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School Children Playing "Baby in the Hole"

Date: 05 20 1924
Description: Country school children playing "Baby in the Hole." There is a hand-pump in the background under trees.
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Brick School and Students

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Description: View of a brick school building and a crowd of students, with two boys up in a tree. Other people are posing in some of the open windows of the school. Boy...
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Ohio Chemical Bingo Party

Date: 11 18 1950
Description: A large group of Ohio Chemical and Surgical Equipment Company employees sitting at tables playing bingo at East High School, 2222 East Washington Avenue.
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Ohio Chemical Bingo Party

Date: 11 18 1950
Description: A large group of Ohio Chemical and Surgical Equipment Company employees sitting at tables playing bingo at East High School, 2222 East Washington Avenue, a...
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Madison School Children with Game Boards

Date: 03 24 1945
Description: Group portrait of ten children with game boards illustrating activities sponsored by Madison School Community Recreation activities.
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Civil Rights Workshop Members Wearing Hats

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Description: Two members, one male and one female, of a Civil Rights Workshop at Highlander Folk School, participating in a game. The man is wearing a homemade hat.
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Washington School Hearing Clinic

Date: 07 15 1948
Description: Participants in a large-scale hearing clinic held at Washington School in Madison and sponsored by the University of Wisconsin departments of speech and ed...
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Junior Red Cross Variety Show

Date: 02 23 1949
Description: Junior Red Cross variety show. James Stiene and Dick Grahn with sticks, work hard in the variety show's Chinese play under the supervision of Bob Pickarts....
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Marquette School Family Fun Night

Date: 03 14 1949
Description: Marquette school gym teacher, Glenn Hall, referees a game of "sisters" at Marquette school family fun night.
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Marquette School Family Fun Night

Date: 03 14 1949
Description: Billy Lorenz and a friend's dad, Howard Wagner, participating in the relay race during Marquette school's family fun night.
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Recreation Student Teaches Brownies

Date: 11 23 1949
Description: University of Wisconsin recreation student Barbara Burrell teaches Brownies to play "Duck, Duck, Goose." Shown are Dudgeon School Brownies Troop 102: Maril...
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Lapham School Halloween Party Bobbing For Apples

Date: 10 31 1950
Description: At Lapham School, more than 800 costumed children and their parents attended one of the largest Halloween night parties held in Madison. A boy is shown bob...
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Children Playing Jump Rope

Date: 1920
Description: Girls turning rope for a young boy to skip outside the Sunnyside School in Cook County.
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Children at Playground

Date: 1925
Description: Children playing games behind a fence. In the foreground other children are playing in a sandbox on a school playground next to several buildings.
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Schoolchildren Playing Outdoors

Date: 05 20 1924
Description: Children play a game outdoors beside a rural school building.
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High Jump

Date: 06 13 1916
Description: Men and children, mostly boys, are crowding around a high jump hurdle during a school festival.
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Children Playing Leapfrog

Date: 1920
Description: Boys from Sunnyside School playing leapfrog on the lawn outside a building. Other children are sitting near a screen door in the background.
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East High School Future Nurse's Club

Date: 05 21 1956
Description: East High School Future Nurse's Club members perform volunteer activities at the Wisconsin Nuerological Hospital. Students Marily Detter (left) and Adeline...
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Student Nurse Week

Date: 10 07 1957
Description: Two Methodist Hospital student nurses play checkers with patients at the hospital. At left is Susan Miller and at right is Mary Kane. They are participatin...
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Children Playing

Date: 1935
Description: Children have clasped hands and formed a circle in a game of "Drop the Handkerchief." They are in the schoolyard of Farmer's Grove School, District No. 3, ...

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