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Girls Sitting on a Snowman

Date: 02 02 1947
Description: Winter scene with two young girls, Jo Ann Simon and Barbara Gatanowicz, sitting on a reclining snowman in front of the Camp Randall married student trailer...
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Camp Randall Trailer Park (Monroe Park)

Date: 02 21 1947
Description: Mrs. Milton Sager, in a trailer home at Camp Randall, does day care with six children. The trailer park, provided by the University of Wisconsin, is for WW...
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Camp Randall Trailer Park (Monroe Park)

Date: 02 23 1947
Description: Trailer residents Mrs. and Mrs. Marvin Riley and their daughter Kathleen defend mobile home life, and speak of living "as a real family in our own little h...
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Trailer Camp Flood

Date: 02 27 1948
Description: Flood at the University of Wisconsin-Madison East Hill Trailer Camp, located at 451 North Midvale Boulevard, south of University Avenue. Shown are several ...
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Trailer Camp Flood

Date: 01 27 1948
Description: Flood at the University of Wisconsin-Madison East Hill Trailer Camp, located at 451 North Midvale Boulevard, south of University Avenue. Shown are two of ...
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Trailer Camp Flood

Date: 02 26 1948
Description: Flood at the University of Wisconsin-Madison East Hill Trailer Camp, located at 451 North Midvale Boulevard, south of University Avenue. Several men are sh...
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Trailer Camp Flood

Date: 02 27 1947
Description: Flood at the University of Wisconsin-Madison East Hill Trailer Camp, located at 451 North Midvale Boulevard, south of University Avenue. Looking west, sho...
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Trailer Explosion

Date: 05 04 1948
Description: A house trailer, owned by Edward Kirby, exploded at the Taylor trailer camp, 1038 South Park Street. The explosion was caused by a bottle gas leak. Kirby a...
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West Side Neighborhood

Date: 08 06 1948
Description: Elevated view of west side neighborhood showing East Hill Trailer Camp, 451 N. Midvale Boulevard, at the corner of University Avenue and Midvale Boulevard.
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Olin Park Trailer Camp

Date: 01 14 1949
Description: House trailers in the Olin Park trailer camp near Murphy's Creek (now Wingra Creek) entrance to Lake Monona, the site where two 2-year-old residents of the...
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Storm Damage with Trailers

Date: 07 08 1951
Description: Four people are in the foreground overlooking two storm damaged large trailer homes, one piled on top of another. They and the trailers are at Elver Traile...
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Larson Family Living in Trailer

Date: 11 16 1951
Description: The Larson family, including a mother, father, and two children, are sitting in the living room of their mobile home (probably at Truax Field trailer camp)...

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