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Bathers at the Willows Beach
June 18, 1931
Bathers at the Willows Beach, standing on the pier.
Picnic Point
May 5, 1931
View across Lake Mendota towards Picnic Point, framed by a willow tree, and a rowboat pulled up on the shoreline.
Bathing Beauties
June 10, 1932
Fanchon & Marco girls on pier. (Twelve bathing beauties in bathing suits on Willows pier.)
University of Wisconsin-Madison Crew Team
May 26, 1931
University of Wisconsin-Madison crew team holding their long oars, with coxswain on a pier on Lake Mendota.
University Student Bathers
July 29, 1935
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.
Two Girls at Willows Beach
June 26, 1948
Group portrait of Louanne Roberts, at left, and Marilyn Jones, at right, pictured at the Willows Beach which officially opened for the summer. Both girls placed in the 1947 city swimming meet.
