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| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | A group of children posing on and beneath a wooden playground slide. There is a barn in the background. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of adults supervising children using swings, a see-saw, a slide, and other playground equipment at Parker Street playground. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A girl from Sunnyside School balancing on one leg outdoors. She is wearing a dress and has a large bow in her hair. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Boys from Sunnyside School playing leapfrog on the lawn outside a building. Other children are sitting near a screen door in the background. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A girl wearing a dress and knee socks is sitting in a wooden chair while playing with a two-room dollhouse. An infant is sitting in a chair in front of the... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View across years towards a boy looking out the window of a cab of a toy locomotive as he is moving along a set of wooden tracks. Behind him is the wall of... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Tootsie, the Middleton family dog, stands with front paws resting on Forest's hip. Forest holds a switch in his right hand and, most likely, a treat in his... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Children joining hands while playing in an alleyway between brick buildings in an area of tenement housing. A line of laundry suspended over the alley is h... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | A large slide at Pease's Resort on the shore of the Upper Eau Claire Lake. Children are in the water near stairs that go up the hill. |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | View from across street of schoolchildren standing and playing on the sidewalk outside the Benton High School. |
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| Description: | Children play in Forest Park at the Chautauqua Grounds, an institution founded in 1874. Residences can be seen beyond the playground at right. Caption read... |
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| Description: | Children play outside New Salem Academy, incorporated in 1795.The steeple of North Congregational Church, built in 1807, is visible beyond the school. Publ... |
| Date: | 02 01 1954 |
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| Description: | Patricia Thieding, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Thieding of Loganville, tries to unlock a door in a play item designed by Jean Hardenbergh from Lake Z... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of children playing outside adobe homes in a residential area. |
| Date: | 05 15 1954 |
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| Description: | Joan Mani and Annetta Evert arrange a spot for cooking over a fire in the sand during the annual seventh and eighth grade play day of the Black Hawk Counci... |
| Date: | 05 15 1954 |
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| Description: | Yvonne Egstad of Middleton takes a picture of two Sauk City fellow campers, Mary Jane Dickerson (left) and Anita Meyer. They were participating in the seve... |
| Date: | 05 15 1954 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of three senior scouts who helped with the younger campers at the seventh and eighth grade play camp at Black Hawk Council's Camp Brandenbur... |
| Date: | 07 16 1949 |
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| Description: | Advertising proof for International trucks, featuring a color illustration of a couple of boys waving at a passing semi-truck (tractor-trailer). Includes t... |
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| Description: | View of children playing at the Zabriskie Playground outside Number Nine Public School. The playground is found at the intersection of Mercer and Wayne St... |
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