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Boy with Hula-Hoop

Date: 09 22 1967
Description: A boy is twirling a "hula-hoop" around his neck while another child is watching from the left foreground.
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Koinonia Youth Camp in the Highlander Library

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Description: Koinonia Youth Camp in the Highlander Library at the Highlander Folk School. The woman in the background is identified as Septima Clark. Koinonia is a far...
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Koinonia Children's Campers in front of Library

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Description: Group portrait of children and adults, some carrying stuffed animals, in front of the library at the Koinonia Children's Camp. Ruthie Hartford in the cente...
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Madison General Hospital Auxiliary

Date: 01 02 1951
Description: Madison General Hospital Auxiliary volunteer worker Goldye Mohr standing at the bedside of Sidney Hargrove, age 2.
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Neighborhood House Album: Playtime

Date: 1925
Description: Page from an album kept by Neighborhood House, with images of infants and young children being cared for at the settlement house, including a group outside...
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Neighborhood House Activities Scrapbook: Play School

Date: 1946
Description: Image from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with three girls standing and sitting at a table with a play telephone, a kitchen beater, and play dishe...
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Blessed Martin House Nursery School

Date: 10 19 1960
Description: Students from Edgewood College assist Donna Jones, director of the Blessed Martin House nursery school, which will benefit from the annual bazaar of the De...
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Give 'till It Helps...Yes, Someone Cares

Date: 10 1961
Description: Madison Neighborhood Centers is one of 29 United Givers agencies. At three centers (Atwood Community Center, the Neighborhood House and South Madison Neigh...
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Baby Paul Arms

Date: 1964
Description: Paul Arms as an infant sitting on an ottoman with a toy on his lap at Lewis Arms' house at 847 Williamson Street. An adult is partially visible on the left...
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Arms Child with Jack-O-Lantern

Date: 10 1966
Description: One of Lewis Arms's children (most likely Paul Arms) is wearing a Halloween mask and holding a jack-o-lantern. He is standing in front of a rocking horse o...
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Activities at the South Madison Neighborhood Center

Date: 03 11 1958
Description: Benjie Henderson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Henderson (1907 Baird Street), attends the nursery school conducted by Miss Mary Lee Griggs two times a week at...
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Water Fight on a Hot Summer Day

Date: 09 02 1960
Description: Two African-American boys shooting water pistols at each other on a hot summer day while sitting on front porch steps.
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Old West-themed Reunion

Date: 08 17 1989
Description: A man and a woman posing together. Both are wearing cowboy/cowgirl costumes and riding hobby horses. Caption reads: "With the Old West as the theme, family...

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