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| Description: | Five children play in the yard while a young woman watches from the doorway. A boy hangs from a cross bar; a boy rides a rocking horse; two girls sit on a ... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Boys practicing for winter basketball games on the farm of Marcus Johnson. |
| Date: | 09 12 1971 |
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| Description: | Children fashioned their seesaw using a board, and a barricade with a sign that reads: "Road Closed" that they found in an empty lot. |
| 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. |
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| Description: | Men play horseshoes on the unpaved street outside of the Merchants Inn. |
| Date: | 08 30 1938 |
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| Description: | Children line up at the entrance to the Superior Bookmobile trailer. Other children ride bicycles and play in a playground in the background. The original... |
| Date: | 08 30 1938 |
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| Description: | A group of children lines up outside the entrance to the Superior Bookmobile (an International truck), parked in a playground area. Other children holding ... |
| Date: | 08 30 1938 |
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| Description: | Three girls stand at the entrance of the Superior Bookmobile (an International truck) holding books. A child playing tennis is in the background. The origi... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | View down street with children playing in the background. Along the street is a row of businesses and storefronts. Advertisements for Chesterfield cigarett... |
| 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: | 1928 |
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| Description: | View down street. On the left is the McCann. Undertaking building and grocery store. Two children play on a wagon on the sidewalk. Five people are gathered... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | View from pier of a Native American man wearing a headdress kneeling on a tourist boat called "Black Hawk" docked under a bridge in the Wisconsin River. He... |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view of cabins by a lake. In the foreground is a birch sign with antlers that reads: "Tonto." |
| Date: | 09 2000 |
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| Description: | Wagon Train organized by Everett Schultz family living on Pole Road. |
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| Description: | Page from Sue Ann Hackett Scrapbook displaying two photographs. The top is a group portrait of the counselors who worked at Joy Camps in the summer of 1949... |
| Date: | 08 2013 |
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| Description: | View down pier towards yacht named "Louise" tied up to a post. The yacht is used to take tourists around the lake. |
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| Description: | View of a stage displaying the door prizes for a Ducks Unlimited event. Four members, all men, of Ducks Unlimited are standing on the left and right of the... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of women, men, and children standing in front of a display of freshly-picked blackberries. Dr. James McClure (left) and Miss Smith (right) a... |
| Date: | 05 18 1959 |
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| Description: | As part of the "Outdoor Living Day" event, sponsored by the Madison Chamber of Commerce, model Marlyn Sachtjen reclines on an inflated beach mattress in th... |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | Two bicyclists on 10-speeds. They are wearing matching jackets and pants, with knit caps. The bikes have front bags on the handle bars. Note the price of g... |
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