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| Date: | 08 11 1971 |
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| Description: | Children wearing large sacks up to their waists and racing each other. |
| 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: | 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: | 03 05 1972 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of Divine Saviour United Methodist Church at 6402 Hammersley Road, featuring colored glass windows with redwood paneling. |
| 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: | 02 19 1978 |
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| Description: | "Sledding on the Brewery Hill. (Top to bottom) Julie Wiedmeyer, 10, Tammy Konrath, 9, and Vicky Konrath, 7." |
| Date: | 02 19 1978 |
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| Description: | "Having fun on the Brewery Hill. Vicky Konrath and Julie Wiedmeyer." |
| Date: | 02 14 1978 |
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| Description: | "Valentine's Day party in Theresa Public School gymnasium." |
| Date: | 02 12 1978 |
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| Description: | "With the approach of Valentine's Day, the camera looks through the decorated windows of the Bob Bernhard home. Brenda watches her brother, Scott, playing ... |
| Date: | 1971 |
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| Description: | "Kay Widmer pulls her toboggan up the hill that is on the southwest edge of the village." |
| Date: | 06 1978 |
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| Description: | Two boys are in the midst of a game of tug of war. They're dressed in overalls, jeans and t-shirts and are in full KISS makeup. KISS was a rock band which ... |
| 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: | 12 17 1979 |
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| Description: | Bill Toman playing with his dog, Little Niblet, on an icy walkway at Lake Mendota. |
| Date: | 1974 |
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| Description: | Two girls are rolling about in the street on small, foot-powered, six-wheeled ATV toys, and a man is standing on the corner next to a building with a billb... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | A woman spraying water upwards with a hose to create a "rain shower." She is wearing a bikini. |
| Date: | 1977 |
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| Description: | Children playing on monkey bars as snow falls. A dwelling or schoolhouse is in the background. |
| Date: | 1978 |
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| Description: | A girl is riding her bike through a puddle created by melting snow. She is holding her feet up off the pedals, away from the splashing water. |
| Date: | 1976 |
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| Description: | A boy flying a diamond-shaped kite in a grassy field. |
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