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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: | 01 24 1953 |
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| Description: | Group of boy scouts lined up for Klondike Derby sled race, where the boys pulled the sleds, on Monona Golf Course. Nearly 300 scouts from the Dane County a... |
| Date: | 02 23 1950 |
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| Description: | Children play on an ice slide created by two residents of the barracks apartments at Truax Field. A swing set is in the background. |
| Date: | 01 13 1952 |
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| Description: | Dr. David Williams, center left, looks over first aid equipment prior to the Boy Scouts Klondike Derby at Glenway Golf Course. In the background are other ... |
| Date: | 01 13 1952 |
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| Description: | A group pulls a home-made Alaskan-type sled during the Boy Scouts Klondike at Glenway Golf Course. |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with Lewis Arms sitting on a sled in the snow at his uncle Otis Arms's farm, Hillsboro (Vernon Co.), Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 01 05 1954 |
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| Description: | Several neighborhood children are standing by a toboggan slide set up by the Orchard Ridge Community Club. From left, they are Polly Buchholtz, Debbie Wood... |
| Date: | 01 05 1959 |
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| Description: | "Bundle up Tight" is the theme of this tobogganing group as they don winter clothing in preparation for outdoor activities. Shown from left to right are Ma... |
| Date: | 11 26 1953 |
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| Description: | Trying out their sleds are Judy Stanley and Wendy Wanda. |
| Date: | 11 26 1953 |
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| Description: | Bobby Carr enjoying a downhill run on his sled. |
| Date: | 01 17 1958 |
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| Description: | A group of five happy children going down the hill on a wooden toboggan at Olbrich Park. The hill is a man-made slide, edged with small pine trees. |
| Date: | 01 17 1958 |
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| Description: | A girl is beaming in anticipation while sitting at the front of a wooden toboggan at the top of a steep slide at Olbrich Park. Another child is behind her,... |
| Date: | 01 17 1958 |
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| Description: | Children dressed in heavy winter clothing, on a wooden toboggan at the bottom of a steep slide erected at Olbrich Park. |
| Date: | 01 17 1958 |
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| Description: | Children going downhill on a toboggan at Olbrich Park don't seem to mind if scarves are flying as they squeal, scream and shout. The toboggan is made of wo... |
| Date: | 03 01 1958 |
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| Description: | Larry (9) and Howard (13) Schwartz work at building a snow slide in their front yard at 4322 Wakefield Street. |
| Date: | 03 01 1959 |
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| Description: | Howard Schwartz (13) helps his brother Larry (9) climb aboard a flying saucer on top of the snow slide they built in their front yard at 4322 Wakefield Str... |
| Date: | 03 01 1959 |
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| Description: | Larry Schwartz (9) starts his slide in a saucer on the homemade snow slide he and his brother Howard (13) built in their front yard at 4322 Wakefield Stree... |
| Date: | 03 01 1959 |
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| Description: | Larry Schwartz (9) sliding down the homemade snow slide on a saucer in his front yard at 4322 Wakefield Street. He and his brother Howard (13) built the sl... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | An adult and a child riding a toboggan down the slide at Iverson Park. |
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