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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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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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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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University Faculty Houses in Eagle Heights

Date: 07 21 1949
Description: Mid-morning refreshments are an important part of the day for youngsters at the University Faculty Housing playground. Mrs. Harold Green pours a fruit drin...
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University Faculty Houses in Eagle Heights

Date: 07 21 1949
Description: Mrs. H.E. Colbert supervises her daughter, Bonita, and Susan Hickey, both 2 years old, as they play in a sand pile at one of the play areas with wooden blo...
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Group Portrait on Playground Slide

Date: 1920
Description: A group of friends pose on a playground slide. Included in the group are Cresence Esser Bowar, Matt Bowar (husband of Cresence), Herbert Esser (brother of ...
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Madison Playground Scene

Date: 07 10 1950
Description: The playground director from the board of education's recreation division reads a story to children at the Wirth Court playground during storybook hour.
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Unidentified Rural Schoolhouse

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Description: Teacher and students pose on and around playground structure with swings outside a clapboard one-room schoolhouse.
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Madison Summer Playground Activities

Date: 08 16 1950
Description: A group of kids play a paper game "Air Defense" with two playground directors at a table in Vilas Park. Sitting around the table, from left, are: Nancy Bri...
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Madison Summer Playground Activities

Date: 08 16 1950
Description: Mrs. Irene M. Borman, playground director at the Milton-Charter park for twelve years, sitting at a sand box with youngsters Joane Bruno, Kay Kerwin, and T...
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Young Children at the Park

Date: 1925
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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Grove-Putnam Park

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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...
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Beautiful Effinger Park

Date: 1930
Description: A woman stands with two white dogs among the trees at Effinger Park. The park features benches, a pump, a lawn swing, a gazebo and three cabins.
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Forest Park at Chautauqua Grounds

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Description: Children play in Forest Park at the Chautauqua Grounds, an institution founded in 1874. Residences can be seen beyond the playground at right. Caption read...
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Tether Ball at Cherokee Heights Playground

Date: 08 05 1965
Description: Kathy Kurtz, a playground leader at Cherokee Heights playground, playing tether ball with youngsters at her playground.
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Rosedale Playground Protest

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Description: A woman holds a sign that reads, "Rosedale Playground is America's Shame!" as she stands next to the playground. She is protesting the exclusion of African...
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Sunbathers

Date: 06 2014
Description: Women and men wearing swim suits lying or sitting on the grass in James Madison Park. A man is resting against a tree in the foreground looking out over th...
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Racist Graffiti

Date: 1975
Description: View across street towards a man leaning against a street sign near the corner of a fence enclosing the yard of a housing project. On the right is a concre...

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