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Filter: Year of 1900-1999
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Children standing in a schoolyard playing baseball. Two buildings are in the far background. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | A group of children posing on and beneath a wooden playground slide. There is a barn in the background. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of adults supervising children using swings, a see-saw, a slide, and other playground equipment at Parker Street playground. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A girl from Sunnyside School balancing on one leg outdoors. She is wearing a dress and has a large bow in her hair. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Boys from Sunnyside School playing leapfrog on the lawn outside a building. Other children are sitting near a screen door in the background. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View across years towards a boy looking out the window of a cab of a toy locomotive as he is moving along a set of wooden tracks. Behind him is the wall of... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Tootsie, the Middleton family dog, stands with front paws resting on Forest's hip. Forest holds a switch in his right hand and, most likely, a treat in his... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Children joining hands while playing in an alleyway between brick buildings in an area of tenement housing. A line of laundry suspended over the alley is h... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | A large slide at Pease's Resort on the shore of the Upper Eau Claire Lake. Children are in the water near stairs that go up the hill. |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | View from across street of schoolchildren standing and playing on the sidewalk outside the Benton High School. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | This brochure intended for tourists and shows resorts, lakes and railroads in northwestern Wisconsin and part of Michigan’s upper peninsula. Two inset maps... |
| Date: | 07 16 1949 |
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| Description: | Advertising proof for International trucks, featuring a color illustration of a couple of boys waving at a passing semi-truck (tractor-trailer). Includes t... |
| Date: | 02 19 1978 |
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| Description: | "Sledding on the Brewery Hill. (Top to bottom) Julie Wiedmeyer, 10, Tammy Konrath, 9, and Vicky Konrath, 7." |
| Date: | 02 19 1978 |
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| Description: | "Having fun on the Brewery Hill. Vicky Konrath and Julie Wiedmeyer." |
| Date: | 02 12 1978 |
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| Description: | "With the approach of Valentine's Day, the camera looks through the decorated windows of the Bob Bernhard home. Brenda watches her brother, Scott, playing ... |
| 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: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Includes images of Flambeau River State Forest and a description of, canoeing and recreational activities in, and general park and forest information about... |
| Date: | 1971 |
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| Description: | "Kay Widmer pulls her toboggan up the hill that is on the southwest edge of the village." |
| 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. |
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