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| Date: | 05 1928 |
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| Description: | Boy idling away time with a rifle under a tree on the grounds of a rural school. |
| Date: | 05 1928 |
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| Description: | Two young girls playing on a tree swing on the grounds of Viall School. |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Boys practicing for winter basketball games on the farm of Marcus Johnson. |
| 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: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Laurie, Muriel, and James Peterson, children of the photographer, sledding near the family home. Handwritten on reverse, "Laurie, Muriel, James Peterson, c... |
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| Description: | Three small children with a wagon drawn by a dog. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Children working and playing in a community garden at 38th and St. Louis streets. |
| Date: | 07 1923 |
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| Description: | Children at play in a dirt alley on Chicago's west side. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | School friends Ethel and Eleanor fence-sit on a summer day. |
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| Description: | View from a stone bridge towards Vilas Park, with children riding the carousel (merry-go-round) and a kiddie train adjacent to the lagoon. |
| 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: | 1919 |
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| Description: | School children standing ready to begin a May-pole dance. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Jennie and Edgar Krueger (twins on right) and Effie Goetsch (Carr) playing with toys outdoors. Effie was the daughter of Ernest Samuel Goetsch and Anna Sch... |
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| Description: | Three children playing under a fallen tree outside of Hillside Home School, an early progressive school operated by Ellen and Jane Lloyd Jones, aunts of Fr... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Large brick two-story school house with small tower and three chimneys. A group of students are in front of the building and two boys are in a tree. |
| 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. |
| 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 ... |
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| Description: | Girl posed sitting in a field playing with four kittens. |
| Date: | 07 10 1948 |
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| Description: | Playing in the sandbox at Olbrich Park are Mary Lou Whitney, Ann Spilde, Patsy White, year-old Noreen Kay Morehouse and some playmates. |
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