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| Date: | 08 11 1971 |
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| Description: | Children wearing large sacks up to their waists and racing each other. |
| Date: | 04 09 1956 |
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| Description: | Male and female teenagers participate together jumping rope. |
| 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: | 03 28 1980 |
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| Description: | A frisbee is backlit by the sun as a boy reaches out to catch it. |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | A group of children stand in a row while a man in an International Harvester hat stands beside them. The man is holding a megaphone, and the children may b... |
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| Description: | Three children sitting on a porch singing together and playing pattycake. |
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| Description: | View of individuals playing croquet outside of a cabin or hotel near Devil's Lake. In addition to those playing croquet, there are also individuals on the ... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A group of four girls runs through a yard toward the camera on the east side of Madison. |
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| Description: | Five young girls in skirts and dresses running. In the background, a crowd is watching the race. |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Cary and Everetta Bass with their Christmas tree. Cary holds a toy horn; Everetta holds a doll. |
| Date: | 02 28 1987 |
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| Description: | Stephanie Johnson (from left), 16, Chanell Biami, 15, and Letesa Evans, 16, played a childhood game Friday after seeing their little sisters playing a rope... |
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| Description: | A group of young boys gathered at the steps at the front of a house engaging in some kind of game, perhaps a game of chance. One boy is sitting above them ... |
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| Description: | A group of girls playing jacks on a city sidewalk. All the girls are wearing dresses, and two infants are present, one in a carriage and one in the lap of ... |
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| Description: | A group of boys play a game of cards while sitting on the ground between the steps of some houses. At least four boys wear caps, three are wearing pants wi... |
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| Description: | A group of boys "following their leader in search of adventure" in the street. The boys are barefoot and are wearing hats. In the background are a storefro... |
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| Description: | Several boys play a street game in a residential area, two blocks away from the deserted playground. |
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| Description: | Children having a stone fight in an unpaved alley or street in an underprivileged neighborhood. Some of the boys are holding trash can lids as protection, ... |
| 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: | 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: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Girls turning rope for a young boy to skip outside the Sunnyside School in Cook County. |
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