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| Date: | 03 20 1965 |
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| Description: | Several men engaged in a serious card game at the Milwaukee Municipal Social Center, one of several centers devoted to social and recreational programs for... |
| Date: | 04 11 1965 |
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| Description: | A hospital patient plays a scrabble game with an occupational therapist. |
| Date: | 09 10 1968 |
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| Description: | Elderly women sit around a card table and play cards at a new senior center. |
| Date: | 08 22 1963 |
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| Description: | "Picnicking in Mitchell Park provided a pleasant afternoon recently for these senior citizens who participated in the Milwaukee County Park Commission's pr... |
| Date: | 04 23 1963 |
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| Description: | A grandmother with daughter and granddaughter. They are nicely dressed for mother's day. |
| Date: | 10 17 1968 |
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| Description: | An elderly man and woman make new cane seats for chairs at the Cedar Lake Home for the Aged. |
| Date: | 03 19 1964 |
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| Description: | Woman assists a senior resident of Little Sisters of the Poor with her new Easter bonnet. |
| Date: | 01 30 1961 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Peter Mohm wears a coat and scarf indoors as she collects taxes in an unheated federal building. |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | A hot dog vendor prepares a hot dog at a stand in Battery park. The cart counter is filled with condiments. A building with a wrap-around window wall is i... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | A woman in a thick black coat with a dog on a leash standing on a sidewalk on West 57th Street. The woman is looking into the distance while the dog tugs o... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Small groups of men in suits sit around tables in folding chairs playing cards in a sunny parking lot. A bridge stretches into the distance above the card... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | A woman sits surrounded by pigeons on a park bench in front of a stone building on FDR Drive. |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Two women having a conversation standing on a sidewalk next to a brick building and near a decorative metal fence. Graffiti on the brick wall reads, "Ho l... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | A woman with a scarf on her head and holding a parcel engaged in a conversation. Only the hand of the other speaker is visible in the photograph. |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | A group of five men and women sit on metal crates in the sun on the Coney Island boardwalk. |
| Date: | 06 23 1962 |
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| Description: | Corner of room with a painting of Knute Reindahl, a violin, a candlestick and an ornate mirror, taken at Reindahl's home. |
| Date: | 04 01 1960 |
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| Description: | A fashionably dressed woman is sharing a book with an elderly woman. |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | Leslie H. Fishel, Jr. with a group of mostly women. He was the Director of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin from 1959 until 1969. |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | Otto F. Schultz, at age 81, uses the same tools his father used in his blacksmith shop. |
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