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The Riesen Family

Date: 05 28 1955
Description: The Riesen family, John, Jeanne, Linda and Jon, playing in their home.
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Mother and Children Play on House Steps

Date: 1920
Description: Mother and her four children playing on the steps of a house. The children are playing with blocks, dolls and a stuffed animal.
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"Hand-held Binoculars"

Date: 10 14 1961
Description: Girls wearing head scarves form their fingers to make "binoculars" on a sunny autumn day.
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Draper Kindergarten

Date: 01 11 1933
Description: Draper kindergarten room with children surrounding a "fire engine" they created.
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Edgewood Kindergarten Country Store Setup

Date: 11 10 1932
Description: Edgewood kindergarten country store setup. Sign says: "Kindergarten Kun(tree) Store" (rebus), with group portrait of eleven children.
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Snell House Playroom

Date: 03 24 1932
Description: View of the basement playroom at Chester and Louise Snell's home, 822 Miami Pass. The three children are playing with Snell's miniature circus, rocking hor...
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Playing with Wagons

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Description: Esther Bigalk Clark, Edgar Krueger (on tricycle), Jennie Krueger, and Josie Bigalk Wendorf playing with wagons, dolls and a toy wheelbarrow outdoors.
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Woman with Two Children

Date: 1882
Description: Woman sitting in a chair reading, with one child on a rocking horse and another child in a high chair.
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Students with Model Airplanes at Marquette School

Date: 01 19 1944
Description: Children of parents who work at war plants participate in after school recreation program at Marquette School. Shown standing behind a ping-pong table, wit...
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Adams Children on Toboggan

Date: 12 12 1944
Description: Winter scene with the four children of Mr. and Mrs. Deane Adams, 843 Farwell Drive, Maple Bluff, on their toboggan. Left to right: Deane, Joan & Susan (twi...
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Four Children Playing in Sandbox

Date: 04 28 1945
Description: Children of Mr. and Mrs. Norman E. Dean, 909 Lincoln Street, playing in their sandbox. Pictured left to right: Carol 7, holding her baby sister, Derilyn 2 ...
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Mrs. Joseph P. O'Brien with Her Two Daughters

Date: 05 28 1945
Description: Mrs. Joseph P. O'Brien, 1627 Jefferson Street, with her two daughters, playing in Vilas Park. Pictured left to right: Sharon Anne 2 1/2, and Mary Kay 1, wh...
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Children on Snow Sled with Mother

Date: 12 06 1947
Description: Winter scene with Betty Ann and Arthur G. Field on a sled in the snow with their mother Elizabeth Field kneeling next to them near a stone wall. The family...
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Hoyt Park Toboggan Slide

Date: 12 23 1947
Description: Three teenagers posing on the steps of the toboggan slide at Hoyt Park. Ascending the steps are Al Gay, Mary Homann, and Ruth Ann Gay. Two young boys are s...
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Playground Scene

Date: 07 10 1948
Description: Larry Downey, Tommy Halverson, upside down, Buddy Halverson, Larry Tollen and Ronny Kather are playing on the climbing bars at Marquette School.
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University of Wisconsin Summer Speech Clinic

Date: 08 11 1948
Description: Five children outdoors blowing bubbles in front of their teacher, Betty Suliver, at the summer speech clinic at the Orthopedic Hospital, 1415 Linden Drive....
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State High School Basketball Tournament

Date: 03 10 1949
Description: Cuba City cheerleaders at the state high school basketball tournament. Left to right are: Helen Sullivan, Jerry Rasque, Barbara Boldt, and JoAnn Cummings.
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Washington School Orthopedic Department

Date: 03 31 1949
Description: Taking motherly care of their dolls in the orthopedic department at Washington School are, left to right: Jeanne Laugen, Virginia Czerpinski, and Marian Mc...
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Washington School Orthopedic Department

Date: 03 31 1949
Description: Jimmy Fladen, Christine Mercer, and Paul Vincent manipulate Punch and Judy marionettes in the orthopedic department at Washington School, 545 West Dayton S...
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Group with Bicycles and Oars

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Description: A group of seventeen young people of varying ages posing outside against a hill with bicycles and a set of rowing oars.

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