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| 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: | 09 05 1931 |
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| Description: | Two school children are playing with a girl sitting on a tricycle while walking to school. |
| Date: | 08 27 1931 |
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| Description: | Virginia Gillette demonstrates how residents in the 400 block of Virginia Terrace are combating traffic dangers by spanking. Dicky Dupois is over her knee,... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with children sledding down 400 block of North Pinckney Street, Madison, Wisconsin, including 10 boys on a coasting bobsled. Three houses are ... |
| Date: | 06 14 1944 |
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| Description: | Children in swimming suits playing in a miniature lake created by heavy rains in the area of Fox and Prospect Avenues. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | View across street towards the house at 1717 Fremont Avenue. Two small children are riding tricycles in front of the house. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Children standing on barrels in front of Droster Grocery and Filling Station at 1438 Sherman Avenue, run by Red Whitney. The children are Whitney's nieces ... |
| Date: | 07 10 1950 |
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| Description: | Three boys playing a game of "washers" at the Olbrich park playground, one of the thirty parks included in the summer playground program sponsored by the B... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | View from across street of schoolchildren standing and playing on the sidewalk outside the Benton High School. |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | View down street with children playing in the background. Along the street is a row of businesses and storefronts. Advertisements for Chesterfield cigarett... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with children crossing the street in front of the settlement house, gathering Easter eggs in the park, po... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | View down street. On the left is the McCann. Undertaking building and grocery store. Two children play on a wagon on the sidewalk. Five people are gathered... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A view of a street in the central business district. A restaurant with a group of men in front on the left. Three children with a wagon on the right. A hou... |
| Date: | 08 26 1961 |
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| Description: | Peter Schram, 10, sitting on a home-made race car while being pushed by Bruce Mills, 11. The boys built the racer from boards and wheels from an old coaste... |
| Date: | 05 15 1957 |
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| Description: | Children frolicking in rain water which collected in the Milwaukee Railroad underpass on North Park Street during Tuesday afternoon's heavy downpour. There... |
| Date: | 1974 |
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| Description: | Two girls are rolling about in the street on small, foot-powered, six-wheeled ATV toys, and a man is standing on the corner next to a building with a billb... |
| 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: | 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: | 04 1903 |
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| Description: | Fred Phelps is driving a small wagon with a team of dogs on the wooden sidewalk in Oconto. Eleanor and Alfred Holt are the passengers. Looking at the camer... |
| Date: | 10 21 1960 |
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| Description: | Five year-old Paula Scharch sitting in a pile of leaves. |
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