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| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | James Peterson, son of the photographer, playing the harmonica. He is sitting against a stump, with trees in the distance. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | School children standing ready to begin a May-pole dance. |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | A one room Greek Revival schoolhouse with bell tower. A boy is in front, wearing a broad-brimmed straw hat and climbing a tree. |
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| Description: | Children outdoors for recess at the Lower Cut Meat Creek School, part of the Rosebud Agency. |
| Date: | 03 05 1972 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of Divine Saviour United Methodist Church at 6402 Hammersley Road, featuring colored glass windows with redwood paneling. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Three smiling children wearing white clothing are sitting atop a gigantic, dark squash. Text in top left corner reads: "Beaver Dam, Wis." Fence lines back ... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Two girls wearing white dresses ride a pig, sitting back-to-back. One girl holds the pig's tail and the other holds its ears. A boy pokes the pig's haunch ... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Three young boys gather around a wheelbarrow filled with giant peaches. One of the boys is holding a peach that has been broken open, exposing its pit. Two... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Photographic mock-up for an Alfred Stanley Johnson photomontage postcard entitled "Shooting the Shoots." A small girl is sliding down a wooden plank, whic... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Photomontage of children playing on giant carrots. Two girls are sliding down a giant carrot while a third is climbing up the steps to get to the top of th... |
| Date: | 10 06 1947 |
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| Description: | Children engaged in an art project at the Neighborhood House, 768 West Washington Avenue across from Brittingham Park. Pictured left to right are: Marion D... |
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| Description: | Three children sitting on a porch singing together and playing pattycake. |
| Date: | 07 10 1948 |
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| Description: | Outdoors at Lapham School, Al Johnson, Carolyn Mitchell, Noel McGuigan, and Joan Adler are singing to the ukelele accompaniment of Tom Adler, standing, and... |
| Date: | 07 10 1948 |
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| Description: | Janet Kuhlman, Cherlyn Litchfield, and Larry Litchfield are modeling clay inside Marquette School. |
| Date: | 03 31 1949 |
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| Description: | Jimmy Fladen, Christine Mercer, and Paul Vincent manipulate Punch and Judy marionettes in the orthopedic department at Washington School, 545 West Dayton S... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Three boys painting with watercolors at a folding table. They appear to be on a porch. |
| 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 ... |
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| Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Bertha Gesell washing doll clothes in a wooden tub. Clothes are on a clothesline behind her. Her doll sit... |
| Date: | 06 24 1952 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Two children color together in a coloring book during Freedom Summer. |
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