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| Description: | A group of young boys gathered at the steps at the front of a house engaging in some kind of game, perhaps a game of chance. One boy is sitting above them ... |
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| Description: | A group of girls playing jacks on a city sidewalk. All the girls are wearing dresses, and two infants are present, one in a carriage and one in the lap of ... |
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| Description: | A group of boys play a game of cards while sitting on the ground between the steps of some houses. At least four boys wear caps, three are wearing pants wi... |
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| Description: | A group of boys "following their leader in search of adventure" in the street. The boys are barefoot and are wearing hats. In the background are a storefro... |
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| Description: | Several boys play a street game in a residential area, two blocks away from the deserted playground. |
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| Description: | Children having a stone fight in an unpaved alley or street in an underprivileged neighborhood. Some of the boys are holding trash can lids as protection, ... |
| Date: | 06 23 1950 |
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| Description: | Glenn "Pat" Holmes (left) and Frank Blau, directors of the Madison summer playground program, are shown checking equipment out to the 30 playgrounds which ... |
| Date: | 06 28 1950 |
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| Description: | Sherry Klein (right) playing a game of checkers with Janice Wirioff at the Milton-Charter park playground as Edward Lambert, Kenneth and Shirley Bloom are ... |
| Date: | 07 10 1950 |
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| Description: | Three boys playing a game of "washers" at the Olbrich park playground, one of the thirty parks included in the summer playground program sponsored by the B... |
| Date: | 06 29 1950 |
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| Description: | Girl assemble for Brownie Girl Scout day camp at Hoyt Park. |
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| Description: | Children seated around a triangular table in the loggia (hallway) of the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed meeting house of the First Unitarian Society. They ap... |
| 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: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Children playing outdoors at the Packinghouse Workers summer picnic. |
| 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 ... |
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| Description: | Two men play catch in a park-like setting. A number of trees and an outbuilding are visible. |
| 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... |
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| Description: | Two men pose playing a game of chess in front of a cloth backdrop in Dankoler's photography studio. The man on the right is standing and is holding what ap... |
| 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... |
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| Description: | A group of Native Americans sitting in a circle outside of two structures while playing a gambling game. Caption reads: "Indian Gambling Game." |
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