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| Date: | 12 01 1968 |
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| Description: | A girl wearing a coat and hat with her arm raised, as if she has just tossed something. In front of her is a clear bowl holding three small balls. Behind h... |
| Date: | 03 18 1955 |
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| Description: | Middleton cheerleaders celebrate their team's victory over Shorewood at the Wisconsin State High School Basketball Tournament at the U.W. Field House. The ... |
| Date: | 12 1954 |
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| Description: | Belle Richman, Rose Dolinky, and Florence Krash (wife of Rabbi Hyman Krash) are operating a bingo game at a holiday party for patients at the Veterans Hos... |
| Date: | 08 1905 |
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| Description: | Holding lawn tennis rackets, siblings Donald and Eleanor Holt are playing tether ball. The wooden pole with the tethered ball is standing between the two ... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | W.H. Young, holding a lawn tennis racquet, is playing tetherball against a man who has his back to the camera. A central wooden tetherball pole divides the... |
| Date: | 06 29 1957 |
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| Description: | Group of children on a city playground playing dodge ball (called "ball tag"). The boy on far left is finishing a toss. |
| Date: | 06 29 1957 |
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| Description: | Two boys playing "washers" game at a city playground. |
| Date: | 06 29 1957 |
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| Description: | Two kids at an outdoor table in a shelter playing checkers with three more looking on and "kibitzing." |
| Date: | 06 27 1935 |
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| Description: | Group of boys playing marble game outdoors. One image under the headline: "The Kids Love Alaska; There's So Much to Do." Original caption reads: "Marbles s... |
| Date: | 11 01 1960 |
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| Description: | Action shot during Stoughton - Monona Grove football game shows Stoughton player Jim Kanvik (22) carrying the ball while teammate Paul Lysne (42) is blocki... |
| Date: | 11 01 1960 |
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| Description: | Action shot during the Stoughton - Monona Grove football game shows halfback Paul Lysne as he ran 27 yards for the second of his three Stoughton touchdowns... |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | On the left, little Betty Ann is getting a piggyback ride from Clarence Showalter. In contrast, on the right, big Lillian Wheeler is getting a piggyback ri... |
| Date: | 08 11 1914 |
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| Description: | W.A. Holt, second from the right, and a group of mostly children are playing in Archibald Lake. On the far left, Alfred Holt is giving a thumbs up, with a ... |
| Date: | 08 28 1904 |
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| Description: | Maggie von der Sump, center, is holding a ring sausage as two teams of three women each pull on opposite ends of a thin rope. Maggie's sisters Leta, far le... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Children and adults having a tug of war during a play day at Marquette School. A fence and dwellings are in the background. |
| Date: | 11 09 1960 |
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| Description: | A uniformed police officer is sitting in a folding chair and moving pieces on a chessboard. Caption reads: "On duty Tuesday at the voting place in t... |
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