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| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Group of children playing with a makeshift diving board at Brittingham Bay swimming hole. |
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| Description: | Two girls look into the water at their reflections as they lay sprawled on a wooden pier. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with Mark Mueller, the photographer's son standing ankle deep in snow with a dog, and smiling as the snow continues to fall. The family was sl... |
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| Description: | Children and a few adults (possibly teachers) hold hands in a circle while other children stand by or swing under a tree in a rural setting. Horse-drawn ca... |
| Date: | 05 20 1924 |
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| Description: | Country school children playing "Baby in the Hole." There is a hand-pump in the background under trees. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Mother and her four children playing on the steps of a house. The children are playing with blocks, dolls and a stuffed animal. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Children playing in a sand box, or "sand garden" at the Woodlawn School garden. American flags are planted in the sand and a teacher or older child is hold... |
| Date: | 09 20 1988 |
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| Description: | A father gives his young son archery pointers in Kletzsch Park while his daughter looks on. |
| Date: | 12 28 1962 |
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| Description: | Jean Meyer plays with the sucker she got at a mother-daugher Christmas holiday tea. |
| Date: | 07 13 1989 |
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| Description: | A boy stretches to catch a water-filled balloon. |
| Date: | 09 12 1971 |
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| Description: | Children fashioned their seesaw using a board, and a barricade with a sign that reads: "Road Closed" that they found in an empty lot. |
| Date: | 02 11 1955 |
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| Description: | A winter scene with boys playing basketball in the snow, with temperatures around 10 below zero. |
| Date: | 10 14 1961 |
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| Description: | Girls wearing head scarves form their fingers to make "binoculars" on a sunny autumn day. |
| Date: | 08 07 1989 |
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| Description: | Jay Taylor, age 12, demonstrates his skill on stilts with a walk down E. Nock Street. |
| Date: | 03 28 1980 |
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| Description: | A frisbee is backlit by the sun as a boy reaches out to catch it. |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising catalog for the Plano Manufacturing Company, manufacturers of grain binders, mowers, headers, reapers, and hay rakes. The cover fea... |
| Date: | 01 24 1935 |
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| Description: | Washington School kindergarten class, 217 N. Broom Street, with children playing in a boat built of blocks. |
| Date: | 07 29 1934 |
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| Description: | Children in costume as king, queen and attendants at the Kiddie Camp Fair. |
| Date: | 07 17 1933 |
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| Description: | A large group of children plays in a sandbox at The Capital Times Kiddie Camp. |
| Date: | 01 11 1933 |
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| Description: | Draper kindergarten room with children surrounding a "fire engine" they created. |
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