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| Description: | A group of children and adults at a wading pool in a park. |
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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: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Group of children playing with a makeshift diving board at Brittingham Bay swimming hole. |
| 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 29 1934 |
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| Description: | Children in costume as king, queen and attendants at the Kiddie Camp Fair. |
| 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 23 1983 |
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| Description: | Aimee Weiss(left), 10, and Darby Cusick, 11, both of Elm Grove, take a spin Thursday on one of the rides at Wirth Park. |
| Date: | 07 20 1944 |
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| Description: | Children roller skating on the Olbrich playground tennis court as part of city Recreation Department summer activities. |
| Date: | 07 20 1944 |
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| Description: | Boys and girls roller skating on the Olbrich playground tennis courts on a summer evening. Music is furnished by a jukebox. |
| Date: | 05 28 1945 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Joseph P. O'Brien, 1627 Jefferson Street, with her two daughters, playing in Vilas Park. Pictured left to right: Sharon Anne 2 1/2, and Mary Kay 1, wh... |
| 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: | 12 23 1947 |
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| Description: | Three teenagers posing on the steps of the toboggan slide at Hoyt Park. Ascending the steps are Al Gay, Mary Homann, and Ruth Ann Gay. Two young boys are s... |
| Date: | 07 10 1948 |
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| Description: | Playing on the swings at Wingra Park are James Bruce swinging Anne Meyers, Mike Cantwell swinging Peggy Aspinwall, and James Clark swinging Rene Burkhalter... |
| Date: | 07 10 1948 |
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| Description: | Playing in the sandbox at Olbrich Park are Mary Lou Whitney, Ann Spilde, Patsy White, year-old Noreen Kay Morehouse and some playmates. |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Three boys playing in the water near the shoreline with their pants rolled above their knees. A fourth boy is squatting on the grassy shore, poking one of ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View looking down hill towards two ladies sitting on a park bench. They are looking down the hill which is surrounded by trees, watching children playing n... |
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| Description: | Large group of children wading in the water in a small pool. The girls are holding up the edges of their skirts, and the boys are pulling up their pants. A... |
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| Description: | A group of four boys in a wooded area. Two boys are standing on a small bridge, and the other two are walking along a small creek. |
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| Description: | Children playing on swing set in front of an automobile. A man is seated on a picnic table nearby. |
| Date: | 07 04 1949 |
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| Description: | Six children playing in a sand box at Vilas Park. |
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