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| 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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| Description: | Recreational grounds near the beach at Terry Andrae State Park. A woman and a child are on a swing set. There are teeter totters on the left. |
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| Description: | Page from Joy Camps photo album displaying five photographs. Young campers are participating in a number of activities, including tennis, seesawing, boatin... |
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| Description: | Group of younger campers sitting and standing on a wood seesaw near trees. |
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| Description: | Wooden playground structure on or near the grounds of Neighborhood House, with a McDonald's on Regent Street visible in the far background. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view of the public school building. Caption reads: "Public School — Eagle, Wis." |
| Date: | 07 20 1961 |
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| Description: | Two children walking home carrying their costumes following a Dress Up Day celebration at a city playground. |
| Date: | 07 20 1961 |
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| Description: | Children in costumes line up as three mothers judge their costumes. The finalist contestants are dressed as assorted characters including a hula dancer, an... |
| Date: | 08 29 1961 |
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| Description: | Joseph (Roundy) Coughlin is shown trying to get on board a new whirl-a-round at Children's Park at Central Wisconsin Colony and Training School. The new pl... |
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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: | 06 2014 |
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| Description: | Women and men wearing swim suits lying or sitting on the grass in James Madison Park. A man is resting against a tree in the foreground looking out over th... |
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| Description: | Chicago Child Care Society designed by the architectural firm Keck and Keck as Project #617 in 1963. This building was three stories built above grade. The... |
| Date: | 1981 |
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| Description: | A large bur oak with a notably crooked trunk standing next to the Congregational Church on Milwaukee Avenue. There are picnic tables under the tree and pla... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Fold-out map of the zoo inside a publication titled: "The Master Plan For Henry Vilas Park Zoo." Includes Lake Wingra, the lagoon, and the playground. |
| Date: | 11 1964 |
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| Description: | Fold-out map of the zoo inside a publication titled: "Henry Vilas Park Zoo: An Instructive Book on the Origin and Habits of Animals." Includes Lake Wingra,... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | A view, looking south, at the intersection of West Mt. Vernon Avenue and North 65th Street. In the foreground is a shallow pool where children are playing,... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Mamie Arms climbing to the top of a swing set. |
| Date: | 07 1955 |
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| Description: | Sharon Miller of Cuba City zooming down a slide under shady trees at Badger Park. |
| Date: | 06 29 1957 |
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| Description: | Group of children on a city playground playing dodge ball (called "ball tag"). The boy on far left is finishing a toss. |
| Date: | 08 16 1957 |
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| Description: | Playground director, Phil Gottschalk, dressed as a cowboy, showing off his guns to young costumed onlookers at the recent Truax Field playground party. |
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