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Children at Play Outdoors

Date: 
Description: Three young boys and one girl at play near a house. Two boys are fixing the wheels on a tricycle and wagon. The girl, holding a doll, is looking on and the...
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Tannisse and David Taylor having a Tea Party

Date: 1914
Description: Photographer Herman Taylor's children sit at a little table in front of the hearth in the library.
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Christmas Scene

Date: 12 28 1928
Description: A little girl posing in a living room with a Christmas tree, toys, and a doll she got for Christmas.
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Family at Table

Date: 1878
Description: A family is gathered around a table loaded with books and potted plants. Children sit on soap boxes in front, including a girl with a doll. The frame house...
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Family Posed in Yard of House

Date: 1878
Description: A family is gathered outdoors around a table with plants and books. A girl holds a doll and next to her a boy sits on a soap box. The frame house behind th...
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Large Family with Dog

Date: 1879
Description: Large family group, and dog in right foreground, around table that has large books on it. A little girl sitting on the grass in front of the table has a do...
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Book Week

Date: 11 09 1948
Description: Six children preview new books and historical dolls. Left to right they are: James Scrivner, Paul Ives, Shirley Kleven, Carolyn Watzke, Judy Kay Lemon and ...
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Gifts of Roundy's Fun Fund

Date: 12 02 1948
Description: Gifts of dishes, radio-phonograph, wire recorder, toys and books are enjoyed by children at Lapham School. Roundy's Fun Fund provided these and more items ...
Print

A Merry Christmas Invitation

Date: 1885
Description: A die cut holiday card that has moving parts. When the string at the bottom is pulled, pictures of children appear and disappear. The image is of a decorat...
Postcard

A Bright and Happy Christmas to You

Date: 1910
Description: Holiday postcard of two children, one with blonde hair and one with brunette hair. They are in bed wearing their pajamas while emptying their Christmas st...
Print

Merry Christmas

Date: 1918
Description: Holiday card with a young girl looking at herself in the mirror. She is wearing a white dress with a green sash, white stockings, black shoes and a militar...
Print

Sweet and Modest Little Girls

Date: 1859
Description: Valentine's Day card with young girl holding a doll. She and her doll are both wearing a dress. The girl has her hair in a snood. A verse is below that rea...
Photograph

Indoor Group Portrait

Date: 
Description: Man and woman pose on left, a girl sitting in a chair is posed holding a doll, with a dog posed sitting in a chair next to her. On the right, a boy is pose...
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African-American Family

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of an African-American family. Sitting in the back is a man, holding a book, and a woman. Sitting in front is a boy, holding a gun, ...
Poster

Pour que vos enfants ne connaissent plus les horreurs de la guerre, souscrivez á l'Emprunt National

Date: 1917
Description: Poster with an illustration of a woman standing and holding in her arms a small child wearing a nightgown. They are next to a bed with a doll resting on th...
Poster

Comité Américain Pour les Régions Dévastées de France

Date: 1919
Description: Poster with an illustration of a woman holding a baby in her arms being presented a house by a woman on the American Committee for the Devastated Regions o...
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Girls with Squirrel

Date: 1905
Description: An available light, interior view of two girls, identified on the negative envelope as Ella and Thresa [sic] Alson, flanking a small table. There is a live...
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Children's Toy Exhibit

Date: 12 1948
Description: Two girls looking at dolls on a table. Caption reads: "Exhibit of children's toys. About Christmas, 1948."

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