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Birthday Boy

Date: 1957
Description: A boy blowing out 9 candles on a birthday cake.
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Camp Tent

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Description: Man, woman and two children putting up a tent by some trees.
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Family at Home

Date: 1955
Description: A mother posing with her seven children in the living room of their home.
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Gorillas Samson and Sambo Adoptive Birthday Party

Date: 10 05 1955
Description: Children and adults gathered in front of the gorilla cages at the Washington Park Zoo to celebrate the fifth adoptive birthday party for Samson and Sambo. ...
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Children at Milwaukee County Zoo

Date: 10 15 1955
Description: Children leaning against a fence at the fifth adoptive birthday party for Samson and Sambo at the Washington Park Zoo. Several of the children are drinking...
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Warren Spahn and Friend

Date: 07 27 1962
Description: Milwaukee Braves pitcher Warren Spahn and Eddie Mathews, Jr. in the locker room.
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Alice in Dairyland

Date: 1951
Description: Marjean Czerwinski of Milwaukee, the 1951 Alice in Dairyland, poses eating an ice cream cone with a young boy and girl.
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Open-Air Vegetable Market

Date: 1948
Description: Two girls selecting vegetables at an open air market.
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Jackie Robinson with Children

Date: 06 03 1954
Description: Jackie Robinson crouching on the ground and pointing to a diagram of a baseball diamond sketched on the pavement as a large group of primarily African-Amer...
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Polio Vaccine

Date: 1955
Description: Child posing with polio vaccine bottles and boxes.
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Child Receiving Vaccine

Date: 1955
Description: Child receiving a shot, most likely the polio vaccine.
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Child Receiving Vaccine

Date: 1955
Description: Children in line for vaccine shot. The child in the foreground is being prepared for the injection, most likely the polio vaccine.
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Hopalong Cassidy

Date: 08 26 1949
Description: William Boyd as Hopalong Cassidy posing while sitting on a rail fence before meeting fans at Schuster's Department Store (N .12th and W. Vliet Streets) in ...
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Children Examining a Pocket

Date: 1955
Description: Three children examining the contents of an apron pouch.
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Children Gathering Eggs

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Description: A boy and a girl are in a chicken coop gathering eggs. The children are dressed warmly in coats, scarves and hats.
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Kelly Kids at Gimbels

Date: 1951
Description: A group of children meeting Santa at Gimbels. Decorated Christmas trees are next to his chair.
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Eddie Cantor on Stage at Centurama

Date: 07 03 1946
Description: Eddie Cantor on stage at Centurama standing at a microphone with another man. People are standing in the background watching.
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Eddie Cantor on Stage at Centurama

Date: 08 03 1946
Description: Man putting a feather and headband on Eddie Cantor, on stage at Centurama.
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Nylon Christmas Tree

Date: 12 12 1965
Description: Portrait of a girl wearing a red top, black pants and pink slippers holding a Santa doll while sitting on the carpet in front of a white nylon Christmas tr...

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