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Boy Scouts, Troop #23

Date: 05 26 1945
Description: Group portrait of Boy Scouts, Troop #23 from Holy Redeemer Church, at Four Lakes Council Camporee in Olin Park.
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Boy Scouts, Troop #30

Date: 05 26 1945
Description: Group portrait of Boy Scouts, Troop #30 from Glenwood Moravian Church, at Four Lakes Council Camporee in Olin Park.
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Boy Scouts, Troop #4

Date: 05 26 1945
Description: Outdoor group portrait of Boy Scouts, Troop #4 from South Side Men's Club, at Four Lakes Council Camporee in Olin Park.
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Boy Scouts, Troop #9

Date: 05 26 1945
Description: Outdoor group portrait of Boy Scouts, Troop #9 from Parkside Presbyterian Church, at Four Lakes Council Camporee in Olin Park.
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Boy Scouts, Troop #45

Date: 05 26 1945
Description: Group portrait of Boy Scouts, Troop #45 from Stoughton, gathered around a campfire, at Four Lakes Council Camporee in Olin Park.
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Lincoln Street Circus

Date: 08 22 1931
Description: Group portrait taken in Vilas Park of children, and a few adults, some in costume, from the Lincoln Street-West Side area, who put on a circus to raise mon...
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New Drinking Fountain at Vilas Park

Date: 07 13 1931
Description: Children with Fred Winkelmann around the John L. Bourke drinking fountain, designed by Fred Winkelmann, Director of the Henry Vilas Zoo (Vilas Park Zoo). T...
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Penn Park Opening

Date: 06 09 1948
Description: Group portrait of six men and one boy at a baseball game between the Penn Electrics and the Sauk City Red Sox marking the grand opening of Penn Park. Art L...
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Train Ride at Madison Labor Festival

Date: 08 31 1948
Description: Madison Labor officials riding on a tiny train at the 6-day Labor Festival at Olbrich Park.
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Monona Bay Bathers

Date: 1918
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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Santa Claus and Children

Date: 11 23 1948
Description: Children crowded around Santa Claus at the annual East Side community Christmas tree celebration in Riverside Park.
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Mrs. Preston E. McNall Jr. and Son Bruce

Date: 08 10 1949
Description: Mrs. Preston E. "Sandy" McNall Jr. holds her young son, Bruce, while on a beach. The McNalls are from West Lafayette, Indiana and are spending the summer a...
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Tabernacle at Monona Lake Assembly

Date: 1895
Description: The Tabernacle and attendees at the Monona Lake Assembly. The assembly, Madison's annual Chautauqua, was held on the site of the present-day Olin Park.
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Woman and Child at Brittingham Park

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Description: View of a woman in a bathing suit and a toddler at Brittingham Park.
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Performing Dogs

Date: 1910
Description: A small crowd watch as eight dogs perform in Capitol Park. There are circus or carnival tents erected along Pinckney Street, and the First National Bank (l...
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Picnic Grounds at Black Bridge Boat Livery

Date: 1926
Description: A group of women and children sit at a picnic table at the Black Bridge Boat Livery off Highway 12. Behind them is a building with a screened porch facing ...
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Picnic of Dane County Farmers

Date: 09 07 1900
Description: View of a crowd in Grosnick's Woods during a picnic of the farmers of Dane County.
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Griggs Album: Mothers Day at Camp Anna Vilas

Date: 05 1924
Description: Mothers and small children standing and posing in Vilas Park, with other mothers and older children lying prone, propping themselves up with their elbows, ...
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Scrapbook: Play School Outing

Date: 06 1938
Description: Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with images of a spring outing taken by the Bluebirds? and the Orioles children's groups. Children are pl...
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Scrapbook: Easter Egg Hunt

Date: 03 1940
Description: Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with images of children on an Easter egg hunt in Columbus Park and crossing the street on their return, a...

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