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Children on Playground Slide

Date: 1919
Description: A group of children posing on and beneath a wooden playground slide. There is a barn in the background.
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Children at Playground

Date: 1925
Description: Elevated view of adults supervising children using swings, a see-saw, a slide, and other playground equipment at Parker Street playground.
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Beautiful Effinger Park

Date: 1930
Description: A woman stands with two white dogs among the trees at Effinger Park. The park features benches, a pump, a lawn swing, a gazebo and three cabins.
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High School

Date: 1922
Description: View of the high school. The building features an arched doorway, a hip roof with three dormers on the front and one on the side, a domed steeple with an A...
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City Park

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Description: A pathway through a park. There is a playground on the right, and a boy is nearby on what appears to be a shoreline. A pavilion is beyond trees on the left...
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Milwaukee: Let's Keep It Clean

Date: 08 1967
Description: Mike Zitke, 14, of 4737 N. 78th Court holding a broom and wearing a shirt reading "We like it here. Milwaukee: Let's keep it clean." Zitke received the shi...
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Pony Rides at Franklin School Playground

Date: 07 03 1954
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...
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Pony Rides at Franklin School Playground

Date: 08 03 1954
Description: Ronda Pyne holding the reins of a pony at the Franklin School playground while wearing a cowboy hat.
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Pony Rides at Franklin School Playground

Date: 08 03 1954
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...
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Pony Rides at Franklin School Playground

Date: 08 03 1954
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...
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Horse-Drawn Sleigh

Date: 03 1959
Description: "Erhard Luhn, Richard Sigler, & Howard Greiner are bringing milk to Widmer Cheese Factory in a horse-drawn sleigh."
Document

Baker Paper Co. Letterhead

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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...
Photograph

Loganville Public School

Date: 1925
Description: Children play on slides, see-saws, and swings in the playground of the public school.
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Food Conservation Demonstration

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Description: Food conservation is demonstrated to a group outdoors at a community center.
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Theresa Learning Center

Date: 06 1995
Description: "Joe Lackas works on the playground behind the Theresa Learning Center."
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Madison Youth Summer Theater

Date: 08 06 1957
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...
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Madison Youth Summer Theater

Date: 08 06 1957
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...
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Scrapbook: Play School Outing

Date: 06 1938
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...
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Brittingham Park Playground Castle

Date: 10 25 1957
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...
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Miles School

Date: 1931
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...

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