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| Description: | A group of children and adults at a wading pool in a park. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Boys playing on makeshift diving board on the shore of Lake Monona at Brittingham Park. |
| Date: | 07 08 1988 |
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| Description: | Two women lifeguards sun themselves at the edge of Horeb Park pool during a rotation break. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Sunbathers relax on the piers at the swimming park on the Milwaukee River. |
| Date: | 06 26 1909 |
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| Description: | Two men paddle barrels with their hands and feet while a third tips over on Pewaukee Lake at the Waukesha Beach recreation area. Other people watch both f... |
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| Description: | A colorized image of a girls' swimming class at the Brittingham Park bathhouse. Caption reads: "Girls' Swimming Class, Brittingham Park, Madison, Wis." |
| Date: | 06 14 1944 |
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| Description: | Lois Cook, Noreen Killiher, and Geraldine Clark having a snack on the beach and waiting one hour before they swim. |
| Date: | 08 06 1944 |
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| Description: | Thirty-two winners of individual championships at the annual city municipal swimming meet at B.B. Clarke Beach. |
| Date: | 08 06 1944 |
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| Description: | Annual city municipal swimming meet at B.B. Clarke Beach, with swimmers in the water, and observers along the shore, with cars, and houses in the neighborh... |
| Date: | 07 03 1946 |
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| Description: | View from B.B. Clarke beach of swimmers on a raft in Lake Monona ready to start a swimming race with people in the foreground watching from the shore. Race... |
| Date: | 07 31 1921 |
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| Description: | Crowds of individuals along South Shore Beach in the Bay View neighborhood. Some individuals are swimming while others are sitting on the grass and sand. ... |
| Date: | 07 26 1914 |
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| Description: | A group, mostly youth, on the shores of Lake Michigan at South Shore beach in the Bay View neighborhood. Caption on glass plate reads, "On the Sands, South... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Swimming area with children and adults enjoying the weather, with the Tower Hotel is in the background. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | People swimming and diving in Monona Bay near the Brittingham Park bath house. The railroad causeway is in the background. |
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| Description: | Children and adults gather at Devil's Lake. Shown at the right is a large water slide. |
| Date: | 07 04 1949 |
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| Description: | A man taking a picture of two women at the Vilas Park beach. |
| Date: | 08 07 1949 |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of the 15 members of the Shorewood Beach swim team, winners of the team championship at the Madison City Swim held at B.B. Clark Bea... |
| Date: | 08 07 1949 |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of the 41 boys and girls who were winners of the individual events in the annual Madison swim meet held at B. B. Clark Beach. |
| Date: | 08 06 1950 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of children and youth in swimsuits, winners of various events of the Madison city swimming meet held at the B.B. Clarke beach on Lake Monona... |
| Date: | 08 16 1950 |
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| 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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