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| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Women and children, who are members of the Monona Lake Assembly, relax beneath the trees at the Monona Lake Assembly grounds. There are tents and small bui... |
| Date: | 01 19 1956 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with Patty Kosinski, of 205 North Frances Street, posing on the 8-foot snowman she and her friends built. |
| Date: | 01 29 1956 |
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| Description: | Portrait of two of the winners from the city speed skating finals at Vilas park, Carol Stokes and Kathy Stokes. |
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| Description: | Four groups of girls in threes playing the game "London Bridge Is Falling Down," on the boulevard in front of a house. This image is part of an album kept ... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Hand-colored image from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with a group of children and two women playing a circle game outdoors. |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House with images from the Play School: a group of children posing outdoors with buckets and a parasol, director... |
| Date: | 06 1938 |
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| Description: | Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with images of a spring outing taken by the Bluebirds? and the Orioles children's groups. Children are pl... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with children crossing the street in front of the settlement house, gathering Easter eggs in the park, po... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Illustrated map of points of interest, including University buildings, parks, athletic venues, fraternity and sorority houses, and state buildings. |
| Date: | 07 09 1958 |
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| Description: | James, the three-year-old son of Philip and Mrs. Staudenraus, playing with a sprinkling can in the new University of Wisconsin library mall fountain. |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Shows potential fishing areas by species and season, as well as sand and rock bars, weed beds, public facilities, points of interest, and selected business... |
| Date: | 01 05 1959 |
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| Description: | "Bundle up Tight" is the theme of this tobogganing group as they don winter clothing in preparation for outdoor activities. Shown from left to right are Ma... |
| Date: | 01 25 1959 |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of 23 children and teen city speed skating champions for 1959. |
| Date: | 01 25 1959 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with brothers Greg and Mark Hennen of 5709 Midmoor Road standing in their snow fort and holding snowballs at the ready the day following a fiv... |
| Date: | 06 24 1959 |
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| Description: | Six Madison area teenage members of the Youth Summer Theater rehearse a scene before 30 performances of "The Magic Shoes." The plays were performed at park... |
| Date: | 10 29 1959 |
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| Description: | Susan Thomsen smiling from high atop a seesaw on a warm October day while playing at Yahara Place Park near her home at 502 Dunning Street. Houses in the b... |
| Date: | 1855 |
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| Description: | This bird's-eye-view map of Madison is looking north across Lake Monona. The map features two women and two men on a lookout on top of a building in the fo... |
| Date: | 07 08 1954 |
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| Description: | Decorated "units" stand in a line awaiting a children's parade at Conklin Park. The parade was arranged as part of the Board of Education's Recreation Divi... |
| Date: | 05 25 1961 |
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| Description: | A woman and three children standing under umbrellas behind a barrier in the street during Madison's Outdoor Living Week activities. |
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