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West High School Tennis Courts

Date: 04 18 1935
Description: Girls playing tennis on the new West High tennis courts. Includes a full view of the back of West High School.
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Tennis Players

Date: 03 12 1935
Description: Four young women tennis players greeting each other at the net at Tenney Park's new tennis courts. From left to right are: Alta Mae Freund, Violette Spence...
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L.C. and Daisy Bates with Men and KKK Cross

Date: 10 15 1956
Description: Daisy and L.C. Bates with two men and a Ku Klux Klan (KKK) cross that they found in their yard. Because this event preceded the integration crisis of 1957 ...
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St. James School First Day

Date: 09 03 1952
Description: A group of students are shown 'trudging' up the steps at St. James school as Sister Mary Ferdinella, principal, welcomes her flock from atop the steps.
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Westmorland Plans Colonial Ball

Date: 02 13 1960
Description: Planning committee members for the annual Westmorland Colonial Ball include, left to right, Rose Plevak, Evelyn Cannon, Elizabeth Skowlund, Marion Hoeveler...
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Outdoor Portrait of European American Women

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Description: Outdoor portrait of two unidentified women posing standing. In the background are several wooden buildings. The women are wearing dark-colored skirts, ligh...
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Neighborhood Scene

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Description: Outdoor view across lawn toward a European American woman posing standing on the porch of a wooden house. A girl is posing sitting on a wagon behind a wood...
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Neighborhood House

Date: 02 08 1956
Description: Among those attending a meeting at Neighborhood House, 768 West Washington Avenue, are left to right, Mrs. Ola Jordan, Jennie Schrage, Marguerite Judd and ...
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Shirley Abrahamson

Date: 07 26 1962
Description: Attorney, Shirley Abrahamson, walking her Irish Setters, Brisco and Betsy-B near her Fish Hatchery Road home. She is a member of the law firm of LaFollette...
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Van Vlissingen School

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Description: A man is standing on a brick walk near young men and women tending to trees and plants between a tall wood fence and a pipe railing running along the walk....
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Sitting under the Canopy in Oconto

Date: 1899
Description: Shaded by a striped canopy, three women are sitting together and smiling in the Holt family backyard. Wearing aprons, the woman on the left and the woman w...
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Aunt May and Jeannette Holt in the Backyard

Date: 05 08 1899
Description: Looking at the camera, Jeannette Holt is standing next to her aunt May in the backyard of the Holt family home. Minnie May Rumsey is sitting on the hammock...
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Family Picnic at Shorewood Hills Home

Date: 06 25 1958
Description: Daughter Ann helping her mother setting the table for a family picnic in the backyard of the Professor Frank J. Remington home.
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Children Playing in a Hammock

Date: 07 20 1958
Description: Laurie Stein, 5 year old daughter of photographer Edwin Stein, playing in a double hammock with her friend Sara.

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