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Skateboard Handstands

Date: 04 06 1985
Description: Young men performing skateboard handstands on downtown sidewalks.
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Girls Jumping Rope

Date: 1900
Description: Two young girls with bows in their hair jump rope as a boy watches.
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Skate Boarders

Date: 08 16 1977
Description: Skateboarders take a break.
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Kids on Roller Skates

Date: 06 26 1986
Description: Kids make a "train," with the bicyclist in the front pulling three girls on roller skates along a sidewalk.
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Leaving Home for School

Date: 09 05 1931
Description: Two school children are playing with a girl sitting on a tricycle while walking to school.
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Spot Lunch Diner

Date: 1949
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 ...
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Children Sledding on North Pinckney Street

Date: 1915
Description: Winter scene with children sledding down 400 block of North Pinckney Street, Madison, Wisconsin, including 10 boys on a coasting bobsled. Three houses are ...
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University Faculty Houses in Eagle Heights

Date: 07 21 1949
Description: Mrs. H.E. Colbert supervises her daughter, Bonita, and Susan Hickey, both 2 years old, as they play in a sand pile at one of the play areas with wooden blo...
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Delos And Marian Dudley on Cart

Date: 1911
Description: Delos and Marian Dudley riding cart on sidewalk at 1909 Regent Street. Randall School is probably the large building in the background.
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Trees Lining Suburban Neighborhood

Date: 1924
Description: View down a wide, tree-lined neighborhood street. Well-maintained lawns and houses can be seen on the left. A man with a reel mower is working in a yard, a...
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Public School

Date: 1931
Description: View from across street of schoolchildren standing and playing on the sidewalk outside the Benton High School.
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Street Scene

Date: 1929
Description: View down street with children playing in the background. Along the street is a row of businesses and storefronts. Advertisements for Chesterfield cigarett...
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Griggs Album: Girls Playing "London Bridge"

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Description: Four groups of girls in threes playing the game "London Bridge Is Falling Down," on the boulevard in front of a house. This image is part of an album kept ...
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Street Scene

Date: 1928
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...
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UW-Madison Library Mall Fountain

Date: 07 09 1958
Description: James, the three-year-old son of Philip and Mrs. Staudenraus, playing with a sprinkling can in the new University of Wisconsin library mall fountain.
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Shullsburg Catholic Church

Date: 1925
Description: View across lawn of exterior of the Catholic Church, a stone and brick building with stained glass windows. A man is walking down the tree-lined sidewalk o...
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Street Scene

Date: 1925
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...
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Boys Playing Soldier

Date: 1957
Description: Residential street with three boys playing “soldier”.
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Children Playing with Soap Bubbles on Division Street

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Description: Two children playing with bubbles. A young boy sitting on the porch is making bubbles with a bubble gun, while a young girl on the sidewalk in the foregrou...
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Bill Toman and his Dog

Date: 12 17 1979
Description: Bill Toman playing with his dog, Little Niblet, on an icy walkway at Lake Mendota.

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