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| Description: | Children riding the carousel (merry-go-round) at Henry Vilas Zoo (Vilas Park Zoo), donated by the citizens of the Madison area. A stone bridge is in the ba... |
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| Description: | View from a stone bridge towards Vilas Park, with children riding the carousel (merry-go-round) and a kiddie train adjacent to the lagoon. |
| Date: | 08 27 1931 |
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| Description: | Virginia Gillette demonstrates how residents in the 400 block of Virginia Terrace are combating traffic dangers by spanking. Dicky Dupois is over her knee,... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | A little girl rides a tricycle in front of the Spot Lunch diner, a former streetcar. The Spot Lunch was located at 640 Williamson Street and owned by John ... |
| Date: | 07 11 1955 |
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| Description: | Three children, Jackie LeTourneau, Debra Ranes, and Ester Thayer, playing in the tot lot at the Neighborhood House, 768 West Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with children sledding down 400 block of North Pinckney Street, Madison, Wisconsin, including 10 boys on a coasting bobsled. Three houses are ... |
| Date: | 06 14 1944 |
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| Description: | Billy Wiedenbeck pushing Wally Britton into the water from a swimming platform. |
| Date: | 06 14 1944 |
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| Description: | Children in swimming suits playing in a miniature lake created by heavy rains in the area of Fox and Prospect Avenues. |
| Date: | 11 10 1944 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with a young girl (possibly Polly Pyre, the daughter of Russell B. Pyre) in a snowsuit standing with an "Airline Pilot" sled. |
| Date: | 12 06 1947 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with Betty Ann and Arthur G. Field on a sled in the snow with their mother Elizabeth Field kneeling next to them near a stone wall. The family... |
| Date: | 12 23 1947 |
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| Description: | Three teenagers posing on the steps of the toboggan slide at Hoyt Park. Ascending the steps are Al Gay, Mary Homann, and Ruth Ann Gay. Two young boys are s... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Children in the backyard of the Walker mansion. Buildings along the west side of the 600 block of South Brearly Street including Monona Apartments can be ... |
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| Description: | Reginald Jackson, Jr., of Madison, in his motorized two-seat toy car. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Two young boys sitting in a car wearing hats and sunglasses, play cops and robbers. One of the boys is thought to be Reginald Jackson, Jr., of Madison. App... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Richard "Dick" Lloyd Jones and his sister Florence Lloyd Jones (Bis or Bisser) each sit in separate coaster wagons. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Jenkin and Dick Lloyd Jones stand with their bicycles on Walker Court. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Florence (Bis) Lloyd Jones sits in the water at the edge of a lake, probably Lake Monona, wearing inflatable water wings. |
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| Description: | A young boy and his little dog sit together on a toy tractor in a driveway behind a parked car. |
| Date: | 07 10 1950 |
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| Description: | Three boys playing a game of "washers" at the Olbrich park playground, one of the thirty parks included in the summer playground program sponsored by the B... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Delos and Marian Dudley riding cart on sidewalk at 1909 Regent Street. Randall School is probably the large building in the background. |
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