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Boys Reading at Neighborhood House

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Description: One boy reads a book to a group of boys who are seated or lying in front of him by a fireplace. A sign on the mantel reads, "Silence". Boy Scout insignia a...
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Boxing at Neighborhood House Family Night

Date: 1948
Description: A boy with boxing gloves sitting and awaiting his turn in the ring, with a man and another boy crouching on either side of him and other children behind th...
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Neighborhood House Album: Boy Scouts

Date: 1935
Description: Page from an album kept by Neighborhood House, with three images of a Boy Scout troop: a group portrait in front of the settlement house with men and boys ...
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Christmas Play at Neighborhood House

Date: 1923
Description: Performers lined up on the stage in "The Toy Shop," a Christmas play, with a Santa figure, a boy in harlequin dress, two boys in military uniforms, girls i...
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Neighborhood House Album: Boy Scouts Saluting

Date: 1935
Description: Image from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with a three-quarter view of a man and two boy scouts on either side of him who are standing at attentio...
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Neighborhood House Activities Scrapbook: Play School Scenes

Date: 1946
Description: Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with two images from the Play School for 3 and 4 year olds: a boy is opening his mouth for a woman who is...
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Neighborhood House Album: Tin Cans Clean-up

Date: 04 1935
Description: Page from an album kept by Neighborhood House, with a group of Boy Scouts and some of the 12,000 tin cans they collected in a neighborhood clean-up campaig...
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Neighborhood House: Boys at The Roost

Date: 1929
Description: Group of boys getting ready for bed in a corner of The Roost in Piper's Woods (a 10 acre woods located a mile and a half past Forest Hill cemetery on the S...
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Sewing Saturday Mornings at Neighborhood House

Date: 1924
Description: Groups of children are sitting at tables for a Saturday morning sewing group at Neighborhood House, with a woman helping the children at each table. One bo...
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Boys Group at Neighborhood House

Date: 02 1954
Description: "While others played games, this group of boys 'coached' from the sidelines." (photo caption in Wisconsin State Journal), L to R: Edward Abbott, Joh...
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Camp Fire Girls Circle at Neighborhood House

Date: 1925
Description: Group of Camp Fire Girls, some in uniform, sitting on the floor in a circle around lighted candles. Some girls are standing and holding Camp Fire Girls ban...
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Better Homes and Gardens Club Record Book: Catherine LaBruzzo

Date: 1939
Description: Image from the Garden Club record book kept by Neighborhood House, with the winner of the Best Garden competition in the Junior Girls category, Catherine L...
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Boys' Woodwork Group at Neighborhood House

Date: 1923
Description: Group of boys at a woodworking session in the basement shop at Neighborhood House, with boys posing with various tools and planks of wood. In the far backg...
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Neighborhood House Boys Camping Scrapbook: Fire Tower

Date: 07 1941
Description: Fire tower at Pigeon Lake Boys' Camp, a summer camp sponsored by the Recreation Department of the Work Projects Administration. Thirteen boys associated wi...

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