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Skateboard Handstands

Date: 04 06 1985
Description: Young men performing skateboard handstands on downtown sidewalks.
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Blizzards Are Fun

Date: 1955
Description: Winter scene with Mark Mueller, the photographer's son standing ankle deep in snow with a dog, and smiling as the snow continues to fall. The family was sl...
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Winter Basketball

Date: 02 11 1955
Description: A winter scene with boys playing basketball in the snow, with temperatures around 10 below zero.
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Virginia Gillette Spanking Dicky Dupois

Date: 08 27 1931
Description: Virginia Gillette demonstrates how residents in the 400 block of Virginia Terrace are combating traffic dangers by spanking. Dicky Dupois is over her knee,...
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Tree Sitters

Date: 07 26 1930
Description: Ed Sullivan, age 11, 1119 W. Dayton Street, and Gordon Todd, 118 N. Charter Street, sitting in a tree in the 1100 block of W. Dayton Street, pursuing the t...
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Double Header

Date: 06 09 1988
Description: Twins from the Sting of Wauwatosa warm up for Milwaukee Kickers League soccer tournament. They are wearing matching t-shirts and are spiking two soccer bal...
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Three Teenagers Playing on Sidewalk

Date: 02 28 1987
Description: Stephanie Johnson (from left), 16, Chanell Biami, 15, and Letesa Evans, 16, played a childhood game Friday after seeing their little sisters playing a rope...
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Bill Toman and his Dog

Date: 12 17 1979
Description: Bill Toman playing with his dog, Little Niblet, on an icy walkway at Lake Mendota.
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Sand Script

Date: 1955
Description: Young girl at the beach writing her name in the sand.
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Team! Team!

Date: 1955
Description: Two young boys playing with a football. One boy wearing a helmet is about to kick the football, just as the other boy has just stood the ball upright.
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Playground Games

Date: 1968
Description: Children and adults having a tug of war during a play day at Marquette School. A fence and dwellings are in the background.
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Precarious Perch

Date: 1978
Description: A girl is riding her bike through a puddle created by melting snow. She is holding her feet up off the pedals, away from the splashing water.
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Spring Release

Date: 1976
Description: A boy flying a diamond-shaped kite in a grassy field.

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