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| Date: | 09 24 1948 |
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| 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... |
| 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: | 1934 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the play area for Roosevelt School. |
| Date: | 08 29 1961 |
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| Description: | Joseph (Roundy) Coughlin is shown trying to get on board a new whirl-a-round at Children's Park at Central Wisconsin Colony and Training School. The new pl... |
| Date: | 1977 |
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| Description: | Children playing on monkey bars as snow falls. A dwelling or schoolhouse is in the background. |
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| Description: | Group of four children sitting on a merry-go-round on the lawn of a resort. In the center of the merry-go-round is a sign that reads: Made by Dells Mfg. Co... |
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| Description: | Recreational grounds near the beach at Terry Andrae State Park. A woman and a child are on a swing set. There are teeter totters on the left. |
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| Description: | Children playing on swing set in front of an automobile. A man is seated on a picnic table nearby. |
| 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: | 06 29 1957 |
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| Description: | Two boys playing "washers" game at a city playground. |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Children pose on a merry-go-round (carousel) in the Edgerton Public Park. The rear wall of a church forms the background, and there appears to be a bridge ... |
| Date: | 07 26 1950 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of children with their pets at the Lake Edge playground. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | A swing set at a public park. There is a windmill in the background. |
| Date: | 07 25 1961 |
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| Description: | Soot-smudged Dorothy Phelan (3) eating a charcoal toasted marshmallow at the Wirth Ct. Park Hobo Party. |
| Date: | 08 05 1965 |
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| Description: | Kathy Kurtz, a playground leader at Cherokee Heights playground, playing tether ball with youngsters at her playground. |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Pupils and their teacher (rear) pose in front of their school house. Two cars are parked in the school yard. A man and other pupils stand near a water pump... |
| Date: | 11 28 1971 |
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| Description: | Tot Lot, a play area for small children created from a vacant lot, funded by the Federal Urban Renewal Authority. |
| Date: | 11 29 1989 |
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| Description: | Panoramic view of Riverside Park during the winter. |
| 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. |
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