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First Snowfall at Sherman Terrace

Date: 11 26 1953
Description: Trying out their sleds are Judy Stanley and Wendy Wanda.
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First Snowfall at Sherman Terrace

Date: 11 26 1953
Description: Throwing snowballs are Mike Gubner and Mike Weaver. Standing in back are Jim Shaler, Bobby Weaver, Richard Malken, Jerry Bassell, and Donald Artley.
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First Snowfall at Sherman Terrace

Date: 11 26 1953
Description: Bobby Carr enjoying a downhill run on his sled.
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Boys Fishing During Spring Break

Date: 04 19 1954
Description: Rickey Holmes, David Dopkins, and Dick Quinlan digging for worms before heading to the Tenney Park lagoon to fish. Dick is using a shovel to overturn wet d...
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Boys Fishing During Spring Break

Date: 04 19 1954
Description: Emil Thomas taking his beagle, BeBe, on a leash with him to fish. Walking along the dirt shore of the pond at Tenney Park, the dog is pulling on the leash,...
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Boys Fishing During Spring Break

Date: 04 19 1954
Description: Milwaukee boys, John and David Malec, in Madison to visit their grandmother, Mrs. Louis Malec at 1134 E. Gorham Street. John is fishing on the Yahara River...
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Boys Fishing During Spring Break

Date: 04 19 1954
Description: Dale Jordan showing a fish, caught fishing with friends at Tenney Park.
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Memorial Day Parade

Date: 05 31 1954
Description: Children lining the street for the Memorial Day parade around Capitol Square.
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YMCA Camp Wakanda

Date: 07 21 1954
Description: YMCA staff member Harold Haak (top, center) declares Bill Cunningham (left) safe at home. Other players are Robert Berhagen as catcher and Steve Walrath, w...
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We Saw You . . . Swinging at the Park

Date: 07 28 1954
Description: Tommy Eithum (of 754 W. Washington Avenue) is shown playing on a swing at Brittingham Park.
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YMCA Camp Wakanda

Date: 07 21 1954
Description: Archers John Vick, Ricky Wixson and Douglas Merdler preparing to send their arrows.
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We Saw You . . . Swinging at the Park

Date: 07 28 1954
Description: Mary Jane Caruso (of 780 Gwinnett Court) is shown playing on a swing at Brittingham Park.
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Laurie Stein

Date: 07 19 1954
Description: Laurie Stein (the photographer's daughter) in a bouncy swing. She is chewing on wooden clothes pins.
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Swimmers at Vilas Park Beach

Date: 06 26 1955
Description: Swimming instructor Ann Sundt checking on swimmers in the shallow water at the Vilas Park Beach.
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Swimmers at Vilas Park Beach

Date: 06 26 1955
Description: Three girls running into the water of Lake Wingra at the Vilas Park Beach.
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Swimmers at Vilas Park Beach

Date: 06 26 1955
Description: Boys playing in the water of Lake Wingra at the Vilas Park Beach.
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Ice Skaters at Vilas Park

Date: 12 18 1954
Description: Stella Gelman helping her daughter, Cindy, ice skate on frozen parts of Lake Wingra at Vilas Park.
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Ice Skaters at Vilas Park

Date: 12 18 1954
Description: Francis Nerlinger is teaching his daughter, Susan Jane, to ice skate at the Vilas Park ice skating rink by Lake Wingra.
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Scene at Shullsburg's Badger Park

Date: 07 1955
Description: Children lining up on a sidewalk to enter the stone bathhouse that leads to the swimming pool.
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Ice Skaters at Vilas Park

Date: 12 18 1954
Description: Francis Nerlinger helping daughter, Susan Jane, after she fell face forward on the ice at Vilas Park ice rink by Lake Wingra.

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