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| Date: | 02 23 1954 |
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| Description: | Shelly Felt playing a vinyl recording on a portable record player. A holder with records is standing next to the record player. |
| Date: | 02 23 1954 |
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| Description: | Levi Wood painting at an easel. His sleeves are rolled up and he is wearing a smock. In the background is a wall of coats hanging from hooks, and another b... |
| Date: | 07 28 1954 |
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| Description: | Tommy Eithum (of 754 W. Washington Avenue) is shown playing on a swing at Brittingham Park. |
| Date: | 07 28 1954 |
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| Description: | Mary Jane Caruso (of 780 Gwinnett Court) is shown playing on a swing at Brittingham Park. |
| Date: | 12 1954 |
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| Description: | Jeff and Gregg Anderson playing on a drum set at the Wolff-Kubly-Hirsig store, Toyland. On the drum face is an image of a cowboy riding a bucking bronco. |
| Date: | 12 1954 |
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| Description: | Jeff and Gregg Anderson playing cowboys with plastic tommy guns at Toyland, the Wolff-Kubly-Hirsig store. |
| Date: | 12 1954 |
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| Description: | Wearing helmets, Jeff and Gregg Anderson playing with a football in the Wolff-Kubly-Hirsig store, Toyland. They are in an aisle displaying rocking chairs, ... |
| Date: | 04 1955 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin artist-in-residence, Aaron Bohrod, boxing with his son, Neil (8-years-old), at his home located at 715 East Gorham Street. |
| Date: | 05 15 1957 |
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| Description: | Children frolicking in rain water which collected in the Milwaukee Railroad underpass on North Park Street during Tuesday afternoon's heavy downpour. There... |
| Date: | 08 16 1957 |
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| Description: | Playground director, Phil Gottschalk, dressed as a cowboy, showing off his guns to young costumed onlookers at the recent Truax Field playground party. |
| Date: | 08 16 1957 |
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| Description: | Mike McKenna, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred McKenna, came to the party as Robin Hood. Prizes were awarded for the best costumes. |
| Date: | 08 16 1957 |
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| Description: | Santa Claus and some gypsies put in an appearance at the Truax Field Playground Costume Party. Santa was John Terry. |
| Date: | 08 16 1957 |
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| Description: | Mickey Toseff, 10, gives his brother Jeff, 3, a piggy-back ride at the Truax Field Playground Costume Party. |
| Date: | 01 17 1958 |
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| Description: | A group of five happy children going down the hill on a wooden toboggan at Olbrich Park. The hill is a man-made slide, edged with small pine trees. |
| Date: | 01 17 1958 |
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| Description: | A girl is beaming in anticipation while sitting at the front of a wooden toboggan at the top of a steep slide at Olbrich Park. Another child is behind her,... |
| Date: | 01 17 1958 |
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| Description: | Children dressed in heavy winter clothing, on a wooden toboggan at the bottom of a steep slide erected at Olbrich Park. |
| Date: | 01 17 1958 |
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| Description: | Children going downhill on a toboggan at Olbrich Park don't seem to mind if scarves are flying as they squeal, scream and shout. The toboggan is made of wo... |
| Date: | 03 11 1958 |
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| Description: | Benjie Henderson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Henderson (1907 Baird Street), attends the nursery school conducted by Miss Mary Lee Griggs two times a week at... |
| Date: | 03 11 1958 |
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| Description: | Bobby Abbott (background, 22 South Park Street) and Ernest Vance (4 South Francis Street) are playing catch in a gymnasium at the Neighborhood House at 768... |
| Date: | 03 25 1958 |
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| Description: | Children enjoy riding bikes at the U.W. Eagle Heights apartments. Barbara Bessae, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bessae, is shown giving a ride to Tommy Bi... |
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