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Edgewood Kindergarten

Date: 08 26 1932
Description: Edgewood kindergarten play corner with children, including Jack Kurth, Alex McCormick, Kathleen Kellogg, Dorothy Fox, Bobbie McCormick, and Patsy McCarthy....
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Sleepover

Date: 06 21 1967
Description: Young female children celebrate a sleepover while four girls in bed watch another girl toss a pillow in the air. They are smiling gleefully while the pill...
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Boy with Radio Kit

Date: 10 02 1954
Description: Boy with radio kit, experimenting with a two tube radio receiver.
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Playing House

Date: 01 16 1964
Description: A young girl watches out the door of her playhouse while a young boy retrieves letters from the play mailbox.
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Telephone Conversation

Date: 03 27 1963
Description: A three-year-old girl uses a toy telephone, and carries on an imaginary conversation at a preschool.
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The Riesen Family

Date: 05 28 1955
Description: The Riesen family, John, Jeanne, Linda and Jon, playing in their home.
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Recreation Room, 302 N. Brooks Street

Date: 04 26 1934
Description: Joseph J. and Grace Fitzpatrick house, 302 N. Brooks Street, with a view of the recreation room in the basement.
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Boy Playing with Toy Airplanes

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Description: Young boy with toy airplanes and an aircraft carrier.
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Two Children Play with International Harvester Toys

Date: 05 15 1927
Description: A young boy and girl play with International Harvester toys in front of a fireplace and feather Christmas tree. The toys include a truck, tractor, thresher...
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Neighborhood House

Date: 10 06 1947
Description: Children engaged in an art project at the Neighborhood House, 768 West Washington Avenue across from Brittingham Park. Pictured left to right are: Marion D...
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Boy with Cream Separator and Toys

Date: 07 16 1929
Description: A young boy is sitting on the floor next to an International Harvester cream separator while playing with a toy tractor and plow. A toy International truck...
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Boy with International Harvester Toys

Date: 1929
Description: A boy is sitting on a tile floor to play with die-cast toys of International Harvester machines, including an all-steel thresher, Farmall tractors, McCormi...
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Child Playing with International Harvester Toys

Date: 07 16 1929
Description: A boy is sitting on the floor near an International Harvester cream separator to play with toy versions of International Harvester machines, including Farm...
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Sherif and Mohammed El Gindi

Date: 08 28 1948
Description: Sherif, 4, and Mohammed, El Gindi, 5, sitting on an Oriental rug brought from Egypt by their parents. Their father, Ibrahim, was chosen by the Egyptian gov...
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Madison Interracial Sewing Group's Children

Date: 02 15 1949
Description: Children at play while their mothers mended clothes for the Quaker relief project on a regular Tuesday session at the home of Mrs. Hilton E. (Lillian) Hann...
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Dick on Rocking Horse

Date: 1913
Description: Richard Lloyd Jones "Dick" rides a rocking horse.
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Children with Christmas Tree

Date: 1902
Description: Cary and Everetta Bass with their Christmas tree. Cary holds a toy horn; Everetta holds a doll.
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Three Children Painting At A Table

Date: 1939
Description: Three boys painting with watercolors at a folding table. They appear to be on a porch.
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Boys Day at the Pool

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Description: Boys Day at an indoor pool. A view from the balcony on the second floor overlooks the boys swimming in the pool below.
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Lowell School Playroom

Date: 1927
Description: A group of children sit cross-legged on the floor of the kindergarten room at Lowell School. Dorothy Browne is the child sitting in the chair facing them. ...

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