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| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A boy is driving two turkeys yoked together that are pulling his small wagon loaded with vegetables. Painted on the side of the wagon: "Birdsell, South Ben... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | School friends Ethel and Eleanor fence-sit on a summer day. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Boys demonstrate acrobatic skills on the grounds of their summer camp. |
| Date: | 08 18 1963 |
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| Description: | Old houses in a residential neighborhood with women and children at play. |
| Date: | 04 09 1956 |
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| Description: | Male and female teenagers participate together jumping rope. |
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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: | 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... |
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| Description: | Children and a few adults (possibly teachers) hold hands in a circle while other children stand by or swing under a tree in a rural setting. Horse-drawn ca... |
| 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: | 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: | 07 29 1934 |
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| Description: | Children in costume as king, queen and attendants at the Kiddie Camp Fair. |
| 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: | 07 26 1930 |
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| Description: | Ed Sullivan, age 11, 1119 W. Dayton Street, and Gordon Todd, 118 N. Charter Street, sitting in a tree in the 1100 block of W. Dayton Street, pursuing the t... |
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