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Date: | 07 1923 |
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Description: | Children at play in a dirt alley on Chicago's west side. |
Date: | 06 26 1986 |
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Description: | Kids make a "train," with the bicyclist in the front pulling three girls on roller skates along a sidewalk. |
Date: | 08 05 1927 |
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Description: | Elephants drinking water from a wagon pulled by a McCormick-Deering industrial tractor outside a circus tent belonging to the Sells-Floto Circus. Circus wo... |
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Description: | Three young boys and one girl at play near a house. Two boys are fixing the wheels on a tricycle and wagon. The girl, holding a doll, is looking on and the... |
Date: | 06 1927 |
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Description: | Young boy and a toddler relaxing on a homemade tree swing made with an automobile seat. |
Date: | 09 1925 |
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Description: | Kenneth Chipman riding a toy railroad engine on the farm of W.W. Chipman. Worked by footpower and with a working whistle bell, the toy engine follows track... |
Date: | 1925 |
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Description: | Three young children playing with a wagon in a squalid alley between rows of impoverished houses. Trash and rubble litter the alley. |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | A boy is driving two turkeys yoked together that are pulling his small wagon loaded with vegetables. Painted on the side of the wagon: "Birdsell, South Ben... |
Date: | 1922 |
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Description: | School friends Ethel and Eleanor fence-sit on a summer day. |
Date: | 05 28 1955 |
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Description: | The Riesen family, John, Jeanne, Linda and Jon, playing in their home. |
Date: | 04 09 1956 |
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Description: | Male and female teenagers participate together jumping rope. |
Date: | 1905 |
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Description: | Group of children playing with a makeshift diving board at Brittingham Bay swimming hole. |
Date: | 1955 |
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Description: | Winter scene with Mark Mueller, the photographer's son standing ankle deep in snow with a dog, and smiling as the snow continues to fall. The family was sl... |
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Description: | Children and a few adults (possibly teachers) hold hands in a circle while other children stand by or swing under a tree in a rural setting. Horse-drawn ca... |
Date: | 05 20 1924 |
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Description: | Country school children playing "Baby in the Hole." There is a hand-pump in the background under trees. |
Date: | 1920 |
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Description: | Mother and her four children playing on the steps of a house. The children are playing with blocks, dolls and a stuffed animal. |
Date: | 1913 |
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Description: | Children playing in a sand box, or "sand garden" at the Woodlawn School garden. American flags are planted in the sand and a teacher or older child is hold... |
Date: | 12 28 1962 |
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Description: | Jean Meyer plays with the sucker she got at a mother-daugher Christmas holiday tea. |
Date: | 09 12 1971 |
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Description: | Children fashioned their seesaw using a board, and a barricade with a sign that reads: "Road Closed" that they found in an empty lot. |
Date: | 02 11 1955 |
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Description: | A winter scene with boys playing basketball in the snow, with temperatures around 10 below zero. |
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