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| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Children playing in a sand box, or "sand garden" at the Woodlawn School garden. American flags are planted in the sand and a teacher or older child is hold... |
| Date: | 09 20 1988 |
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| Description: | A father gives his young son archery pointers in Kletzsch Park while his daughter looks on. |
| Date: | 07 13 1989 |
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| Description: | A boy stretches to catch a water-filled balloon. |
| 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: | 02 11 1955 |
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| Description: | A winter scene with boys playing basketball in the snow, with temperatures around 10 below zero. |
| Date: | 10 14 1961 |
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| Description: | Girls wearing head scarves form their fingers to make "binoculars" on a sunny autumn day. |
| Date: | 08 07 1989 |
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| Description: | Jay Taylor, age 12, demonstrates his skill on stilts with a walk down E. Nock Street. |
| Date: | 03 28 1980 |
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| Description: | A frisbee is backlit by the sun as a boy reaches out to catch it. |
| Date: | 05 07 1935 |
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| Description: | Four men are looking on during installation of a billboard designed by Hinkson Advertising Agency, at the corner of S. Park Street and Olin Avenue. The sig... |
| Date: | 07 29 1934 |
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| Description: | Children in costume as king, queen and attendants at the Kiddie Camp Fair. |
| Date: | 07 17 1933 |
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| Description: | A large group of children plays in a sandbox at The Capital Times Kiddie Camp. |
| 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: | 07 26 1930 |
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| Description: | Ed Sullivan, age 11, 1119 W. Dayton Street, and Gordon Todd, 118 N. Charter Street, sitting in a tree in the 1100 block of W. Dayton Street, pursuing the t... |
| Date: | 07 11 1930 |
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| Description: | Paul Vilbrandt, age 10, standing by a tree and ladder at the 1200 block of West Dayton Street, hoping to break the tree sitting record of Jimmie Clemons of... |
| Date: | 06 09 1988 |
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| Description: | Twins from the Sting of Wauwatosa warm up for Milwaukee Kickers League soccer tournament. They are wearing matching t-shirts and are spiking two soccer bal... |
| Date: | 01 02 1988 |
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| Description: | Bundled-up boys ride their tubes down an icy slope in Mee-Kwon Park. |
| Date: | 06 20 1963 |
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| Description: | Helmeted boy swings a bat at city of Brown Deer's recreation department baseball camp. |
| Date: | 12 12 1963 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with Swanson School youngsters playing in the first heavy snow of the season. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | School children standing ready to begin a May-pole dance. |
| 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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