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| Date: | 07 21 1949 |
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| Description: | Mid-morning refreshments are an important part of the day for youngsters at the University Faculty Housing playground. Mrs. Harold Green pours a fruit drin... |
| Date: | 02 23 1950 |
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| Description: | Children play on an ice slide created by two residents of the barracks apartments at Truax Field. A swing set is in the background. |
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| Description: | Children playing on the playground at the State Fair. The children form lines to climb up the two tall ladders to slide down a pole. Several children are n... |
| Date: | 08 16 1950 |
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| Description: | A group of kids play a paper game "Air Defense" with two playground directors at a table in Vilas Park. Sitting around the table, from left, are: Nancy Bri... |
| 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: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of school children running and playing on open school grounds. There is a schoolhouse in the background. |
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| Description: | Elevated view across road towards Grove-Putnam Park. A short, stone wall separates automobiles parked on the road near the park. People are sitting at picn... |
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| Description: | A view of children playing on the swingset, slide, and other playground equipment at a park. A wooden building is located behind the playground, and the pa... |
| Date: | 03 13 1915 |
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| Description: | Several children clearing land for a new school playground. Three boys are using axes to chop a log, and other children are gathered near the fire. Three b... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Children are sitting on benches looking at books, and other children are playing in a sandbox at Happy Hearts Park. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A woman stands with two white dogs among the trees at Effinger Park. The park features benches, a pump, a lawn swing, a gazebo and three cabins. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | View of the high school. The building features an arched doorway, a hip roof with three dormers on the front and one on the side, a domed steeple with an A... |
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| Description: | A pathway through a park. There is a playground on the right, and a boy is nearby on what appears to be a shoreline. A pavilion is beyond trees on the left... |
| Date: | 08 03 1954 |
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| Description: | Ronda Pyne holding the reins of a pony at the Franklin School playground while wearing a cowboy hat. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Children play on slides, see-saws, and swings in the playground of the public school. |
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| Description: | Food conservation is demonstrated to a group outdoors at a community center. |
| Date: | 08 06 1957 |
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| Description: | The Stage Coach and truck used for the Madison Youth Summer Theater driving past a playground. Students who watched the performance are waving to the actor... |
| Date: | 06 1938 |
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| Description: | Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with images of a spring outing taken by the Bluebirds? and the Orioles children's groups. Children are pl... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Pupils and their teacher (rear) pose in front of their school house. Two cars are parked in the school yard. A man and other pupils stand near a water pump... |
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| Description: | Group of four children sitting on a merry-go-round on the lawn of a resort. In the center of the merry-go-round is a sign that reads: Made by Dells Mfg. Co... |
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