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Lowell School Girls Baseball Team

Date: 07 13 1932
Description: Group portrait of Lowell School playground girls' baseball team.
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Playground Scene

Date: 07 10 1948
Description: Playing on the swings at Wingra Park are James Bruce swinging Anne Meyers, Mike Cantwell swinging Peggy Aspinwall, and James Clark swinging Rene Burkhalter...
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Playground Scene

Date: 07 10 1948
Description: Playing in the sandbox at Olbrich Park are Mary Lou Whitney, Ann Spilde, Patsy White, year-old Noreen Kay Morehouse and some playmates.
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Eagle Heights Kids on Swings

Date: 09 24 1948
Description: Five children with one adult are shown playing on swings at Eagle Heights, a University of Wisconsin-Madison housing development built for faculty families...
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University Faculty Houses in Eagle Heights

Date: 07 21 1949
Description: Mid-morning refreshments are an important part of the day for youngsters at the University Faculty Housing playground. Mrs. Harold Green pours a fruit drin...
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University Faculty Houses in Eagle Heights

Date: 07 21 1949
Description: Mrs. H.E. Colbert supervises her daughter, Bonita, and Susan Hickey, both 2 years old, as they play in a sand pile at one of the play areas with wooden blo...
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Group Portrait on Playground Slide

Date: 1920
Description: A group of friends pose on a playground slide. Included in the group are Cresence Esser Bowar, Matt Bowar (husband of Cresence), Herbert Esser (brother of ...
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Madison Summer Playground Activities

Date: 08 16 1950
Description: Mrs. Irene M. Borman, playground director at the Milton-Charter park for twelve years, sitting at a sand box with youngsters Joane Bruno, Kay Kerwin, and T...
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Nakoma Kindergarten Children

Date: 10 30 1950
Description: Nakoma School kindergarten children standing on the playground while playing cowboys and Indians. Three boys are wearing Indian headdresses.
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Thuy Nguyen and Ronald McDonald

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Description: Thuy Nguyen poses in front of a Ronald McDonald figure in a public play area. She is wearing a red vinyl jacket. A Pizza Hut sign is visible in the backgro...
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Nguyen Children at Playground

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Description: The children of Trong and Hong Nguyen pose on a playground structure shaped to look like the McDonald's character The Grimace. From left to right in...
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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...

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