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| Date: | 1900 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 02 01 1954 |
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| Description: | Patricia Thieding, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Thieding of Loganville, tries to unlock a door in a play item designed by Jean Hardenbergh from Lake Z... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Women and children, who are members of the Monona Lake Assembly, relax beneath the trees at the Monona Lake Assembly grounds. There are tents and small bui... |
| Date: | 01 19 1956 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with Patty Kosinski, of 205 North Frances Street, posing on the 8-foot snowman she and her friends built. |
| Date: | 11 18 1955 |
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| Description: | Volunteer Kathleen Joachim looks after two unnamed children as they handle clay at a table. "As a philanthropic project, the Madison alumnae group of Kappa... |
| Date: | 03 11 1957 |
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| Description: | Roland and his daughter, Ronalee, age 4 1/2 years, work on a jigsaw puzzle. Roland and his wife Winnie, who were both seriously physically handicapped by c... |
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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 ... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Hand-colored image from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with a group of children and two women playing a circle game outdoors. |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House with images from the Play School: a group of children posing outdoors with buckets and a parasol, director... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | A boy with boxing gloves sitting and awaiting his turn in the ring, with a man and another boy crouching on either side of him and other children behind th... |
| Date: | 06 1938 |
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| 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... |
| 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: | 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. |
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