate, lecturer and writer on the "Fine Art of Successful Living," standing beside a Pontiac automobile she drov... |
| Date: | 06 10 1932 |
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| Description: | Fanchon & Marco girls on pier. (Twelve bathing beauties in bathing suits on Willows pier.) |
| Date: | 12 14 1931 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of Madison industrial district taken from the top of the Madison Gas and Electric Co. gas tank looking south west down the 600 and 700 blocks o... |
| Date: | 08 12 1931 |
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| Description: | Fauerbach Brewery on the right, looking south on South Blount from Williamson Street toward Lake Monona. |
| Date: | 08 05 1931 |
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| Description: | Acacia Fraternity group portrait, in street clothes, on the pier behind the fraternity house at 108 Langdon Street. |
| Date: | 06 29 1931 |
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| Description: | Chanticleer Orchestra, the "Piffles" Jaeger Band with instruments, on lake passenger boat. Band members and guests are: Left to right: Ruth Bourrette, Mrs.... |
| Date: | 06 27 1931 |
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| Description: | Path, "main street," through the woods at the University of Wisconsin Tent Colony. Also known as Camp Gallistella on the south shore of Lake Mendota, west ... |
| Date: | 06 18 1931 |
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| Description: | Bathers at the Willows Beach, standing on the pier. |
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