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| Date: | 08 30 1953 |
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| Description: | View from the beach of people swimming, playing in the sand, and sunbathing. |
| Date: | 06 28 1951 |
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| Description: | Children playing outside the nursery school classroom at the First Unitarian Society Meeting House. The building was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. |
| Date: | 06 28 1951 |
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| Description: | Children sitting on the floor and working on art projects at tables in the nursery school at the First Unitarian Society Meeting House. The building was de... |
| Date: | 07 11 1955 |
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| Description: | Three children, Jackie LeTourneau, Debra Ranes, and Ester Thayer, playing in the tot lot at the Neighborhood House, 768 West Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 11 18 1955 |
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| Description: | Patricia Mathisen (Mrs. George), member of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority alumnae group, sponsor of the Nursery School for Slow Learners at the First Congregat... |
| Date: | 11 18 1955 |
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| Description: | Dorcas Nichles (Mrs. Robert J., Jr.), member of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority alumnae group who sponsored the Nursery School for Slow Learners at the First Co... |
| Date: | 05 1959 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 07 10 1950 |
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| Description: | Girls and boys participate in a lively croquet game at the Westmorland park playground. They are, from left to right: Jay Voss, Jimmy Leahy, Jimmie Montgo... |
| Date: | 06 28 1950 |
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| Description: | Frances Niles hands out a ball to three boys at the Milton-Charter park playgound. The boys are, left to right: Ross Parisi, Don Brashi, and Marvin Bloom. |
| Date: | 07 10 1950 |
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| Description: | Children play on the heavy duty swing at Sunset Park playground. A summer recreation program at the city's parks is supervised by the city's board of educa... |
| Date: | 07 10 1950 |
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| Description: | Children play a game of touchball at the Nakoma school playground, one of the many activities offered at the city's playgrounds by the board of education r... |
| Date: | 07 10 1950 |
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| Description: | Three boys playing a game of "washers" at the Olbrich park playground, one of the thirty parks included in the summer playground program sponsored by the B... |
| Date: | 07 06 1950 |
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| Description: | Six children engage in folk dancing at Randall School playground on Regent Street, while one bystander observes from the background. Pictured dancing from ... |
| Date: | 07 12 1950 |
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| Description: | Skipper Soderstrom of the Gerhardt Pharmacy baseball team beats out a bunt for a hit and makes it to first base during a game between his team and the Bord... |
| Date: | 07 28 1950 |
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| Description: | Pictured left to right are Jerry Licari, Henry Cuccia, and Tommy McCarthy, who are building a birdhouse at the Longfellow playground. At far right is Henr... |
| Date: | 07 28 1950 |
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| Description: | Boys play baseball at the Franklin School playground. The activity is part of the summer program sponsored by the board of education recreational division ... |
| Date: | 07 28 1950 |
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| Description: | Six children are shown playing and building sand castles in a sand box at Penn Park. Left to right, they are Dulcie Snell, Tommy Smith, Joe Valenza, Tony ... |
| Date: | 08 16 1950 |
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| Description: | A group of kids play a paper game "Air Defense" with two playground directors at a table in Vilas Park. Sitting around the table, from left, are: Nancy Bri... |
| Date: | 08 16 1950 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Irene M. Borman, playground director at the Milton-Charter park for twelve years, sitting at a sand box with youngsters Joane Bruno, Kay Kerwin, and T... |
| Date: | 10 30 1950 |
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| Description: | Nakoma School kindergarten children standing on the playground while playing cowboys and Indians. Three boys are wearing Indian headdresses. |
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