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| Date: | 05 26 1945 |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of Boy Scouts, Troop #4 from South Side Men's Club, at Four Lakes Council Camporee in Olin Park. |
| Date: | 06 27 1978 |
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| Description: | Candid view of the Reverend Jim Wright sitting outdoors at Brittingham Park. |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | View from below of two boys on a jungle gym. Some of the brick buildings of the Jacob Riis Houses rise in the background. |
| Date: | 07 22 1952 |
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| Description: | Camper Jeanette Braxton prepares to grill food at an outdoor fireplace as one of the activities at the Brownie Hoyt Park Day Camp. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Friends of Lewis Arms enjoy beer at a party at Brittingham Park. Seated on the ground from left to right are: Elinora (mother of Lewis Arms, Jr.), Hattie, ... |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Lewis Arms is sitting in the driver's seat of a 1941(?) DeSoto automobile owned by Joe Brown, as his friend Booker T (standing) looks on. They are at James... |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Lewis Arms stands at Brittingham Park holding his infant son Lewis Arms, Jr. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Lewis, LuRay, Nellie and Bernard Arms arrive at Devil's Lake in a maroon DeSoto convertible automobile. This was the day after Lewis and LuRay's wedding. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Andrew Webb Jr. and Al. Weaver standing on a bridge over the "Catfish" (Yahara) River in Tenney Park. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Three African American women, Lucille Jones, Charlotte Simms, and Phoebe Hines, posing in Vilas Park. |
| Date: | 06 1961 |
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| Description: | A young girl is enjoying a carnival ride at Peppermint Park. She is probably a daughter of Lewis Arms. |
| Date: | 06 1961 |
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| Description: | Mamie and Rita Arms, daughters of Lewis Arms, sharing a midway ride at Peppermint Park. |
| Date: | 05 01 1966 |
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| Description: | Paul Arms touching the nose of a donkey through a fence at the Vilas Park Zoo as his sister Rita looks on. |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Some of the children of Lewis Arms (and possibly their friends) ice skating and riding on sleds on the ice at Tenney Park in the winter. |
| Date: | 05 01 1966 |
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| Description: | The Arms family posing together in front of an animal enclosure at Vilas Park Zoo. From left to right are Lewis Arms, and his children Paul Arms, Mamie Arm... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Mamie Arms climbing to the top of a swing set. |
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