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Children at Play Outdoors

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Description: Three young boys and one girl at play near a house. Two boys are fixing the wheels on a tricycle and wagon. The girl, holding a doll, is looking on and the...
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Boy Riding Toy Railroad Engine

Date: 09 1925
Description: Kenneth Chipman riding a toy railroad engine on the farm of W.W. Chipman. Worked by footpower and with a working whistle bell, the toy engine follows track...
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Children Performing May-Pole Dance

Date: 1919
Description: School children standing ready to begin a May-pole dance.
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Little Girl and Toy Weber Wagon

Date: 1915
Description: Young girl posing sitting in a scale model or toy version of a Weber farm wagon on a residential lawn.
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Boys in front of Suburban Residence

Date: 06 1925
Description: Two young boys ride bicycles (including a tricycle, or small "penny farthing") along the front walk toward the suburban residence of Robert Wallace, 10153 ...
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Two Boys in Backyard of Suburban Residence

Date: 06 1925
Description: Two young boys playing in the backyard of a suburban residence.
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Trees Lining Suburban Neighborhood

Date: 1924
Description: View down a wide, tree-lined neighborhood street. Well-maintained lawns and houses can be seen on the left. A man with a reel mower is working in a yard, a...
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Front Yard Landscaping of House

Date: 1928
Description: Front yard landscaping of the residential home of A.R. Matthews, master farmer.
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Girl on Seesaw

Date: 1920
Description: A girl with bobbed hair is wearing a one-piece playsuit, knee socks, and buckled sandals while playing on a seesaw (teeter totter).
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Children on Makeshift Teeter Totter

Date: 1920
Description: Young boy and girl playing on a makeshift teeter totter made from a board and a section of a log. The children are likely playing near Sunnyside School.
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Boys and Girl Playing with Toy Wagon

Date: 1920
Description: Young children playing with a toy wagon. An older boy is pulling a young girl sitting in a chair in a wagon, while another boy is pushing from behind. The ...
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Children Playing Jump Rope

Date: 1920
Description: Girls turning rope for a young boy to skip outside the Sunnyside School in Cook County.
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Child with International Harvester Toy Truck

Date: 02 26 1923
Description: Joseph Byron Young playing with a toy International truck in the yard of a farm.
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Schoolchildren Playing Outdoors

Date: 05 20 1924
Description: Children play a game outdoors beside a rural school building.
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Child in Toy Locomotive

Date: 1925
Description: View across years towards a boy looking out the window of a cab of a toy locomotive as he is moving along a set of wooden tracks. Behind him is the wall of...
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Man Sitting on Porch

Date: 1915
Description: View from yard of man sitting and reading a newspaper or magazine in a rocking chair on the porch of a house.
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Two Buggies Parked in front of Storefront

Date: 10 1906
Description: Two buggies are sitting parked in from of "E.P. Phillips Coal Wood & Machinery" store, possibly an International Harvester dealership. The first buggy is p...
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Man, Woman and Child Posing in Yard

Date: 1900
Description: View across shady lawn towards a man standing behind a girl sitting in a chair. Behind them is a house. On the right is a lawn swing, and beyond is a woman...
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Farm with Tire Swing in Yard

Date: 06 16 1925
Description: View across road towards a farm with windmill and silo. There is a tire swing in the front yard on the left.
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Backyards Along "K" Street

Date: 1904
Description: Elevated view of a number of backyards after planting. There is a factory building in the background on the left, and children playing in sand in the foreg...

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