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| Description: | A group of children and adults at a wading pool in a park. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Four children, one boy and three girls, playing on a a swing set outside of a brick building, probably a school. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Two picnic tables in a clearing at picnic grove. |
| Date: | 07 04 1944 |
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| Description: | Side view of a woman pulling a little boy in a decorated coaster wagon in a Fourth of July parade. The boy is holding a bottle of milk with white streamers... |
| Date: | 07 04 1944 |
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| Description: | A small boy is standing next to a baby in a decorated coaster wagon before a Fourth of July parade. A large crowd is standing on the grass behind them, and... |
| Date: | 07 04 1944 |
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| Description: | A crowd of children are lines up in a park with bicycles and tricycles decorated with streamers and tissue paper before a Fourth of July parade. |
| Date: | 07 04 1944 |
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| Description: | Five girls dressed as flowers, probably as part of a Fourth of July "Garden Queen" pageant. The girls are standing in a row and each of the girls has a num... |
| Date: | 07 04 1944 |
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| Description: | A line of girls dressed as flowers, probably as part of a Fourth of July "Garden Queen" pageant. The girls are standing in a long line and each of the girl... |
| Date: | 07 04 1944 |
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| Description: | Four girls standing in a row dressed as flowers, probably as part of a Fourth of July "Garden Queen" pageant. Each of the girls has a number around her arm... |
| Date: | 02 19 1940 |
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| Description: | A couple, most likely Gerda Wank with Joe Puccetti, in the middle of an ice skating exhibition. A crowd of children and adults is watching from a snowbank ... |
| Date: | 02 11 1941 |
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| Description: | A couple, most likely Gerda Wank with Joe Puccetti, in the middle of an ice skating exhibition. The man is holding the woman almost parallel to the ice whi... |
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| Description: | A young boy is in mid-swing playing tennis on a tennis court. Other tennis players, houses and a park are visible in the background. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Flag pole with limestone carving of women and men by Alonzo Hauser, who was appointed by the Farm Security Administration, at its base. The sculpture was b... |
| Date: | 12 1938 |
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| Description: | A device spraying water to create an ice rink. The rink was 115 x 200 ft. and was opened sometime during Christmas week 1938. There are houses and pedestri... |
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| Description: | A teacher waiting for students in the doorway of a school bus parked in the driveway near a brick building. A driver and other adults are visible in the in... |
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| Description: | Winter scene with a tractor outfitted with a rotating brush device clearing snow from a fenced-in ice rink with overhead lights. |
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| Description: | Rear view of a trench dug by a ditch digger. A man walks towards the ditch digger from two trucks, one fitted with a crane-like attachment, which are parke... |
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| Description: | Two men are near a creek, swollen with rainwater, running through Center Park. A footbridge crosses the creek which has large stones along its banks. Trees... |
| Date: | 06 15 1953 |
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| Description: | Fritz Wegner, left, director of Madison's Boys Baseball program, watches the action at Vilas park with some of the boys. |
| Date: | 06 28 1953 |
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| Description: | Winkie, the Vilas Park elephant, attending a celebration of her third birthday. Attendants accompanying Winkie are Tom Frisch, extreme left; Zoo director H... |
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