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Father with Three Children

Date: 05 1958
Description: A father, Peter Froeming, watching as his three children George, Robert, and Roseann are playing with wooden blocks, with a small toy canoe in the foregrou...
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Children Playing in Bedroom

Date: 02 10 1955
Description: Elevated view of boy sitting on a toy fire engine, another boy dressed as a cowboy, and a girl with a toy cash register playing in the bedroom.
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Playing House

Date: 01 16 1964
Description: A young girl watches out the door of her playhouse while a young boy retrieves letters from the play mailbox.
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Telephone Conversation

Date: 03 27 1963
Description: A three-year-old girl uses a toy telephone, and carries on an imaginary conversation at a preschool.
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Snell House Playroom

Date: 03 24 1932
Description: View of the basement playroom at Chester and Louise Snell's home, 822 Miami Pass. The three children are playing with Snell's miniature circus, rocking hor...
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Woman with Two Children

Date: 1882
Description: Woman sitting in a chair reading, with one child on a rocking horse and another child in a high chair.
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Girls Playing with Dollhouse

Date: 12 04 1962
Description: Carrying out the "Babes in Toyland" theme at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd W. Shamburek, 140 W. Good Hope Road. Peggy (left), arrranges the furniture with...
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Boy Playing with Toy Airplanes

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Description: Young boy with toy airplanes and an aircraft carrier.
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Two Children Play with International Harvester Toys

Date: 05 15 1927
Description: A young boy and girl play with International Harvester toys in front of a fireplace and feather Christmas tree. The toys include a truck, tractor, thresher...
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Neighborhood House

Date: 12 06 1947
Description: Children playing on and near a slide indoors in the Neighborhood House, 768 West Washington Avenue across from Brittingham Park. Pictured on the slide are:...
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Boy with Cream Separator and Toys

Date: 07 16 1929
Description: A young boy is sitting on the floor next to an International Harvester cream separator while playing with a toy tractor and plow. A toy International truck...
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Boy with International Harvester Toys

Date: 1929
Description: A boy is sitting on a tile floor to play with die-cast toys of International Harvester machines, including an all-steel thresher, Farmall tractors, McCormi...
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Child Playing with International Harvester Toys

Date: 07 16 1929
Description: A boy is sitting on the floor near an International Harvester cream separator to play with toy versions of International Harvester machines, including Farm...
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Mrs. Robert C. (Jean) McGuire and Daughter Jean Anne

Date: 01 04 1949
Description: Mrs. Robert C. (Jean) McGuire, formerly of Oshhosh, and her daughter Jean Anne Shephard, on her hobby horse "Lulabelle," in their home at 4413 Winnequah Ro...
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Madison Interracial Sewing Group's Children

Date: 02 15 1949
Description: Children at play while their mothers mended clothes for the Quaker relief project on a regular Tuesday session at the home of Mrs. Hilton E. (Lillian) Hann...
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Dick on Rocking Horse

Date: 1913
Description: Richard Lloyd Jones "Dick" rides a rocking horse.
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Children with Christmas Tree

Date: 1902
Description: Cary and Everetta Bass with their Christmas tree. Cary holds a toy horn; Everetta holds a doll.
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Children with Dollhouse

Date: 1920
Description: A girl wearing a dress and knee socks is sitting in a wooden chair while playing with a two-room dollhouse. An infant is sitting in a chair in front of the...
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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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