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Lowell School Girls Baseball Team

Date: 07 13 1932
Description: Group portrait of Lowell School playground girls' baseball team.
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Playground Scene

Date: 07 10 1948
Description: Outdoors at Lapham School, Al Johnson, Carolyn Mitchell, Noel McGuigan, and Joan Adler are singing to the ukelele accompaniment of Tom Adler, standing, and...
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Playground Scene

Date: 07 10 1948
Description: Larry Downey, Tommy Halverson, upside down, Buddy Halverson, Larry Tollen and Ronny Kather are playing on the climbing bars at Marquette School.
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Unidentified Rural Schoolhouse

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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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Nakoma Kindergarten Children

Date: 10 30 1950
Description: Nakoma School kindergarten children standing on the playground while playing cowboys and Indians. Three boys are wearing Indian headdresses.
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Children Playing on School Grounds

Date: 1924
Description: Elevated view of school children running and playing on open school grounds. There is a schoolhouse in the background.
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Shorewood Hills Play School

Date: 06 24 1952
Description: Constance Raznikow playing on a teeter totter at the Shorewood Hills Play School, a summer recreation program at Shorewood Hills parks and schools.
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Children Clearing Land for New School Playground

Date: 03 13 1915
Description: Several children clearing land for a new school playground. Three boys are using axes to chop a log, and other children are gathered near the fire. Three b...
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Children at Playground

Date: 1925
Description: Children playing games behind a fence. In the foreground other children are playing in a sandbox on a school playground next to several buildings.
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Number Nine Public School

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Description: View of children playing at the Zabriskie Playground outside Number Nine Public School. The playground is found at the intersection of Mercer and Wayne St...
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Central Ward School

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Description: Exterior of Central Ward School, a brick building featuring a central colonnaded tower. Children can be seen near the playground outside the school.
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Loganville Public School

Date: 1925
Description: Children play on slides, see-saws, and swings in the playground of the public school.
Map or Atlas

Kenosha County, Wisconsin

Date: 1946
Description: A map showing the roads, railroads, towns, cities and villages, streams and lakes, airports, schools, churches, cemeteries, and golf courses in Kenosha Cou...
Photograph

Theresa Learning Center

Date: 06 1995
Description: "Joe Lackas works on the playground behind the Theresa Learning Center."
Map or Atlas

Map of Milwaukee County and Plans of Pewaukee, Oconomowoc, Soldiers' Home, Wauwatosa, Waukesha

Date: 1891
Description: A hand-colored map of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin that shows the township and range system, sections, towns, roads, railroads and rail stations, cities and...
Map or Atlas

Map of Milwaukee County and Plans of Pewaukee, Oconomowoc, Soldiers' Home, Wauwatosa, Waukesha

Date: 1902
Description: A map of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin that shows the township and range system, sections, towns, roads, railroads and rail stations, cities and villages, po...
Map or Atlas

Street Map of Milwaukee County

Date: 1976
Description: A street map of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin that identifies the location of schools, hospitals, parks, beaches, streets, freeways, both planned or under co...
Map or Atlas

A Map of Toxic Sites in Milwaukee County

Date: 1993
Description: A map of Milwaukee County, indicating the locations of toxic sites and the types of toxic sites, ranging from those listed as a superfund site, industry re...
Map or Atlas

Map of Door County - Marathon Forms Map Service

Date: 1944
Description: Shows roads, railroads, schools, dairy plants, seaplane bases, wayside parks, and commercial/municipal fields. "Marathon Forms Map Service, Wisconsin repre...
Map or Atlas

Hydrographic Map of the Oconomowoc-Waukesha Lake District, Waukesha County, Wisconsin

Date: 1898
Description: Map showing the contour depths of the lakes in northwestern Waukesha County, Wisconsin. Roads, railroads, depots, churches, schools, and hotels in the area...

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