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Public School

Date: 1905
Description: Front view of public school building with playground. Caption reads: "Public School - Black Earth, Wis."
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Wooded Cassville Park

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Description: Park with tree-lined lane. Caption reads: "Scene in Riverside Park".
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Little Prairie School

Date: 1950
Description: View of the Little Prairie school with a car parked alongside it. Playground equipment is in the yard.
Postcard

Riverview Park

Date: 1920
Description: View of Riverview Park, with gazebo and slide in foreground. Caption reads: "Riverview Park, Watertown, Wis."
Postcard

Grade School

Date: 1925
Description: Exterior view of a grade school. Caption reads: "Grade School — Spooner Wis."
Photograph

A Park in Winter

Date: 11 29 1989
Description: Panoramic view of Riverside Park during the winter.
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Group Portrait on Playground Slide

Date: 1920
Description: A group of friends pose on a playground slide. Included in the group are Cresence Esser Bowar, Matt Bowar (husband of Cresence), Herbert Esser (brother of ...
Drawing

Planting Plan for Glenwood Children's Park

Date: 04 1945
Description: Graphite pencil and colored pencil drawing on drafting vellum of design for Glenwood Children's Park designed by Jens Jensen. Original drawing 33 x 29 inch...
Photograph

Children Playing with Flying Rings

Date: 1915
Description: A group of children, mostly boys wearing caps, playing with flying rings outside at a playground in front of a brick building.
Photograph

A Park Playground

Date: 1915
Description: Children playing in a park playground, mainly on a large swing set.
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Playground at the State Fair

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Description: Children playing on the playground at the State Fair. The children form lines to climb up the two tall ladders to slide down a pole. Several children are n...
Photograph

Deserted Playground

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Description: A deserted playground with swing sets, slides, and ladders, in front of a group of buildings. There are two young boys near a dwelling in the background.
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Loafing on Playground

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Description: Boys loafing on the playground in the director's absence. Most of them are sitting on a wall next to a building on the edge of the playground.
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Unidentified Rural Schoolhouse

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Description: Teacher and students pose on and around playground structure with swings outside a clapboard one-room schoolhouse.
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First Ward School

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Description: View of First Ward school with children playing on swings in a playground area in the foreground.
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Playground

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Description: A view of children playing on a slide, swings, and see-saws at the playground at S.F.S. Holiday House.
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Children Playing

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Description: Children outdoors on playground equipment, including a slide, at Bethany Orphan Home.
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Glennwood Road School

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Description: A view of the exterior of the Glennwood Road School in Brooklyn, with children playing baseball outside.
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Thuy Nguyen and Ronald McDonald

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Description: Thuy Nguyen poses in front of a Ronald McDonald figure in a public play area. She is wearing a red vinyl jacket. A Pizza Hut sign is visible in the backgro...
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Nguyen Children at Playground

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Description: The children of Trong and Hong Nguyen pose on a playground structure shaped to look like the McDonald's character The Grimace. From left to right in...

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