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Filter: Creator Name of Vinje, Arthur M., 1888-1972
| Date: | 06 28 1951 |
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| Description: | Children playing outside the nursery school classroom at the First Unitarian Society meeting house while teachers are watching. The building was designed b... |
| Date: | 06 28 1951 |
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| Description: | Children playing outside the nursery school classroom at the First Unitarian Society Meeting House. The building was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. |
| Date: | 06 10 1944 |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of the four Cantwell children of 2801 Monroe Street, on a slide at Edgewood School. From top: Michael, Jeffrey, Connie, and Roger. |
| Date: | 12 1944 |
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| Description: | Playground equipment with a ladder, swing and teeter totter. |
| Date: | 07 10 1948 |
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| Description: | Outdoors at Lapham School, Al Johnson, Carolyn Mitchell, Noel McGuigan, and Joan Adler are singing to the ukelele accompaniment of Tom Adler, standing, and... |
| Date: | 07 10 1948 |
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| Description: | Larry Downey, Tommy Halverson, upside down, Buddy Halverson, Larry Tollen and Ronny Kather are playing on the climbing bars at Marquette School. |
| Date: | 07 10 1948 |
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| Description: | Playing on the swings at Wingra Park are James Bruce swinging Anne Meyers, Mike Cantwell swinging Peggy Aspinwall, and James Clark swinging Rene Burkhalter... |
| Date: | 07 10 1948 |
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| Description: | Playing in the sandbox at Olbrich Park are Mary Lou Whitney, Ann Spilde, Patsy White, year-old Noreen Kay Morehouse and some playmates. |
| Date: | 09 24 1948 |
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| Description: | Five children with one adult are shown playing on swings at Eagle Heights, a University of Wisconsin-Madison housing development built for faculty families... |
| Date: | 07 21 1949 |
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| Description: | Mid-morning refreshments are an important part of the day for youngsters at the University Faculty Housing playground. Mrs. Harold Green pours a fruit drin... |
| Date: | 07 21 1949 |
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| Description: | Mrs. H.E. Colbert supervises her daughter, Bonita, and Susan Hickey, both 2 years old, as they play in a sand pile at one of the play areas with wooden blo... |
| Date: | 02 23 1950 |
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| Description: | Children play on an ice slide created by two residents of the barracks apartments at Truax Field. A swing set is in the background. |
| Date: | 06 23 1950 |
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| Description: | Glenn "Pat" Holmes (left) and Frank Blau, directors of the Madison summer playground program, are shown checking equipment out to the 30 playgrounds which ... |
| Date: | 07 10 1950 |
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| Description: | Girls and boys participate in a lively croquet game at the Westmorland park playground. They are, from left to right: Jay Voss, Jimmy Leahy, Jimmie Montgo... |
| Date: | 06 28 1950 |
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| Description: | Frances Niles hands out a ball to three boys at the Milton-Charter park playgound. The boys are, left to right: Ross Parisi, Don Brashi, and Marvin Bloom. |
| Date: | 07 10 1950 |
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| Description: | Children play on the heavy duty swing at Sunset Park playground. A summer recreation program at the city's parks is supervised by the city's board of educa... |
| Date: | 06 28 1950 |
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| Description: | Sherry Klein (right) playing a game of checkers with Janice Wirioff at the Milton-Charter park playground as Edward Lambert, Kenneth and Shirley Bloom are ... |
| Date: | 07 10 1950 |
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| Description: | Children play a game of touchball at the Nakoma school playground, one of the many activities offered at the city's playgrounds by the board of education r... |
| Date: | 07 10 1950 |
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| Description: | Three boys playing a game of "washers" at the Olbrich park playground, one of the thirty parks included in the summer playground program sponsored by the B... |
| Date: | 07 10 1950 |
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| Description: | The playground director from the board of education's recreation division reads a story to children at the Wirth Court playground during storybook hour. |
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