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| Date: | 03 1955 |
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| Description: | Fourteen-month-old Charles Straight, playing in his wooden crib with the family pet hen "Minnie" by tugging on the tail, in their rural home. The walls are... |
| Date: | 08 1955 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin State Journal carriers Lloyd Briggs and Harold Joyce attacking a volley ball at Blue Mounds State Park. The partially obscured boy is unid... |
| Date: | 08 1955 |
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| Description: | Nineteen Wisconsin State Journal carrier boys at the Blue Mounds State Park swimming pool. Some are shown diving off a platform named for the previo... |
| Date: | 04 21 1957 |
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| Description: | The Madison Women's Club presents the original play "Man and His God" to raise money for scholarships. A group from Beth El Temple rehearsing a scene in wh... |
| Date: | 04 16 1957 |
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| Description: | Madison Women's Club presents an original play "Man and His God" to raise money for scholarships. Appearing as Adam and Eve (left) are Richard Aukerma of 6... |
| Date: | 04 16 1957 |
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| Description: | The Madison Women's Club presents the original play "Man and His God" to raise money for scholarships. Depicting the conversion of Izeyl to Buddhism (left ... |
| Date: | 04 16 1957 |
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| Description: | Madison Women's Club presents the original play "Man and His God" to raise money for scholarships. Shown depicting the sacrifice of Isaac by Abraham (left ... |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a number of backyards after planting. There is a factory building in the background on the left, and children playing in sand in the foreg... |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Jeannette Holt and Harriet Stroh are sitting and lying in the grass while playing with three dolls. Two of the dolls are sitting on a swing, made of sticks... |
| Date: | 05 15 1957 |
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| Description: | Children frolicking in rain water which collected in the Milwaukee Railroad underpass on North Park Street during Tuesday afternoon's heavy downpour. There... |
| Date: | 06 04 1957 |
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| Description: | After lunch, a "wrestling match" breaks out between Tom Brew and another scout while Gene Maddrell and Greg Bruhn shout encouragement. |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Three Stroh sisters are sitting outdoors under a tall tree on the Island. Harriet Stroh (center) is dressed as the queen. Elizabeth Stroh (left) and Margar... |
| Date: | 08 16 1957 |
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| Description: | Playground director, Phil Gottschalk, dressed as a cowboy, showing off his guns to young costumed onlookers at the recent Truax Field playground party. |
| Date: | 08 16 1957 |
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| Description: | Santa Claus and some gypsies put in an appearance at the Truax Field Playground Costume Party. Santa was John Terry. |
| 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: | 01 17 1958 |
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| Description: | A group of five happy children going down the hill on a wooden toboggan at Olbrich Park. The hill is a man-made slide, edged with small pine trees. |
| Date: | 01 17 1958 |
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| Description: | A girl is beaming in anticipation while sitting at the front of a wooden toboggan at the top of a steep slide at Olbrich Park. Another child is behind her,... |
| Date: | 01 17 1958 |
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| Description: | Children going downhill on a toboggan at Olbrich Park don't seem to mind if scarves are flying as they squeal, scream and shout. The toboggan is made of wo... |
| Date: | 03 11 1958 |
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| Description: | Benjie Henderson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Henderson (1907 Baird Street), attends the nursery school conducted by Miss Mary Lee Griggs two times a week at... |
| Date: | 03 11 1958 |
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| Description: | Bobby Abbott (background, 22 South Park Street) and Ernest Vance (4 South Francis Street) are playing catch in a gymnasium at the Neighborhood House at 768... |
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