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Homemade Snow Slide in a Front Yard

Date: 03 01 1959
Description: Larry Schwartz (9) sliding down the homemade snow slide on a saucer in his front yard at 4322 Wakefield Street. He and his brother Howard (13) built the sl...
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Homemade Snow Slide in a Front Yard

Date: 03 01 1959
Description: Larry Schwartz (9) starts his slide in a saucer on the homemade snow slide he and his brother Howard (13) built in their front yard at 4322 Wakefield Stree...
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Homemade Snow Slide in a Front Yard

Date: 03 01 1959
Description: Howard Schwartz (13) helps his brother Larry (9) climb aboard a flying saucer on top of the snow slide they built in their front yard at 4322 Wakefield Str...
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Homemade Snow Slide in a Front Yard

Date: 03 01 1958
Description: Larry (9) and Howard (13) Schwartz work at building a snow slide in their front yard at 4322 Wakefield Street.
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Sport Illustrated

Date: 1956
Description: An adult and a child riding a toboggan down the slide at Iverson Park.
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Looking Down the Toboggan Slide

Date: 02 06 1914
Description: View of the backyard toboggan slide from the second floor of the Lucy and W.A. Holt home. Several people are in the snow at the bottom of the wooden slide.
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Toboggan Slide in Backyard

Date: 02 06 1914
Description: A group of children and adults is on the wooden toboggan slide in the backyard of the Lucy and W.A. Holt home. One person on the top platform is holding a ...
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Skating at the Winter Club

Date: 01 05 1912
Description: The Holt children are skating in a line at an ice rink. The girls are holding fur hand warmers. There is a toboggan slide in the background. Names from lef...
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Sno-Tube

Date: 12 03 1990
Description: A young boy is going down a snowy hill on a Sno-Tube during the blizzard.
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We Saw You . . . Tobogganing at Olbrich

Date: 01 17 1958
Description: Children going downhill on a toboggan at Olbrich Park don't seem to mind if scarves are flying as they squeal, scream and shout. The toboggan is made of wo...
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We Saw You . . . Tobogganing at Olbrich

Date: 01 17 1958
Description: Children dressed in heavy winter clothing, on a wooden toboggan at the bottom of a steep slide erected at Olbrich Park.
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We Saw You . . . Tobogganing at Olbrich

Date: 01 17 1958
Description: A girl is beaming in anticipation while sitting at the front of a wooden toboggan at the top of a steep slide at Olbrich Park. Another child is behind her,...
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We Saw You . . . Tobogganing at Olbrich

Date: 01 17 1958
Description: A group of five happy children going down the hill on a wooden toboggan at Olbrich Park. The hill is a man-made slide, edged with small pine trees.
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Barbara Holt on the Sled

Date: 1929
Description: On a sunny winter day, Barbara Holt is ready to go sledding. She is sitting on the wooden sled and holding the rope in her left hand.
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The Winter Slide

Date: 02 29 1916
Description: Atop the winter slide, Lillian Wheeler is positioning herself on the sled. Her mother Anna Holt Wheeler is watching her, and a third person is standing beh...
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Sledding

Date: 1920
Description: Herbert Paul Brumder posing sitting on a sled with his children Herbert Edmund, center, and Barbara. They are in the front yard of their home at 2030 East ...
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Sledding

Date: 1924
Description: Two children, possibly Barbara, left, and Philip Brumder posing with a sled on the ice of Pine Lake. The children are dressed in similar outfits of stockin...
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Winter Sports

Date: 12 1909
Description: Children are playing winter sports, including sledding and snowshoeing, in the backyard. The slide and sleds are made of wood. The snowshoers are holding h...
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Pine Lake Home in Winter

Date: 1929
Description: A winter view of the lake-facing side of Herbert P. Brumder's shingle style summer house on Pine Lake. Two children, one lying on a sled, are posing in the...
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Ready to Go

Date: 1926
Description: Philip George Brumder, youngest child of Herbert P. and Margaret Bouer Brumder, is smiling broadly while posing sitting on a sled, at the top of a slide in...

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