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| Date: | 05 28 1955 |
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| Description: | The Riesen family, John, Jeanne, Linda and Jon, playing in their home. |
| Date: | 04 09 1956 |
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| Description: | Male and female teenagers participate together jumping rope. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Group of children playing with a makeshift diving board at Brittingham Bay swimming hole. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with Mark Mueller, the photographer's son standing ankle deep in snow with a dog, and smiling as the snow continues to fall. The family was sl... |
| Date: | 05 20 1924 |
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| Description: | Country school children playing "Baby in the Hole." There is a hand-pump in the background under trees. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Mother and her four children playing on the steps of a house. The children are playing with blocks, dolls and a stuffed animal. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Children playing in a sand box, or "sand garden" at the Woodlawn School garden. American flags are planted in the sand and a teacher or older child is hold... |
| Date: | 12 28 1962 |
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| Description: | Jean Meyer plays with the sucker she got at a mother-daugher Christmas holiday tea. |
| Date: | 09 12 1971 |
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| Description: | Children fashioned their seesaw using a board, and a barricade with a sign that reads: "Road Closed" that they found in an empty lot. |
| Date: | 02 11 1955 |
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| Description: | A winter scene with boys playing basketball in the snow, with temperatures around 10 below zero. |
| Date: | 10 14 1961 |
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| Description: | Girls wearing head scarves form their fingers to make "binoculars" on a sunny autumn day. |
| Date: | 03 28 1980 |
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| Description: | A frisbee is backlit by the sun as a boy reaches out to catch it. |
| Date: | 01 24 1935 |
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| Description: | Washington School kindergarten class, 217 N. Broom Street, with children playing in a boat built of blocks. |
| Date: | 07 29 1934 |
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| Description: | Children in costume as king, queen and attendants at the Kiddie Camp Fair. |
| Date: | 07 17 1933 |
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| Description: | A large group of children plays in a sandbox at The Capital Times Kiddie Camp. |
| Date: | 01 11 1933 |
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| Description: | Draper kindergarten room with children surrounding a "fire engine" they created. |
| Date: | 11 10 1932 |
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| Description: | Edgewood kindergarten country store setup. Sign says: "Kindergarten Kun(tree) Store" (rebus), with group portrait of eleven children. |
| Date: | 10 27 1932 |
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| Description: | Eight children and one adult at play around a sandbox at Dr. Arnold S. and Lora Z. Jackson home, 1901 Adams Street. Children are Ruth Davis at the left, El... |
| Date: | 10 26 1932 |
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| Description: | Eight children in play group at the Roy H. and Marjorie Deakman home, 7 Bayside Drive, Maple Bluff. The children are Dorothy Montague, in the chair at the ... |
| Date: | 03 24 1932 |
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| Description: | View of the basement playroom at Chester and Louise Snell's home, 822 Miami Pass. The three children are playing with Snell's miniature circus, rocking hor... |
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