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| Date: | 10 29 1959 |
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| Description: | Susan Thomsen smiling from high atop a seesaw on a warm October day while playing at Yahara Place Park near her home at 502 Dunning Street. Houses in the b... |
| Date: | 07 20 1961 |
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| Description: | Two children walking home carrying their costumes following a Dress Up Day celebration at a city playground. |
| Date: | 07 20 1961 |
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| Description: | Children attend a Dress Up Day celebration at Truax Park playground. A child is finishing up her costume at center. |
| Date: | 07 20 1961 |
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| Description: | Children in costumes line up as three mothers judge their costumes. The finalist contestants are dressed as assorted characters including a hula dancer, an... |
| Date: | 07 25 1961 |
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| Description: | Costumed Jimmy Mick (6) eating a long strand of molten marshmallow at the Hobo Party held in Wirth Ct. Park. |
| Date: | 07 25 1961 |
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| Description: | Soot-smudged Dorothy Phelan (3) eating a charcoal toasted marshmallow at the Wirth Ct. Park Hobo Party. |
| Date: | 07 25 1961 |
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| Description: | Kathy Ellis (4) is shown using an insulated stick to push her marshmallows over the fire at the Hobo Party at the Wirth Ct. playground. |
| Date: | 08 29 1961 |
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| Description: | Joseph (Roundy) Coughlin is shown trying to get on board a new whirl-a-round at Children's Park at Central Wisconsin Colony and Training School. The new pl... |
| Date: | 08 05 1965 |
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| Description: | Kathy Kurtz, a playground leader at Cherokee Heights playground, playing tether ball with youngsters at her playground. |
| Date: | 06 29 1957 |
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| Description: | Group of children on a city playground playing dodge ball (called "ball tag"). The boy on far left is finishing a toss. |
| Date: | 06 29 1957 |
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| Description: | Two boys playing "washers" game at a city playground. |
| Date: | 06 29 1957 |
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| Description: | Three girls watching the neighbor kids at play at a city playground. A girl in the foreground has pins holding her hair and the caption calls her a "Pin-U... |
| Date: | 06 29 1957 |
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| Description: | Two kids at an outdoor table in a shelter playing checkers with three more looking on and "kibitzing." |
| Date: | 06 29 1957 |
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| Description: | Children playing croquet at a city playground. The boy is pointing to where he is aiming to hit his ball with the mallet. The caption reads: "I'm going tha... |
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