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Van Hise School Recreation Center Offers Table Games

Date: 11 15 1958
Description: Competition during a table top basketball game played with ping-pong balls at the Van Hise School recreation center. Bob Reinfreid, son of Dr. and Mrs. Wil...
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After Dinner Entertainment

Date: 1978
Description: Two women and a man are performing a skit in front of the brick fireplace in the living room at Forest Lodge. One woman is holding a paper fan and wearing...
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Recreation Room, 302 N. Brooks Street

Date: 04 26 1934
Description: Joseph J. and Grace Fitzpatrick house, 302 N. Brooks Street, with a view of the recreation room in the basement.
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Recreation Room, 302 N. Brooks Street

Date: 04 26 1934
Description: Joseph J. and Grace Fitzpatrick house, 302 N. Brooks Street, recreation room in the basement, featuring a ping pong table.
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"Jacks" Tournament at University of Wisconsin Sorority

Date: 03 27 1954
Description: Bruce Slagg of Evanston, Illinois, and Jane Forman (Alpha Phi social chairman) posing sitting behind the trophy, which is an oversized jack and a tennis ba...
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"Jacks" Tournament at University of Wisconsin Sorority

Date: 03 27 1954
Description: Sue Fehland from Wausau and Mary Heiser from Freeport, Illinois, are watching Ken Hauser from Ridgewood N.J., who is taking a turn at jacks while kneeling ...
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"Jacks" Tournament at University of Wisconsin Sorority

Date: 03 27 1954
Description: University of Wisconsin student, Dave Hubbard, from Rockford, Illinois, is playing jacks while kneeling on the floor. He is competing in a tournament at th...
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"Jacks" Tournament at University of Wisconsin Sorority

Date: 03 27 1954
Description: A large group of University of Wisconsin students playing jacks, while sitting on the floor during a tournament at the Alpha Phi House. One female student...
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Little Badgers Basketball Camp

Date: 12 20 1954
Description: Elevated view of a large group of children in a large circle being taught basketball during a Little Badgers basketball camp. The camp is being held in an ...
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Telephone Conversation

Date: 03 27 1963
Description: A three-year-old girl uses a toy telephone, and carries on an imaginary conversation at a preschool.
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Children Playing in Bedroom

Date: 02 10 1955
Description: Elevated view of boy sitting on a toy fire engine, another boy dressed as a cowboy, and a girl with a toy cash register playing in the bedroom.
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Sleepover

Date: 06 21 1967
Description: Young female children celebrate a sleepover while four girls in bed watch another girl toss a pillow in the air. They are smiling gleefully while the pill...
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Edgewood Kindergarten

Date: 08 26 1932
Description: Edgewood kindergarten play corner with children, including Jack Kurth, Alex McCormick, Kathleen Kellogg, Dorothy Fox, Bobbie McCormick, and Patsy McCarthy....
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Child with Book

Date: 09 30 1988
Description: Young girl holding a book about child care written by Dr. Benjamin Spock, M.D. She is holding the book upside down.
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Playing House

Date: 01 16 1964
Description: A young girl watches out the door of her playhouse while a young boy retrieves letters from the play mailbox.
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Boy with Radio Kit

Date: 10 02 1954
Description: Boy with radio kit, experimenting with a two tube radio receiver.
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Father with Three Children

Date: 05 1958
Description: A father, Peter Froeming, watching as his three children George, Robert, and Roseann are playing with wooden blocks, with a small toy canoe in the foregrou...
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Southern Wisconsin Shuffleboard Tournament

Date: 04 18 1949
Description: After four weeks of qualifying play, the champion of the Southern Wisconsin shuffleboard tournament was to be declared the following Sunday afternoon and n...
Poster

WLA Exhibit Poster: Open Air Schools

Date: 1915
Description: Exhibit poster illustrating the proposed benefits of "open air schools . . . where sick children are made well and weak bones catch up with sound minds." I...
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Young Students Playing

Date: 1939
Description: A young boy and a young girl playing in their kindergarten classroom near a ladder and slide.

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