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| Date: | 1920 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A group of children, mostly boys wearing caps, playing with flying rings outside at a playground in front of a brick building. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Children playing in a park playground, mainly on a large swing set. |
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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... |
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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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| Description: | Teacher and students pose on and around playground structure with swings outside a clapboard one-room schoolhouse. |
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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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| Description: | Children outdoors on playground equipment, including a slide, at Bethany Orphan Home. |
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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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| 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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| 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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| Description: | Elevated view across road towards Grove-Putnam Park. A short, stone wall separates automobiles parked on the road near the park. People are sitting at picn... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Baker Paper Company of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, paper manufacturers and distributors of Fun Ful playground and swimming pool equipment, with a... |
| Date: | 06 1938 |
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| Description: | Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with images of a spring outing taken by the Bluebirds? and the Orioles children's groups. Children are pl... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Pupils and their teacher (rear) pose in front of their school house. Two cars are parked in the school yard. A man and other pupils stand near a water pump... |
| 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: | 1910 |
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| Description: | From her journal from the Philippines Carrie writes: "Mrs. Zumaar and Mrs. Peacock both taught at the new Anglican school and invited us to visit their cla... |
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| Description: | A woman holds a sign that reads, "Rosedale Playground is America's Shame!" as she stands next to the playground. She is protesting the exclusion of African... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Mamie Arms climbing to the top of a swing set. |
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