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Lowell School Girls Baseball Team

Date: 07 13 1932
Description: Group portrait of Lowell School playground girls' baseball team.
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Playground Instructors Group

Date: 06 10 1932
Description: Playground instructors group, men and women, with department heads.
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ESBMA Men Group Portrait

Date: 05 25 1928
Description: Group portrait of ESBMA (East Side Business Men's Association) men posing after clearing field for playground at Burr Jones Field, 1800 E. Washington Avenu...
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Men Clearing Field for Playground

Date: 05 25 1928
Description: ESBMA (East Side Business Men's Association) men clearing area for playground at Burr Jones Field at 1800 E. Washington Street.
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Unitarian Meeting House Nursery School

Date: 06 28 1951
Description: Children playing outside the nursery school classroom at the First Unitarian Society meeting house while teachers are watching. The building was designed b...
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Unitarian Meeting House Nursery School

Date: 06 28 1951
Description: Children playing outside the nursery school classroom at the First Unitarian Society Meeting House. The building was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Public School

Date: 1973
Description: Exterior of public school building, with a slide and trees.
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Public School

Date: 1905
Description: Front view of public school building with playground. Caption reads: "Public School - Black Earth, Wis."
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Wooded Cassville Park

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Description: Park with tree-lined lane. Caption reads: "Scene in Riverside Park".
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Little Prairie School

Date: 1950
Description: View of the Little Prairie school with a car parked alongside it. Playground equipment is in the yard.
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Roosevelt School

Date: 1934
Description: Aerial view of the play area for Roosevelt School.
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Tot Lot

Date: 11 28 1971
Description: Tot Lot, a play area for small children created from a vacant lot, funded by the Federal Urban Renewal Authority.
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Cantwell Children

Date: 06 10 1944
Description: Outdoor group portrait of the four Cantwell children of 2801 Monroe Street, on a slide at Edgewood School. From top: Michael, Jeffrey, Connie, and Roger.
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Playground Equipment

Date: 12 1944
Description: Playground equipment with a ladder, swing and teeter totter.
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Playground Scene

Date: 07 10 1948
Description: Outdoors at Lapham School, Al Johnson, Carolyn Mitchell, Noel McGuigan, and Joan Adler are singing to the ukelele accompaniment of Tom Adler, standing, and...
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Playground Scene

Date: 07 10 1948
Description: Larry Downey, Tommy Halverson, upside down, Buddy Halverson, Larry Tollen and Ronny Kather are playing on the climbing bars at Marquette School.
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Playground Scene

Date: 07 10 1948
Description: Playing on the swings at Wingra Park are James Bruce swinging Anne Meyers, Mike Cantwell swinging Peggy Aspinwall, and James Clark swinging Rene Burkhalter...
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Playground Scene

Date: 07 10 1948
Description: Playing in the sandbox at Olbrich Park are Mary Lou Whitney, Ann Spilde, Patsy White, year-old Noreen Kay Morehouse and some playmates.
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Eagle Heights Kids on Swings

Date: 09 24 1948
Description: Five children with one adult are shown playing on swings at Eagle Heights, a University of Wisconsin-Madison housing development built for faculty families...
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Children Swinging

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Description: Children playing on swing set in front of an automobile. A man is seated on a picnic table nearby.

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