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Children Playing in Bedroom

Date: 02 10 1955
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.
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Girl with Dolls

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Description: Young Jennie Krueger, the photographer's daughter, sitting with her dolls on the porch.
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Playing House

Date: 01 16 1964
Description: A young girl watches out the door of her playhouse while a young boy retrieves letters from the play mailbox.
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Inkle Looms

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Description: Two girls seated on a bench outdoors and working inkle looms.
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Reverend Carl Christian Aas Home

Date: 1873
Description: The home of the Reverend Carl Christian Aas (1843-1898), with the family posing around a table in front of a fence in the foreground. There is a rocking ho...
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Reverend H.A. Preus and Family

Date: 1873
Description: Reverend H.A. Preus and his family pose seated outdoors in front of the Spring Prairie parsonage.
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University of Wisconsin Farm and Home Week

Date: 02 04 1948
Description: Mothers of young children view display of "New Uses of Familiar Things" at the University of Wisconsin Farm and Home Week. Pictured left to right: Susan Ma...
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Bis and Doll

Date: 1914
Description: Florence Lloyd Jones, known as Bis or Bisser, born Oct. 9, 1913, daughter of Richard & Georgia Lloyd Jones, sitting with her doll in an upholstered chair.
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Jenk and Mother

Date: 1912
Description: Georgia Lloyd Jones holds her son Jenkin Lloyd Jones, born Nov. 1911, on a hobby horse.
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4-H Club Week

Date: 02 26 1949
Description: Mary Henshue, age 10, has just become eligible for 4-H. She is shown sewing doll clothes. She is a member of the Silver Badgers 4-H Club. A dollhouse is on...
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Family Service Agency

Date: 05 04 1949
Description: Mrs. Margaret Mentzner, a fulltime employee of the Family Service Agency, is shown caring and cooking for two small children whose mother is sick and absen...
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Children with Christmas Tree

Date: 1902
Description: Cary and Everetta Bass with their Christmas tree. Cary holds a toy horn; Everetta holds a doll.
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Everetta and Sewing Machine

Date: 1894
Description: Everetta Bass stands in a room near chairs in front of a treadle sewing machine. A doll buggy is also visible. A tapestry or blanket hangs on the wall on t...
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Outdoor Portrait of Children

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Description: Outdoor portrait of five children and various dolls in front of a small wooden structure or cabin. A boy is standing on the left side, holding the handle t...
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Neighborhood House Activities Scrapbook: Play School

Date: 1946
Description: Image from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with three girls standing and sitting at a table with a play telephone, a kitchen beater, and play dishe...
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"We Saw You" at the Middleton Fashion Show

Date: 04 26 1957
Description: At a "We Saw You" fashion show, Miriam Hauri (left), Joan Faust, and Joanne Schoepp model pajamas they made. They are each holding a stuffed animal. The gi...
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Woodworking Group at Neighborhood House

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Description: Boys working on various stages of woodwork projects, with two boys in the foreground kneeling by some wooden toy animals with jointed limbs. The settlement...
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135 - Cabin IV at Bedtime

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Description: Large group of campers outside their cabin, dressed in pajamas and bathrobes. Some of them are using dippers with metal pails; on the far left a row of dip...
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Sewing Circle of Luther Memorial Church

Date: 02 09 1956
Description: Three women and a girl are sitting and chatting at a table while making toys for a Madison hospital. Shown as they sew and stuff cloth toys, are (left to r...
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Sun Prairie Corn Festival

Date: 08 19 1961
Description: John Lynch (10) of Sun Prairie is shown biting into an ear of corn at the annual corn festival.

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