Before the Menasha swimming pool, there was this...This 1897 photo shows the swimming area near the present day Memorial Building. In the background, you can see a swimming tank sheltered against the elements and the public's gaze, for modesty sake. It'd be 60 years before the pool was built. (photo courtesy of Steamboats on the Fox River by D.C. Mitchell, 1986)
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