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| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Reverend Henry Faville and his son, Ted, are seated around a small table playing chess in their home. |
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| Description: | Portrait of Loyd G. Harris and family holding pool cues. |
| Date: | 04 09 1956 |
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| Description: | Male and female teenagers participate together jumping rope. |
| Date: | 05 20 1924 |
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| Description: | Country school children playing "Baby in the Hole." There is a hand-pump in the background under trees. |
| Date: | 03 28 1980 |
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| Description: | A frisbee is backlit by the sun as a boy reaches out to catch it. |
| Date: | 03 09 1989 |
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| Description: | Calvin Johnson, right, Custer High School chess champion, takes on Paul Henk to defend his title. |
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| Description: | Polo horses take graceful strides as two players vie to hit the ball at Joy Farms. |
| Date: | 11 07 1944 |
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| Description: | Booth at the U.S.O. Carnival sponsered by the Milwaukee Road Employees Service Club, featuring games of chance and a model train set-up. |
| Date: | 01 18 1935 |
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| Description: | Homemade Folk Games and Puzzles, exhibited by Mrs. A.R. Henry, of Lodi, Wisconsin, at the Adult Hobby Show. |
| Date: | 08 20 |
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| Description: | Dane County tug of war champion team, dressed in overalls, with ropes used in competition. The team went to the 1934 Chicago World's Fair. |
| Date: | 05 20 1933 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Curtis Thornton, Madison's 1933 marble champion. |
| Date: | 04 30 1932 |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of 27 marble tournament champions at Breese Stevens Field. |
| Date: | 08 15 1931 |
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| Description: | Five members of the Madison Horseshoe team, at the horseshoe pit, in a neighborhood setting. Ed Tierney, Seymour J. Johnson, Julian Johnson, L. Messerschmi... |
| Date: | 08 15 1931 |
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| Description: | Outdoor portrait of Seymour J. Johnson, Madison Horseshoe champion, holding a horseshoe at the horseshoe pit. |
| Date: | 11 05 1928 |
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| Description: | Mautz Cigars and Billards window display, 832 University Avenue, advertising Chesterfield Cigarettes with a football motif. |
| Date: | 1844 |
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| Description: | Indians with ball-playing equipment, believed to be used in the game of Lacrosse. (Plate 21) "In devoting a few of the last pages of this work to some o... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Postcard depicting a group of Potawatomi men at Stone Lake playing the game of moccasin. This image is part of an exhibit about Native Americans prepared ... |
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| Description: | View of a brick school building and a crowd of students, with two boys up in a tree. Other people are posing in some of the open windows of the school. Boy... |
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| Description: | Three people playing croquet on the banks of the Mississippi River near Alma, Wis. A woman is sitting in a rowboat with a dog nearby in the background. |
| Date: | 08 03 1981 |
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| Description: | Despite rain and fog, people turned out to enjoy a street festival sponsored by the Guadalupe Center at 239 W. Washington Street in Milwaukee. There were e... |
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