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| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Margery Bish sitting on the wooden stairs at Irvine Park. Two men are standing further back on the tree-lined path. Irvine Park was established in 1906 on ... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 06 1927 |
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| Description: | Edward J. Rickers with UW nightwatchman "Gramps," on a Lake Mendota outing. They are seated on the grass together with a picnic lunch and a campfire. There... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Picnic and play area at Interstate Park, near the St. Croix River. Two girls swing as an adult male sits on a picnic table in the foreground with a child o... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | The catcher squats as the batter gets ready to swing at a pitch while the umpire looks on. This image was taken as part of the WPA Federal Writers Project... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | View of people fishing and boating in Washington Park Lagoon. Three boys are fishing with long bamboo poles from the bank on the left, and two boys are in ... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Man, seen from waist down, pushing a small girl in a stroller in Vilas Park. He is carrying a camera in his right hand. |
| Date: | 08 1952 |
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| Description: | Copper Falls in Copper Falls State Park. The falls are on the Bad River. A group of people are standing on the rocks on the right. Trees are in the backgro... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Olbrich Gardens viewed through the tulip garden towards Lake Monona. Two women and a man are walking on the sidewalk towards an open structure. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | A tense moment in a night baseball game played at the Dorothy Enderis Playground. Two men are standing and watching the game through the chain link fence. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | An adult and a child riding a toboggan down the slide at Iverson Park. |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of a fisherman standing on the rocks below a spillway. Trees are along the shoreline. On the right is a picnic area, and on the hori... |
| Date: | 05 1968 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from riverbank of a family enjoying a canoe ride on the Wisconsin River, in Tower Hill State Park. The trees are thick on both shorelines. |
| Date: | 1978 |
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| Description: | Native Americans keeping the music alive. George Whitewing, a Ho Chunk musician from Wittenberg, Wisconsin, plays his drum while a crowd looks on in Red Cl... |
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