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| 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: | 1928 |
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| Description: | View down street. On the left is the McCann. Undertaking building and grocery store. Two children play on a wagon on the sidewalk. Five people are gathered... |
| Date: | 07 09 1958 |
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| Description: | James, the three-year-old son of Philip and Mrs. Staudenraus, playing with a sprinkling can in the new University of Wisconsin library mall fountain. |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Children play on swings in front of the imposing Port Wing Consolidated School. It is two stories tall, with wood frame construction, a tall sandstone foun... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Children pose on a merry-go-round (carousel) in the Edgerton Public Park. The rear wall of a church forms the background, and there appears to be a bridge ... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View across lawn of exterior of the Catholic Church, a stone and brick building with stained glass windows. A man is walking down the tree-lined sidewalk o... |
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| Description: | View from the shade of a building towards a boy and girl sitting on a pile of dirt playing. There is a small buggy on the left. In the background are a num... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A view of a street in the central business district. A restaurant with a group of men in front on the left. Three children with a wagon on the right. A hou... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | A group of six children play on a frozen pond on the right. The Dunham School and trees appear inside a fence on the left, and the ground is covered with s... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | A man wearing a hat pushes a rig similar to a horse mill to give four children a ride on a merry go round in the Columbus Park. The children are seated on ... |
| Date: | 05 21 1959 |
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| Description: | Mary Gandt sits with her young charge, Dana Rosenthal, in the sandbox. Mary is babysitting to earn money for the Girl Scout trip to a Round-Up in Colorado. |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with boys in winter coats and hats aiming toy stick guns while posing on an igloo and fort they have built from snow. A church building forms ... |
| Date: | 01 11 1963 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with two young boys playing in the snow in front of their home. Milwaukee Journal January 12, 1963 original caption: "The same snow tha... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Three farm girls, probably of German extraction, seated on a bench, playing with three kids (young goats) in their laps. There are buildings in the backgro... |
| Date: | 10 29 1959 |
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| Description: | Susan Thomsen smiling from high atop a seesaw on a warm October day while playing at Yahara Place Park near her home at 502 Dunning Street. Houses in the b... |
| Date: | 07 1984 |
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| Description: | Water barrel fight: two groups with dueling hoses suspend a barrel in air. Children and adults look on with excitment. |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Residential street with three boys playing “soldier”. |
| Date: | 03 1910 |
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| Description: | Anna Fox and Rosella as children playing with and on a sledge “drawn” by a wooden horse named Caesar. |
| Date: | 08 16 1960 |
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| Description: | Madison Theater Guild's Youth Summer Theater presents the adult show Tolstoy's "The First Distiller" in the Washington School auditorium. The play is direc... |
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