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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... |
| Date: | 07 13 1932 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of Lowell School playground girls' baseball team. |
| Date: | 06 10 1932 |
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| Description: | Playground instructors group, men and women, with department heads. |
| Date: | 05 25 1928 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of ESBMA (East Side Business Men's Association) men posing after clearing field for playground at Burr Jones Field, 1800 E. Washington Avenu... |
| Date: | 05 25 1928 |
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| Description: | ESBMA (East Side Business Men's Association) men clearing area for playground at Burr Jones Field at 1800 E. Washington Street. |
| Date: | 06 28 1951 |
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| Description: | Children playing outside the nursery school classroom at the First Unitarian Society meeting house while teachers are watching. The building was designed b... |
| Date: | 06 28 1951 |
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| Description: | Children playing outside the nursery school classroom at the First Unitarian Society Meeting House. The building was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Front view of public school building with playground. Caption reads: "Public School - Black Earth, Wis." |
| Date: | 11 28 1971 |
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| Description: | Tot Lot, a play area for small children created from a vacant lot, funded by the Federal Urban Renewal Authority. |
| Date: | 06 10 1944 |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of the four Cantwell children of 2801 Monroe Street, on a slide at Edgewood School. From top: Michael, Jeffrey, Connie, and Roger. |
| Date: | 12 1944 |
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| Description: | Playground equipment with a ladder, swing and teeter totter. |
| Date: | 07 10 1948 |
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| Description: | Outdoors at Lapham School, Al Johnson, Carolyn Mitchell, Noel McGuigan, and Joan Adler are singing to the ukelele accompaniment of Tom Adler, standing, and... |
| Date: | 07 10 1948 |
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| Description: | Larry Downey, Tommy Halverson, upside down, Buddy Halverson, Larry Tollen and Ronny Kather are playing on the climbing bars at Marquette School. |
| Date: | 07 10 1948 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 07 10 1948 |
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| Description: | Playing in the sandbox at Olbrich Park are Mary Lou Whitney, Ann Spilde, Patsy White, year-old Noreen Kay Morehouse and some playmates. |
| Date: | 09 24 1948 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 07 21 1949 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 07 21 1949 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 04 1945 |
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| Description: | Graphite pencil and colored pencil drawing on drafting vellum of design for Glenwood Children's Park designed by Jens Jensen. Original drawing 33 x 29 inch... |
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