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| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | A Wisconsin family inside their new bomb shelter. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Young children reading at the library. A librarian works near the circulation desk in the background. When it opened in 1938, the Library had a seating cap... |
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| Description: | Students gathered closely around their teachers in the kindergarten room on the south end of the school. The open hearth, fireplace, high ceilings and wind... |
| Date: | 05 1958 |
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| Description: | A father, Peter Froeming, watching as his three children George, Robert, and Roseann are playing with wooden blocks, with a small toy canoe in the foregrou... |
| Date: | 03 1909 |
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| Description: | A young boy and girl sitting on an iron bedstead in the corner of their unkempt bedroom. |
| Date: | 06 21 1967 |
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| Description: | Young female children celebrate a sleepover while four girls in bed watch another girl toss a pillow in the air. They are smiling gleefully while the pill... |
| Date: | 12 28 1981 |
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| Description: | Father reading "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" by Mark Twain to his son. |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | A man dressed in a Smokey Bear costume is standing with two Milwaukee school children. A young girl is sitting at a desk, and a boy is standing and holding... |
| Date: | 02 10 1955 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of boy sitting on a toy fire engine, another boy dressed as a cowboy, and a girl with a toy cash register playing in the bedroom. |
| Date: | 05 08 1955 |
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| Description: | A boy in the bath tub being bathed by his mother. |
| Date: | 05 08 1955 |
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| Description: | Mother and daughter washing dishes together. |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | The Easter week investigation of unemployment conditions with Professor Ross's class showing five children lined up by wooden fence with buildings in the b... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Long row of men in suits and hats fishing on the breakwater. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Two young girls with bows in their hair jump rope as a boy watches. |
| Date: | 02 15 1957 |
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| Description: | John Fischer, age 11, demonstrates his invention, a "walking and talking" robot. The robot's eyes light up, and it rolls back and forth on a platform. |
| Date: | 12 06 1967 |
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| Description: | Instructor teaching the harmful effects of smoking, drinking alcohol, and using drugs. |
| Date: | 10 30 1968 |
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| Description: | Three children, dressed up in homemade astronaut costumes for Halloween. One clever parent has made good use of a football helmet! |
| Date: | 02 27 1984 |
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| Description: | A sixth grade class dresses up as cave people to experience the likeness of living in pre-historic times. |
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