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| Date: | 04 06 1985 |
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| Description: | Young men performing skateboard handstands on downtown sidewalks. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Two young girls with bows in their hair jump rope as a boy watches. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with Muriel and Laurie Peterson, the photographer's children, reflecting on the snow conditions near their home. Laurie holds the rope of a sl... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | James Peterson, son of the photographer, playing the harmonica. He is sitting against a stump, with trees in the distance. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Laurie, Muriel, and James Peterson, children of the photographer, sledding near the family home. Handwritten on reverse, "Laurie, Muriel, James Peterson, c... |
| Date: | 07 10 1967 |
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| Description: | A boy and girl play in the sand at the beach. |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Boys line up on pier for swimming race at Camp Wakanda. |
| Date: | 07 17 1984 |
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| Description: | Two young boys in action playing soccer. |
| Date: | 08 01 1970 |
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| Description: | To escape the heat, teenage girls have a water fight in the backyard pool they built. |
| Date: | 01 16 1964 |
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| Description: | A young girl watches out the door of her playhouse while a young boy retrieves letters from the play mailbox. |
| Date: | 03 27 1963 |
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| Description: | A three-year-old girl uses a toy telephone, and carries on an imaginary conversation at a preschool. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Children working and playing in a community garden at 38th and St. Louis streets. |
| Date: | 07 1923 |
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| Description: | Children at play in a dirt alley on Chicago's west side. |
| Date: | 06 26 1986 |
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| Description: | Kids make a "train," with the bicyclist in the front pulling three girls on roller skates along a sidewalk. |
| Date: | 08 05 1927 |
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| Description: | Elephants drinking water from a wagon pulled by a McCormick-Deering industrial tractor outside a circus tent belonging to the Sells-Floto Circus. Circus wo... |
| Date: | 06 1927 |
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| Description: | Young boy and a toddler relaxing on a homemade tree swing made with an automobile seat. |
| Date: | 09 1925 |
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| Description: | Kenneth Chipman riding a toy railroad engine on the farm of W.W. Chipman. Worked by footpower and with a working whistle bell, the toy engine follows track... |
| 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. |
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