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| Description: | A group of children and adults at a wading pool in a park. |
| Date: | 03 1909 |
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| Description: | Sandlot baseball game in front of a house and several outbuildings, all in dilapidated condition. |
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| Description: | Six young girls playing with dolls on a porch. |
| Date: | 08 30 1953 |
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| Description: | View from the beach of people swimming, playing in the sand, and sunbathing. |
| Date: | 04 06 1985 |
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| Description: | Young men performing skateboard handstands on downtown sidewalks. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Two young girls with bows in their hair jump rope as a boy watches. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with Muriel and Laurie Peterson, the photographer's children, reflecting on the snow conditions near their home. Laurie holds the rope of a sl... |
| Date: | 07 1923 |
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| Description: | Children at play in a dirt alley on Chicago's west side. |
| Date: | 06 26 1986 |
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| Description: | Kids make a "train," with the bicyclist in the front pulling three girls on roller skates along a sidewalk. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Three young children playing with a wagon in a squalid alley between rows of impoverished houses. Trash and rubble litter the alley. |
| Date: | 08 18 1963 |
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| Description: | Old houses in a residential neighborhood with women and children at play. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Group of children playing with a makeshift diving board at Brittingham Bay swimming hole. |
| 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: | 09 05 1931 |
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| Description: | Two school children are playing with a girl sitting on a tricycle while walking to school. |
| Date: | 08 27 1931 |
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| Description: | Virginia Gillette demonstrates how residents in the 400 block of Virginia Terrace are combating traffic dangers by spanking. Dicky Dupois is over her knee,... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | A little girl rides a tricycle in front of the Spot Lunch diner, a former streetcar. The Spot Lunch was located at 640 Williamson Street and owned by John ... |
| Date: | 06 28 1951 |
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| Description: | Children playing outside the nursery school classroom at the First Unitarian Society meeting house while teachers are watching. The building was designed b... |
| Date: | 06 28 1951 |
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| Description: | Children playing outside the nursery school classroom at the First Unitarian Society Meeting House. The building was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. |
| Date: | 07 11 1955 |
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| Description: | Three children, Jackie LeTourneau, Debra Ranes, and Ester Thayer, playing in the tot lot at the Neighborhood House, 768 West Washington Avenue. |
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