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Filter: Creator Name of Vinje, Arthur M., 1888-1972
| Date: | 07 06 1950 |
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| Description: | Six children engage in folk dancing at Randall School playground on Regent Street, while one bystander observes from the background. Pictured dancing from ... |
| Date: | 07 26 1950 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of children with their pets at the Lake Edge playground. |
| Date: | 07 28 1950 |
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| Description: | Pictured left to right are Jerry Licari, Henry Cuccia, and Tommy McCarthy, who are building a birdhouse at the Longfellow playground. At far right is Henr... |
| Date: | 07 26 1950 |
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| Description: | Children stand around a picnic table while doing activities at the Lakeview playground. |
| Date: | 07 28 1950 |
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| Description: | Boys play baseball at the Franklin School playground. The activity is part of the summer program sponsored by the board of education recreational division ... |
| Date: | 07 28 1950 |
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| Description: | Four children with three decorated bicycles and a doll buggy at Gallagher Plat playground. |
| Date: | 08 16 1950 |
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| Description: | A group of kids play a paper game "Air Defense" with two playground directors at a table in Vilas Park. Sitting around the table, from left, are: Nancy Bri... |
| Date: | 08 16 1950 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Irene M. Borman, playground director at the Milton-Charter park for twelve years, sitting at a sand box with youngsters Joane Bruno, Kay Kerwin, and T... |
| Date: | 10 30 1950 |
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| Description: | Nakoma School kindergarten children standing on the playground while playing cowboys and Indians. Three boys are wearing Indian headdresses. |
| Date: | 06 24 1952 |
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| Description: | Constance Raznikow playing on a teeter totter at the Shorewood Hills Play School, a summer recreation program at Shorewood Hills parks and schools. |
| Date: | 07 03 1954 |
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| Description: | Pony rides are given to children at the Franklin School playground. Left to right: Patty Fitzgerald, Jimmie Schaub (on pony), Frances Orvold. Several other... |
| Date: | 08 03 1954 |
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| Description: | Ronda Pyne holding the reins of a pony at the Franklin School playground while wearing a cowboy hat. |
| Date: | 08 03 1954 |
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| Description: | Children wait their turn for a pony ride at Franklin playground. Left to right: Cinda Helleckson, Janice Schaub, Margo Kanvik, and Debby Aberle. The boy at... |
| Date: | 08 03 1954 |
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| Description: | Boys riding in a pony cart at the Franklin School playground. Sitting left to right: Harry Culp, Daniel Triggs, Jeff Engelberger, and Enoch Sherman. Two un... |
| Date: | 08 06 1957 |
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| Description: | The Stage Coach, presented to the teen-aged theatrical group in 1951, is parked at the Marquette School playground. Performers and students in attendance a... |
| Date: | 08 06 1957 |
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| Description: | The Stage Coach and truck used for the Madison Youth Summer Theater driving past a playground. Students who watched the performance are waving to the actor... |
| Date: | 10 25 1957 |
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| Description: | Six officials pose for a group portrait at the dedication of a playground structure made of concrete in the shape of a castle; it is sponsored by the Jayce... |
| Date: | 10 29 1959 |
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| Description: | Susan Thomsen smiling from high atop a seesaw on a warm October day while playing at Yahara Place Park near her home at 502 Dunning Street. Houses in the b... |
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