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| 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." |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | A group of men watch a bocce game on a court on East Houston Street. The line of men standing on the lip of the court cast elongated silhouettes onto the ... |
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| Description: | An interior view of soldiers gathered in the Y.M.C.A. game room at Camp MacArthur, on which construction began in 1917. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A group of veterans pose while playing horseshoes at the National Military Home, which opened in 1867. In the background, the top of the National Military ... |
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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: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Girls turning rope for a young boy to skip outside the Sunnyside School in Cook County. |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | A group of men play tug-o-war on a lawn near the side of a street. Two buildings 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: | 06 13 1916 |
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| Description: | Men and children, mostly boys, are crowding around a high jump hurdle during a school festival. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | A group of children are standing in a circle under trees while playing an outdoor game led by Mrs. Markley. Two children are sitting on a tree swing to the... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Boys from Sunnyside School playing leapfrog on the lawn outside a building. Other children are sitting near a screen door in the background. |
| 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... |
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