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Vilas Park Carousel

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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.
Photograph

Divine Savior United Methodist Church

Date: 03 05 1972
Description: Exterior view of Divine Saviour United Methodist Church at 6402 Hammersley Road, featuring colored glass windows with redwood paneling.
Photograph

Madison Soap Box Derby

Date: 07 19 1947
Description: Pierre Slightam, age 13, left, and his brother, Warren, age 11, 427 West Wilson Street, are putting the finishing touches on their Soap Box Derby racers. T...
Photograph

600 Block South Brearly Street and Walker Mansion

Date: 1918
Description: Children in the backyard of the Walker mansion. Buildings along the west side of the 600 block of South Brearly Street including Monona Apartments can be ...
Photograph

House at 1513 Hooker Avenue

Date: 1939
Description: Exterior view of house at 1513 Hooker Avenue. Two children are playing in the driveway. The garage door is open and an automobile is parked inside. The hou...
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House at 1717 Fremont Avenue

Date: 1947
Description: View across street towards the house at 1717 Fremont Avenue. Two small children are riding tricycles in front of the house.
Photograph

House at 1422 Sherman Avenue

Date: 1929
Description: Exterior of the house at 1422 Sherman Avenue, built by Willard Droster, in the Sherman Park neighborhood. Children are playing on the left.
Photograph

Party In Honor of Edward Deutschkron's Bar Mitzvah

Date: 05 1959
Description: Party in honor of Edward (son of Eva Lauffer Deutschkron), Deutschkron's Bar Mitzvah, at Deutschkron's. Children, from left: Debbie Stern (cousin), Bruce W...
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Shorewood Hills Play School

Date: 06 24 1952
Description: Dick Miyagawa, recreation director and supervisor of the summer Shorewood Hills Play School, gives pointers on playing a ukelele to Lucina Meloy, left, and...
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Forest with Tootsie

Date: 1900
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...
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Griggs Album: Girls Playing "London Bridge"

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Description: Four groups of girls in threes playing the game "London Bridge Is Falling Down," on the boulevard in front of a house. This image is part of an album kept ...
Photograph

Neighborhood House Album: Children Playing Circle Game

Date: 1929
Description: Hand-colored image from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with a group of children and two women playing a circle game outdoors.
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Scrapbook: Play School Outing

Date: 06 1938
Description: Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with images of a spring outing taken by the Bluebirds? and the Orioles children's groups. Children are pl...
Photograph

UW-Madison Library Mall Fountain

Date: 07 09 1958
Description: James, the three-year-old son of Philip and Mrs. Staudenraus, playing with a sprinkling can in the new University of Wisconsin library mall fountain.
Photograph

Children Playing in a Hammock

Date: 07 20 1958
Description: Laurie Stein, 5 year old daughter of photographer Edwin Stein, playing in a double hammock with her friend Sara.
Photograph

Children Playing in Autumn Leaves

Date: 10 21 1960
Description: Five year-old Paula Scharch sitting in a pile of leaves.
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Children Playing in Autumn Leaves

Date: 10 23 1960
Description: Five year-old Paula Scharch, and her brother Stanley, age three, tossing leaves.
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Children Playing in Autumn Leaves

Date: 10 21 1960
Description: From left to right, smiling Gary Winner, Paula Schmarch and Stanley Schmarch, sitting in a pile of leaves.

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