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| Date: | 09 30 1988 |
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| Description: | Young girl holding a book about child care written by Dr. Benjamin Spock, M.D. She is holding the book upside down. |
| 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. |
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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... |
| 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: | 1882 |
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| Description: | Woman sitting in a chair reading, with one child on a rocking horse and another child in a high chair. |
| Date: | 02 15 1949 |
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| Description: | Children at play while their mothers mended clothes for the Quaker relief project on a regular Tuesday session at the home of Mrs. Hilton E. (Lillian) Hann... |
| Date: | 08 30 1938 |
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| Description: | Children line up at the entrance to the Superior Bookmobile trailer. Other children ride bicycles and play in a playground in the background. The original... |
| Date: | 08 30 1938 |
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| Description: | A group of children lines up outside the entrance to the Superior Bookmobile (an International truck), parked in a playground area. Other children holding ... |
| Date: | 08 30 1938 |
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| Description: | Three girls stand at the entrance of the Superior Bookmobile (an International truck) holding books. A child playing tennis is in the background. The origi... |
| Date: | 04 23 1926 |
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| Description: | Two children playing on the stone foundation of a basement which appears to have been damaged by fire. A farmhouse with two automobiles parked nearby are i... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Children are sitting on benches looking at books, and other children are playing in a sandbox at Happy Hearts Park. |
| Date: | 02 01 1954 |
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| Description: | Patricia Thieding, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Thieding of Loganville, tries to unlock a door in a play item designed by Jean Hardenbergh from Lake Z... |
| Date: | 04 16 1957 |
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| Description: | Madison Women's Club presents an original play "Man and His God" to raise money for scholarships. Appearing as Adam and Eve (left) are Richard Aukerma of 6... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | With their backs facing the camera, Peter DeWitt (l) and Douglas DeWitt (r) are standing side by side, hammering nails into a pier on Archibald Lake. Dougl... |
| Date: | 1977 |
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| Description: | Grade school children are pretending their diplomas are binoculars in a graduation ceremony. They are wearing hand made robes, and caps with a pom pom inst... |
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