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| 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: | 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: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Children standing on barrels in front of Droster Grocery and Filling Station at 1438 Sherman Avenue, run by Red Whitney. The children are Whitney's nieces ... |
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| Description: | A group of boys gathered around a telephone pole on a street corner, captioned: "Inquisitiveness: Getting an Electric Shock." A boy on the left has some ki... |
| Date: | 08 28 1898 |
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| Description: | Syl playing with toy boats at a small pond at Reservoir Park. Other children and adults are around the pond which is on a hill. In the background below the... |
| Date: | 08 28 1898 |
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| Description: | Syl playing with other children at reservoir park near a small waterfall. Toy boats are in the pond. |
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| Description: | The children of Trong and Hong Nguyen pose on a playground structure shaped to look like the McDonald's character The Grimace. From left to right in... |
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| Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Bertha Gesell washing doll clothes in a wooden tub. Clothes are on a clothesline behind her. Her doll sit... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | A large slide at Pease's Resort on the shore of the Upper Eau Claire Lake. Children are in the water near stairs that go up the hill. |
| Date: | 07 16 1949 |
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| Description: | Advertising proof for International trucks, featuring a color illustration of a couple of boys waving at a passing semi-truck (tractor-trailer). Includes t... |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | A child (Mary Clayton) is playing on a plastic trike with a large front wheel in a yard. She is wearing a red dress and is standing over the seat of the tr... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | View down street. On the left is the McCann. Undertaking building and grocery store. Two children play on a wagon on the sidewalk. Five people are gathered... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A view of a street in the central business district. A restaurant with a group of men in front on the left. Three children with a wagon on the right. A hou... |
| Date: | 07 1984 |
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| Description: | Water barrel fight: two groups with dueling hoses suspend a barrel in air. Children and adults look on with excitment. |
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