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| Date: | 10 09 1957 |
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| Description: | Virginia Gibson works with a child with Down's Syndrome at the nursery school of the Madison Area Council on Retardation (sic) at First Congregation... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with children crossing the street in front of the settlement house, gathering Easter eggs in the park, po... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Image from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with three girls standing and sitting at a table with a play telephone, a kitchen beater, and play dishe... |
| Date: | 07 09 1958 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 05 21 1959 |
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| Description: | Mary Gandt sits with her young charge, Dana Rosenthal, in the sandbox. Mary is babysitting to earn money for the Girl Scout trip to a Round-Up in Colorado. |
| Date: | 10 29 1959 |
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| Description: | Susan Thomsen smiling from high atop a seesaw on a warm October day while playing at Yahara Place Park near her home at 502 Dunning Street. Houses in the b... |
| Date: | 08 16 1960 |
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| Description: | Madison Theater Guild's Youth Summer Theater presents the adult show Tolstoy's "The First Distiller" in the Washington School auditorium. The play is direc... |
| Date: | 08 16 1960 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Helen Zawacki, director of the Madison Theater Guild's Youth Summer Theater production of Tolstoy's "The First Distiller." The play is presented at th... |
| Date: | 10 04 1960 |
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| Description: | Debbie Wright and Scott Hubbel are shown pretending to be mama and papa doing dishes at Luther Memorial Church's nursery school for children ages 3 and 4. |
| Date: | 10 04 1960 |
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| Description: | Irene Larsen, director of the Luther Memorial Church Nursery School, is shown with two of the children, Lynnea Ekestrom and Craig Lang. |
| Date: | 11 1953 |
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| Description: | At Mrs. V.B. Roberts' nursery school, children play games in celebration of Thanksgiving Day. Twins Gretchen and Christine Wilkie are pretending to be turk... |
| Date: | 03 25 1961 |
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| Description: | Frank Genna has a knuckles-down marbles or mibs game with friends in his yard. |
| Date: | 08 26 1961 |
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| Description: | Peter Schram, 10, sitting on a home-made race car while being pushed by Bruce Mills, 11. The boys built the racer from boards and wheels from an old coaste... |
| Date: | 10 1961 |
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| Description: | The Dane County Guidance Center is one of 29 United Givers agencies. A team of psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers serves Madison and Dane Coun... |
| Date: | 10 1961 |
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| Description: | Madison Neighborhood Centers is one of 29 United Givers agencies. At three centers (Atwood Community Center, the Neighborhood House and South Madison Neigh... |
| Date: | 10 1961 |
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| Description: | The boys' program at the Madison YMCA is supported by the United Givers. Here a boy is jumping on the trampoline. |
| Date: | 07 08 1964 |
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| Description: | Madison's eastside youngsters participating in a lantern parade held at Tenney Park. The lanterns were constructed as part of the city recreation departmen... |
| Date: | 1982 |
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| Description: | A group of four young boys are sitting and standing around a hole dug into the sand and filled with water. One boy is placing the muddy sand onto the head ... |
| Date: | 1982 |
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| Description: | Three young boys playing in a small hole dug into the sand and filled with water. The boy's bodies and swimsuits are covered in muddy sand. |
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| Description: | Two children playing with bubbles. A young boy sitting on the porch is making bubbles with a bubble gun, while a young girl on the sidewalk in the foregrou... |
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