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| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Three boys painting with watercolors at a folding table. They appear to be on a porch. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with children throwing snowballs outdoors. The children are wearing hats and coats. There are trees and the roofs of houses in the background. |
| Date: | 08 30 1938 |
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| Description: | Children line up at the entrance to the Superior Bookmobile trailer. Other children ride bicycles and play in a playground in the background. The original... |
| Date: | 08 30 1938 |
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| Description: | A group of children lines up outside the entrance to the Superior Bookmobile (an International truck), parked in a playground area. Other children holding ... |
| Date: | 08 30 1938 |
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| Description: | Three girls stand at the entrance of the Superior Bookmobile (an International truck) holding books. A child playing tennis is in the background. The origi... |
| Date: | 02 28 1987 |
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| Description: | Stephanie Johnson (from left), 16, Chanell Biami, 15, and Letesa Evans, 16, played a childhood game Friday after seeing their little sisters playing a rope... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Outdoor portrait of three girls dressed as Red Cross nurses and a boy with a bandage on his head. One girl holds a U.S. flag. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | View of the new bath house at Devil's Lake State Park, taken from the pier. Two small boats are pulled up to the shore and two girls are wading in the wate... |
| Date: | 1971 |
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| Description: | A girl climbs on the back of a model stegosaurus in Prehistoric Land, part of the Enchanted Forest in Wisconsin Dells. There is a wood fence of woven plank... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A play director wearing a hat and long dress is organizing a game with a group of children, mostly girls wearing dresses, one of which is holding a ball. T... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A group of children, mostly boys wearing caps, playing with flying rings outside at a playground in front of a brick building. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Children playing in a park playground, mainly on a large swing set. |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | A group of children sit cross-legged on the floor of the kindergarten room at Lowell School. Dorothy Browne is the child sitting in the chair facing them. ... |
| Date: | 09 1939 |
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| Description: | View from road of a group of seven children playing in front of a house and on the porch, while a woman holding a bag of groceries walks past on the sidewa... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Exhibit poster illustrating the proposed benefits of "open air schools . . . where sick children are made well and weak bones catch up with sound minds." I... |
| Date: | 07 10 1950 |
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| Description: | Girls and boys participate in a lively croquet game at the Westmorland park playground. They are, from left to right: Jay Voss, Jimmy Leahy, Jimmie Montgo... |
| Date: | 06 28 1950 |
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| Description: | Frances Niles hands out a ball to three boys at the Milton-Charter park playgound. The boys are, left to right: Ross Parisi, Don Brashi, and Marvin Bloom. |
| Date: | 07 10 1950 |
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| Description: | Children play on the heavy duty swing at Sunset Park playground. A summer recreation program at the city's parks is supervised by the city's board of educa... |
| Date: | 07 10 1950 |
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| Description: | Children play a game of touchball at the Nakoma school playground, one of the many activities offered at the city's playgrounds by the board of education r... |
| Date: | 07 10 1950 |
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| Description: | Three boys playing a game of "washers" at the Olbrich park playground, one of the thirty parks included in the summer playground program sponsored by the B... |
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