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| Date: | 03 27 1963 |
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| Description: | A three-year-old girl uses a toy telephone, and carries on an imaginary conversation at a preschool. |
| Date: | 12 06 1947 |
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| Description: | Children playing on and near a slide indoors in the Neighborhood House, 768 West Washington Avenue across from Brittingham Park. Pictured on the slide are:... |
| Date: | 02 04 1948 |
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| Description: | Mothers of young children view display of "New Uses of Familiar Things" at the University of Wisconsin Farm and Home Week. Pictured left to right: Susan Ma... |
| Date: | 11 23 1948 |
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| Description: | Fritz Hanson, Peggy Huiskamp, and Winifred Grant of Wisconsin High School, are shown checking on the drive for toys which the school's Junior Red Cross Cou... |
| Date: | 12 02 1948 |
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| Description: | Gifts of dishes, radio-phonograph, wire recorder, toys and books are enjoyed by children at Lapham School. Roundy's Fun Fund provided these and more items ... |
| Date: | 12 14 1948 |
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| Description: | Members of the Allis School Pre-School and Kindergarten club in the school auditorium refinishing old toys and making other Christmas gifts for sick and ne... |
| Date: | 01 31 1949 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin associate professor Dr. Helen C. Dawe, (right) explaining how stringing colored wooden beads aids children's eye-hand coordination.... |
| Date: | 02 15 1949 |
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| Description: | Johnny Rengstorff looks for a missing hamster near a piano, while Danny Steihl, Susan Lorenz and Phillip Johnson watch. Judy Erb examines the hamster's cag... |
| Date: | 02 26 1949 |
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| Description: | Mary Henshue, age 10, has just become eligible for 4-H. She is shown sewing doll clothes. She is a member of the Silver Badgers 4-H Club. A dollhouse is on... |
| Date: | 09 27 1950 |
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| Description: | View of the newly-equipped preschool room at the Neighborhood House, 768 West Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 03 04 1954 |
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| Description: | Mrs. H.L. Gibson works with two pupils at Madison's unique Slow Learners' Nursery School, believed to be the only one of its kind in the country. |
| Date: | 12 01 1954 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin High School student Ted Hegley works post-school hours in the sporting goods department of Wolff, Kubly, and Hirsig. |
| Date: | 12 08 1954 |
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| Description: | Four girls holding toys are standing behind a large cut-out Christmas sleigh at West High School. They are, from left: Betty Baird, Dagny Quisling, Mary Sn... |
| Date: | 12 27 1954 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Chester Hartel and Mrs. Lew Cornelius, officers of Epsilon Sigma Alpha sorority, distribute toys to youngsters at the Salvation Army nursery school. |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Mary Lee Griggs, director of the Play School at Neighborhood House, with Elizabeth Schuch, Joseph Oliva, Joseph Pelitteri, and Yoshi Goto. Two of these chi... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Page from an album kept by Neighborhood House, with images of infants and young children being cared for at the settlement house, including a group outside... |
| Date: | 06 14 1957 |
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| Description: | The set of WMTV's Romper Room program, showing "Miss Nancy" (Eunice Spindler) with her kindergarten "pupils." They include, from left: David Shwaiko, Marg... |
| Date: | 06 14 1957 |
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| Description: | "Miss Nancy" (Eunice Spindler) and five "pupils" sit at tables on the set of WMTV's Romper Room. |
| Date: | 10 09 1957 |
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| Description: | Virginia Gibson works with a child with Down's Syndrome at the nursery school of the Madison Area Council on Retardation (sic) at First Congregation... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Image from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with three girls standing and sitting at a table with a play telephone, a kitchen beater, and play dishe... |
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