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| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with a family and their dog preparing for their descent down the hill on a toboggan. From left to right, Gene Anderson (my uncle), Betsy Marqu... |
| Date: | 06 21 1957 |
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| Description: | View along shoreline of crowded Bradford beach. |
| 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: | 08 25 1967 |
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| Description: | Construction workers enjoying a beer after pouring concrete for a bridge structure. |
| Date: | 09 10 1968 |
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| Description: | Elderly women sit around a card table and play cards at a new senior center. |
| Date: | 08 22 1963 |
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| Description: | "Picnicking in Mitchell Park provided a pleasant afternoon recently for these senior citizens who participated in the Milwaukee County Park Commission's pr... |
| Date: | 03 27 1963 |
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| Description: | A three-year-old girl uses a toy telephone, and carries on an imaginary conversation at a preschool. |
| Date: | 07 07 1963 |
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| Description: | Jehovah's Witnesses assembly camper doing laundry. |
| Date: | 02 13 1969 |
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| Description: | The Wonder Bread team, an all-female bowling team getting ready to compete. |
| Date: | 05 14 1958 |
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| Description: | Four women playing Mah Jongg, a Chinese game using tiles. |
| Date: | 08 15 1963 |
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| Description: | Two women examine a prizing winning chiffon cake. |
| Date: | 11 10 1963 |
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| Description: | A college male successfully plunges for an apple while a college female looks on. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a gymnasium that has been converted into a place where citizens can vote on election day. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the monthly Stock Fair. The roof of a building is in the left foreground. Horse-drawn wagons line the street, and there is a large buildin... |
| Date: | 06 26 1986 |
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| Description: | Kids make a "train," with the bicyclist in the front pulling three girls on roller skates along a sidewalk. |
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| Description: | Group of racers bank around a turn on a velodrome track. |
| Date: | 01 23 1989 |
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| Description: | A man cowers in mock awe before Kodiak, a 14,000 pound Ford Silverado rigged with six-foot-tall tires and an extra heavy-duty suspension. The truck compet... |
| Date: | 09 06 1988 |
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| Description: | A woman overlooks the Labor-at-the-Lakefront festival next to a banner that reads "Buy Union," "Buy Made in USA," and "Keep the Heart of America Beating." |
| Date: | 05 14 1987 |
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| Description: | A couple holds hands and reads together while sitting on a bench. |
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