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| Date: | 05 1928 |
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| Description: | Boy idling away time with a rifle under a tree on the grounds of a rural school. |
| Date: | 05 1928 |
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| Description: | Two young girls playing on a tree swing on the grounds of Viall School. |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Boys practicing for winter basketball games on the farm of Marcus Johnson. |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Young Robert Bailey, son of Mr. and Mrs. J.B. Bailey, holding up a baseball catcher's mitt. |
| Date: | 05 1928 |
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| Description: | Boys playing baseball on the grounds of Viall School. |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Boys line up on pier for swimming race at Camp Wakanda. |
| Date: | 07 1923 |
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| Description: | Children at play in a dirt alley on Chicago's west side. |
| 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... |
| Date: | 06 1927 |
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| Description: | Young boy and a toddler relaxing on a homemade tree swing made with an automobile seat. |
| 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... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Three young children playing with a wagon in a squalid alley between rows of impoverished houses. Trash and rubble litter the alley. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | School friends Ethel and Eleanor fence-sit on a summer day. |
| Date: | 05 20 1924 |
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| Description: | Country school children playing "Baby in the Hole." There is a hand-pump in the background under trees. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Mother and her four children playing on the steps of a house. The children are playing with blocks, dolls and a stuffed animal. |
| Date: | 06 11 1920 |
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| Description: | Young boy playing on a school swing. An automobile is parked nearby. |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | "Keep Cool with Coolidge in Wisconsin This Summer." A stamp presumably issued by the Outdoor Club of Wisconsin, to promote tourism in northern Wisconsin. I... |
| Date: | 01 11 1920 |
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| Description: | Crowd in Humboldt Park watching an ice skating race. Caption on glass plate reads: "Municipal Skating and Hockey Association, Inter City Meet". |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | A group of children stand in a row while a man in an International Harvester hat stands beside them. The man is holding a megaphone, and the children may b... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Two young boys sitting in a car wearing hats and sunglasses, play cops and robbers. One of the boys is thought to be Reginald Jackson, Jr., of Madison. App... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Three Taylor brothers pose in a line wearing bathing suits. Behind them is a cottage and a lake. The shadow of the photographer can be seen on the lawn. |
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