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| Description: | A deserted playground with swing sets, slides, and ladders, in front of a group of buildings. There are two young boys near a dwelling in the background. |
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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. |
| Date: | 06 04 1961 |
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| Description: | View of the Honey Creek Rod and Gun Club playground beside Mielke's grist mill. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
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| Description: | Teacher and students pose on and around playground structure with swings outside a clapboard one-room schoolhouse. |
| 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... |
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