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| 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: | 08 29 1977 |
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| Description: | Ferry boat passengers on the deck of the SS City of Midland sun themselves as they cross Lake Michigan from Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Ludington, Michi... |
| 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 10 1964 |
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| Description: | A rubber raft serves as the launching point for diving and other water play on a hot summer day. |
| Date: | 01 16 1964 |
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| Description: | A young girl watches out the door of her playhouse while a young boy retrieves letters from the play mailbox. |
| Date: | 02 13 1969 |
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| Description: | The Wonder Bread team, an all-female bowling team getting ready to compete. |
| 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. |
| 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: | 06 25 1988 |
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| Description: | St. Dominic's Catholic Parish members tend the grills at their annual festival. |
| Date: | 08 18 1987 |
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| Description: | At a Hartford antique show, a man looks over a well-maintained Model T Ford. In the background other people inspect more vintage automobiles. |
| Date: | 07 20 1988 |
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| Description: | Young men clamor to catch a Frisbee during a beach game. |
| 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: | 06 17 1987 |
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| Description: | Kids smiling gleefully on the Tilt-a-Whirl carnival ride while workers manage the controls in the background on a sunny summer day. |
| Date: | 05 14 1987 |
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| Description: | A couple holds hands and reads together while sitting on a bench. |
| Date: | 09 06 1988 |
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| Description: | Family members gather around a campfire to enjoy biscuits and sausages cooked on the grill at Naga-Waukee Park. |
| Date: | 04 07 1968 |
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| Description: | Two women in bikinis are walking their dogs by a row of campers at Terry Andrae State Park. |
| Date: | 08 13 1970 |
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| Description: | A boy tries to convince a Hereford to walk down a ramp at the fairgrounds. |
| Date: | 02 27 1989 |
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| Description: | Members of the foils teams of Catholic Memorial High School give a fencing demonstration to a class of elementary school students. |
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