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| 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: | 05 15 1927 |
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| Description: | A young boy and girl play with International Harvester toys in front of a fireplace and feather Christmas tree. The toys include a truck, tractor, thresher... |
| Date: | 05 1959 |
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| Description: | Party in honor of Edward (son of Eva Lauffer Deutschkron), Deutschkron's Bar Mitzvah, at Deutschkron's. Children, from left: Debbie Stern (cousin), Bruce W... |
| Date: | 07 04 1902 |
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| Description: | Three boys holding fireworks stand near a tent or open-sided awning in a backyard near a house. |
| Date: | 07 04 1895 |
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| Description: | Fred Thwaites, Harry Turville, and Helen Turville celebrate the Fourth of July with American flags outdoors. There is a barn in the background. |
| 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: | 07 04 1901 |
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| Description: | Syl, Gordon and Harold playing with fireworks on a lawn. A hammock strung between two trees is visible in the background. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Large group of students and teachers gathered in a circle to watch young girls winding the maypole at an annual school festival in Belwood Park. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Group of girls holding fabricated flowers around a maypole at an annual school festival in Belwood Park. A large group of fellow students and teachers look... |
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| Description: | Children play in Forest Park at the Chautauqua Grounds, an institution founded in 1874. Residences can be seen beyond the playground at right. Caption read... |
| Date: | 02 14 1978 |
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| Description: | "Valentine's Day party in Theresa Public School gymnasium." |
| Date: | 02 12 1978 |
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| Description: | "With the approach of Valentine's Day, the camera looks through the decorated windows of the Bob Bernhard home. Brenda watches her brother, Scott, playing ... |
| 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: | 11 1953 |
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| Description: | At Mrs. V.B. Roberts' nursery school, children play games in celebration of Thanksgiving Day. Twins Gretchen and Christine Wilkie are pretending to be turk... |
| Date: | 12 1915 |
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| Description: | Laurie and Muriel playing with an erector set, while James is sitting on the end of the table facing the decorated Christmas tree. More toys are on the flo... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Laurie and Muriel Peterson having a tea party. In addition to tea, there are plates of pastries. Muriel is sitting in a rocking chair and Laurie is perched... |
| Date: | 12 1954 |
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| Description: | Jeff and Gregg Anderson playing on a drum set at the Wolff-Kubly-Hirsig store, Toyland. On the drum face is an image of a cowboy riding a bucking bronco. |
| Date: | 12 1954 |
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| Description: | Jeff and Gregg Anderson playing cowboys with plastic tommy guns at Toyland, the Wolff-Kubly-Hirsig store. |
| Date: | 12 1954 |
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| Description: | Wearing helmets, Jeff and Gregg Anderson playing with a football in the Wolff-Kubly-Hirsig store, Toyland. They are in an aisle displaying rocking chairs, ... |
| Date: | 04 16 1957 |
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| Description: | Madison Women's Club presents an original play "Man and His God" to raise money for scholarships. Appearing as Adam and Eve (left) are Richard Aukerma of 6... |
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