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Filter: Subject of Swings
| Date: | 04 1950 |
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| Description: | A girl on a swing is the subject of photographers demonstrating a technique using high speed flash. |
| Date: | 08 26 1932 |
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| Description: | Edgewood kindergarten play corner with children, including Jack Kurth, Alex McCormick, Kathleen Kellogg, Dorothy Fox, Bobbie McCormick, and Patsy McCarthy.... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Enclosed porch of Hull Cottage showing "rustic" log furniture as well as a Mission Style porch swing and Arts & Crafts area rugs. The Hull cottage, a.k.a. ... |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Merrick residence, with a woman sitting on a swing on the front porch. |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Group portrait on porch of the three children of Cyrus Hall McCormick, Jr. (1859-1936), and his wife, Harriet Bradley Hammond (1862-1921). Pictured, left t... |
| Date: | 07 20 1932 |
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| Description: | Harry and Morgan Manchester, and six girls employed at Manchesters, enjoying a picnic supper on the lawn of their Maple Bluff home. L to r: Catherine Alber... |
| Date: | 04 1901 |
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| Description: | Hattie Pautz, sitting and posing with her dolls in front of the side of a building. On the ground next to her is one of the dolls in a doll-sized lawn swin... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | In 1845, Ole Wettlesen and his wife Thorbjor and family left Laardal, Telemark, Norway, for America, eventually settling in Dane County. There, Ole establi... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Park view featuring two children and their nurse or nanny in the foreground and an inset of the hospital in the upper left corner. Caption reads: "Stoughto... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | The Taylor Orphan Asylum, view from the rear. Children are playing on the lawn in front. |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | A older man and a young girl holding a doll are seated together on a porch swing for an outdoor portrait. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Richard "Dick" Lloyd Jones, Florence Lloyd Jones (Bis or Bisser) and Jenkin Lloyd Jones outside on a platform swing. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Farmyard of O.W. Anderson with farmhouse, barn, silo, and windmill. There is a platform swing in the yard. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Four children, one boy and three girls, playing on a a swing set outside of a brick building, probably a school. |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | The children's playground in McLaughlin Park. Caption reads: "Children's Playground, McLaughlin Park, Tillary Street School." |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of Shady Rest Cottage at Lake Breeze Resort. The building has a stone chimney and there is a wooden bench swing in the front yard. Caption re... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Young children playing at the park. Original caption reads: "Beacon playground — about 800 daily attendance. Splendid arrangement of playground and athleti... |
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| Description: | Elevated view across road towards Grove-Putnam Park. A short, stone wall separates automobiles parked on the road near the park. People are sitting at picn... |
| Date: | 06 24 1952 |
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| Description: | Jean Christenson and Craig Olafsson playing on a swing at the Shorewood Hills Play School, a summer recreation program at Shorewood Hills schools and parks... |
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| Description: | Outdoor portrait of five children and various dolls in front of a small wooden structure or cabin. A boy is standing on the left side, holding the handle t... |
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