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| 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: | 09 19 1950 |
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| Description: | Florence Crowley, an active volunteer at St. Mary's Hospital, working on a jigsaw puzzle with Ronald Paar, age 9 of Cross Plains, and Kenneth Krall, age 4 ... |
| Date: | 10 31 1950 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 01 31 1951 |
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| Description: | An unidentified University of Wisconsin student looks on as fellow student, Jim Healy of Milwaukee (right), practices for the barrel stave races. The race ... |
| Date: | 01 31 1951 |
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| Description: | Members of the Kappa Gamma sorority team on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus are pictured practicing for the broom hockey matches to be held as p... |
| Date: | 08 04 1953 |
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| Description: | A scene at YWCA's day camp at Camp Wakanda, located on a shore of Lake Mendota. Five boys play a Skee ball game on "Carnival Night." Left to right: Michael... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | William Middleton, left, plays chess against an unidentified opponent. Williams' son, Forest, with chin in hands, watches with an unidentified man and wom... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Forest Middleton, left, prepares a pool shot while his opponent looks on. They are playing on a portable pool table in Forest's room. Photographs, cigar ad... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Forest Middleton, left, and Arthur Strelow, play chess with the board resting on their knees. Drapes hang in a doorway; there are also two round tables wit... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A collection of chess sets displayed on a table with Walter Thomas Mills' 1904 book "The Struggle for Existence." |
| Date: | 04 06 1954 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Kermit "Kert" Bliss. He became director of the Madison Community Center after serving as acting director since August 1952. The Center's progr... |
| Date: | 10 26 1954 |
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| Description: | Carol Hanson bobbing for an apple as Donna Tupper laughingly looks on. |
| Date: | 05 21 1956 |
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| Description: | East High School Future Nurse's Club members perform volunteer activities at the Wisconsin Nuerological Hospital. Students Marily Detter (left) and Adeline... |
| Date: | 08 07 1956 |
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| Description: | Babysitter Linda Taylor plays a game with Mary Teresa Charlton. |
| Date: | 11 12 1992 |
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| Description: | "For the second year in a row the Mayville High School football team carried unbeaten records into the championship finals at Camp Randall Stadium. Both ye... |
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| Description: | Four groups of girls in threes playing the game "London Bridge Is Falling Down," on the boulevard in front of a house. This image is part of an album kept ... |
| Date: | 07 16 1957 |
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| Description: | Cathryn Montgomery, with her daughter, 3-year-old Cathy Sue, visiting Cathryn's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Leon W. Pettersen, on Prospect Avenue. |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Hand-colored image from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with a group of children and two women playing a circle game outdoors. |
| Date: | 10 07 1957 |
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| 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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| Description: | Young men playing a game of checkers at Neighborhood House. Three men are seated at a small table with the game board, while six others crowd around them, ... |
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