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| Description: | View from shoreline towards eight men trout fishing on the Brule River. |
| Date: | 03 1909 |
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| Description: | Sandlot baseball game in front of a house and several outbuildings, all in dilapidated condition. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Popular bathing beaches like this one on Lake Michigan offered relief from the heat as well as the opportunity to be seen in the latest fashions of the 191... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Boys line up on pier for swimming race at Camp Wakanda. |
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| Description: | Three small children with a wagon drawn by a dog. |
| Date: | 06 26 1986 |
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| Description: | Kids make a "train," with the bicyclist in the front pulling three girls on roller skates along a sidewalk. |
| Date: | 08 05 1927 |
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| Description: | Elephants drinking water from a wagon pulled by a McCormick-Deering industrial tractor outside a circus tent belonging to the Sells-Floto Circus. Circus wo... |
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| Description: | Three young boys and one girl at play near a house. Two boys are fixing the wheels on a tricycle and wagon. The girl, holding a doll, is looking on and the... |
| Date: | 09 1925 |
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| Description: | Kenneth Chipman riding a toy railroad engine on the farm of W.W. Chipman. Worked by footpower and with a working whistle bell, the toy engine follows track... |
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| Description: | Children riding the carousel (merry-go-round) at Henry Vilas Zoo (Vilas Park Zoo), donated by the citizens of the Madison area. A stone bridge is in the ba... |
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| Description: | View from a stone bridge towards Vilas Park, with children riding the carousel (merry-go-round) and a kiddie train adjacent to the lagoon. |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | Color advertising photograph of a family of four camping out with an International 1110 Custom pickup and Hy-Lander trailer home. |
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| Description: | Children and a few adults (possibly teachers) hold hands in a circle while other children stand by or swing under a tree in a rural setting. Horse-drawn ca... |
| Date: | 08 27 1931 |
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| Description: | Virginia Gillette demonstrates how residents in the 400 block of Virginia Terrace are combating traffic dangers by spanking. Dicky Dupois is over her knee,... |
| Date: | 06 11 1920 |
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| Description: | Young boy playing on a school swing. An automobile is parked nearby. |
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| Description: | Esther Bigalk Clark, Edgar Krueger (on tricycle), Jennie Krueger, and Josie Bigalk Wendorf playing with wagons, dolls and a toy wheelbarrow outdoors. |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | A little girl rides a tricycle in front of the Spot Lunch diner, a former streetcar. The Spot Lunch was located at 640 Williamson Street and owned by John ... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Three people are posing in the foreground, with a man with a long beard standing in front of two women sitting in a horse-drawn carriage. There is a barn a... |
| Date: | 07 11 1955 |
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| Description: | Three children, Jackie LeTourneau, Debra Ranes, and Ester Thayer, playing in the tot lot at the Neighborhood House, 768 West Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with children sledding down 400 block of North Pinckney Street, Madison, Wisconsin, including 10 boys on a coasting bobsled. Three houses are ... |
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