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| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Children play a game outdoors as a part of a Freedom School activity. |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Children play on swings in front of the imposing Port Wing Consolidated School. It is two stories tall, with wood frame construction, a tall sandstone foun... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Children pose on a merry-go-round (carousel) in the Edgerton Public Park. The rear wall of a church forms the background, and there appears to be a bridge ... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | A man wearing a hat pushes a rig similar to a horse mill to give four children a ride on a merry go round in the Columbus Park. The children are seated on ... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with boys in winter coats and hats aiming toy stick guns while posing on an igloo and fort they have built from snow. A church building forms ... |
| Date: | 03 1910 |
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| Description: | Anna Fox and Rosella as children playing with and on a sledge “drawn” by a wooden horse named Caesar. |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | William O. Petersen, youngest son of William F. and Alma Schmidt Petersen, plays at the Geneva Lake shore. There is a picnic basket in the background and a... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | Dr. William F. Petersen sits in the doorway of a toy teepee playing with his sons Conrad, left, and Edward, dressed in Indian costumes. Edward wields a toy... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A group of eight Native American school girls posing near playground equipment. A brick school building is in the background. The girls are dressed in ide... |
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| Description: | View from rock cliff looking down at four girls standing on a beach in a square, throwing a beach ball to each other. The older girls are standing in the w... |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of a lake towards several children climbing or standing on a wooden pier. On the side of the pier is a wooden slide that angles into th... |
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| Description: | A boy is standing on a small table and pouring water, out of a watering can, onto a girl sitting in the grass holding up an umbrella. |
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| Description: | Several children playing in a sandbox, which has a tree growing from its center. In the background and out of focus, two women are standing near what could... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Several children posing on tree limbs. The children are identified as: "Front row, right to left: Paul Syftestedt, Jean Chalmers, Ellen Shaw Garrison, Rich... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A boy is sitting on the ground and getting ready to hammer nails through two boards. |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Three boys are dressed in cowboy hats, gloves, boots, and t-shirts featuring Roy Rogers and his horse Trigger. One boy is holding a toy pistol on the other... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | A child is posing, perhaps in mid push-up, in a front yard. A caption identifies the child as Rudy Vertiska. |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | A boy wearing overalls is riding a tricycle outdoors. A caption identifies him as John Peters. |
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