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| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Stordock family within fenced yard playing croquet with frame house behind. There is a woodpile and small frame structure behind the house. |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Ole Bull Residence, 130 East Gilman Street. The family is playing croquet on the lawn. Later, the house was known as the Thorp House. It became the state's... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Six people playing croquet in front of picket fence; frame house with shutters and latticework on porch in background. |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Group of men playing boccie, with their shadows casting over the game on East Houston Street. |
| Date: | 05 02 1949 |
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| Description: | Carroll Becker of Norberg Electric batting in a Madison women's softball league game. The umpire is Charlie Pendergast. |
| Date: | 02 28 1987 |
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| Description: | Stephanie Johnson (from left), 16, Chanell Biami, 15, and Letesa Evans, 16, played a childhood game Friday after seeing their little sisters playing a rope... |
| Date: | 08 15 1942 |
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| Description: | Men from the armed forces working a game booth at a Civilian Defense Rally. Their hats are embroidered with the text "Greendale Wisconsin." |
| Date: | 08 15 1942 |
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| Description: | The Dogpathers booth, surrounded by a crowd of children. Text on the banners and other signs read: "Kickapoo Juice Penny Pitch" "Greendale Dogpathers Cause... |
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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, ... |
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| Description: | Two men play catch in a park-like setting. A number of trees and an outbuilding are visible. |
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| Description: | Two men crawl on their hands and knees while two other men sit atop them holding pistols. A dirt road, a fence, and foliage are in the background. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Children playing games behind a fence. In the foreground other children are playing in a sandbox on a school playground next to several buildings. |
| Date: | 05 20 1924 |
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| Description: | Children play a game outdoors beside a rural school building. |
| 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: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Children joining hands while playing in an alleyway between brick buildings in an area of tenement housing. A line of laundry suspended over the alley is h... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Children have clasped hands and formed a circle in a game of "Drop the Handkerchief." They are in the schoolyard of Farmer's Grove School, District No. 3, ... |
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