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| Date: | 06 14 1944 |
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| Description: | Carol Ann Nelson and her sister, Patty, observing the sign stating the hours that lifeguards are on duty at the beach. |
| Date: | 06 14 1944 |
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| Description: | Children in swimming suits playing in a miniature lake created by heavy rains in the area of Fox and Prospect Avenues. |
| Date: | 07 02 1944 |
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| Description: | Fourth of July celebration in Westmorland neighborhood with three men pitching horseshoes. Shown here are Elmer Nielson, 4022 Winnemac Avenue, Ray Heibel, ... |
| Date: | 07 20 1944 |
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| Description: | Boys and girls roller skating on the Olbrich playground tennis courts on a summer evening. Music is furnished by a jukebox. |
| Date: | 09 27 1944 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of midget football team, the West End Tigers, coached by Truax Field Pvt. Ralph Deck, from Chattanooga Tennessee, with Junior Coaches Harold... |
| Date: | 09 27 1944 |
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| Description: | George Michaelson, Center, and Ted Blackney, Quarterback, practicing a play. They are members of the West End Tigers midget football team. |
| Date: | 11 10 1944 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with a young girl (possibly Polly Pyre, the daughter of Russell B. Pyre) in a snowsuit standing with an "Airline Pilot" sled. |
| Date: | 12 12 1944 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with Anthony and Ritchie Purnell, children of Mr. and Mrs. William Purnell, 112 Kensington Drive, sitting on their snow fort. |
| Date: | 12 12 1944 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with the four children of Mr. and Mrs. Deane Adams, 843 Farwell Drive, Maple Bluff, on their toboggan. Left to right: Deane, Joan & Susan (twi... |
| Date: | 12 12 1944 |
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| Description: | Sydney Ann, age 4, kneeling beside her baby sister, Stephanie, who is bundled into a sled. The girls are the children of Mr. & Mrs. John Warren Fish, 816 ... |
| Date: | 04 28 1945 |
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| Description: | Children of Mr. and Mrs. Norman E. Dean, 909 Lincoln Street, playing in their sandbox. Pictured left to right: Carol 7, holding her baby sister, Derilyn 2 ... |
| Date: | 05 28 1945 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Joseph P. O'Brien, 1627 Jefferson Street, with her two daughters, playing in Vilas Park. Pictured left to right: Sharon Anne 2 1/2, and Mary Kay 1, wh... |
| Date: | 08 03 1945 |
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| Description: | Mt. Horeb children and adults splashing in the Bluemound pool during a Red Cross swimming class. |
| Date: | 08 26 1945 |
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| Description: | Dentist Dr. Raymond W. Huegel, an eleven-year member of the Madison Board of Education and chairman of its recreation committee. He was one of two sponsors... |
| Date: | 07 18 1946 |
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| Description: | Seven children playing in the sandbox with one adult at the University of Wisconsin Tent Colony, also known as Camp Gallistella on the south shore of Lake ... |
| Date: | 07 19 1947 |
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| Description: | Pierre Slightam, age 13, left, and his brother, Warren, age 11, 427 West Wilson Street, are putting the finishing touches on their Soap Box Derby racers. T... |
| Date: | 07 22 1947 |
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| Description: | Six boys enjoying their grass covered lean-to in front of a campfire at YMCA Camp Wakanda. L to R in the foreground are: John Omernik, John Stephens, John ... |
| Date: | 12 06 1947 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with Patty Lou Radder (left) and Ricky Radder posing in front of a snowman they built in their front yard at 3125 University Avenue after a sn... |
| Date: | 12 06 1947 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with Steven (left) and David Hanson playing in the snow near their house at 1217 Vilas Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin, after a recent snowfall. |
| Date: | 12 06 1947 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with Betty Ann and Arthur G. Field on a sled in the snow with their mother Elizabeth Field kneeling next to them near a stone wall. The family... |
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