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| Description: | A group of children and adults at a wading pool in a park. |
| Date: | 05 1958 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 03 1909 |
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| Description: | Sandlot baseball game in front of a house and several outbuildings, all in dilapidated condition. |
| Date: | 09 30 1988 |
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| Description: | Young girl holding a book about child care written by Dr. Benjamin Spock, M.D. She is holding the book upside down. |
| Date: | 06 21 1967 |
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| Description: | Young female children celebrate a sleepover while four girls in bed watch another girl toss a pillow in the air. They are smiling gleefully while the pill... |
| Date: | 02 10 1955 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 08 11 1971 |
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| Description: | Children wearing large sacks up to their waists and racing each other. |
| Date: | 09 22 1967 |
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| Description: | A boy is twirling a "hula-hoop" around his neck while another child is watching from the left foreground. |
| Date: | 04 06 1985 |
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| Description: | Young men performing skateboard handstands on downtown sidewalks. |
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| Description: | Man sitting outdoors surrounded by children on Pulaski Street. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Two young girls with bows in their hair jump rope as a boy watches. |
| Date: | 07 10 1967 |
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| Description: | A boy and girl play in the sand at the beach. |
| Date: | 07 17 1984 |
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| Description: | Two young boys in action playing soccer. |
| Date: | 08 01 1970 |
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| Description: | To escape the heat, teenage girls have a water fight in the backyard pool they built. |
| Date: | 03 27 1963 |
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| Description: | A three-year-old girl uses a toy telephone, and carries on an imaginary conversation at a preschool. |
| Date: | 06 26 1986 |
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| Description: | Kids make a "train," with the bicyclist in the front pulling three girls on roller skates along a sidewalk. |
| Date: | 05 28 1955 |
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| Description: | The Riesen family, John, Jeanne, Linda and Jon, playing in their home. |
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