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| Date: | 05 28 1987 |
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| Description: | A Parks Department employee pushes a mower up a steep hill to keep Buchner Park maintained. |
| Date: | 09 06 1988 |
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| Description: | Family members gather around a campfire to enjoy biscuits and sausages cooked on the grill at Naga-Waukee Park. |
| Date: | 05 25 1928 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of ESBMA (East Side Business Men's Association) men posing after clearing field for playground at Burr Jones Field, 1800 E. Washington Avenu... |
| Date: | 05 25 1928 |
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| Description: | ESBMA (East Side Business Men's Association) men clearing area for playground at Burr Jones Field at 1800 E. Washington Street. |
| Date: | 04 28 1945 |
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| Description: | Annual University of Wisconsin-Madison student work day project located at Picnic Point. Shown posing together are the chosen "blue jeans" king and queen f... |
| Date: | 07 05 1945 |
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| Description: | Lewis Flisram, age 79, started working for the Madison Parks Commission in 1897. He worked there until 1911. He left to work for his mother for a period of... |
| Date: | 06 28 1949 |
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| Description: | Four girls are gathered at a picnic table while making stew at Brownie Day Camp at Burrows Park. A lake is in the background. Left to right: Gloria Branden... |
| Date: | 07 06 1950 |
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| Description: | Girl Scouts carry water up a hill to their camp site at Camp Greenwood, a day camp at Picnic Point for Intermediate Girl Scouts between the ages of 10 and ... |
| Date: | 03 13 1915 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Man in work clothes holding a shovel loaded with dirt while another man watches in the background. The men were Civilian Conservation Corps workers at Devi... |
| Date: | 08 1967 |
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| Description: | Mike Zitke, 14, of 4737 N. 78th Court holding a broom and wearing a shirt reading "We like it here. Milwaukee: Let's keep it clean." Zitke received the shi... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View of a lily pond in Mitchell Park. A man is working among the plants along the shoreline in the middle background. |
| Date: | 07 29 1960 |
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| Description: | Stanley Hill, vice-president of the Male Garden Club of Madison, posing beside some flowers at Olbrich Park Botanical Gardens. |
| Date: | 07 08 1954 |
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| Description: | Judy Moore (right) watches intently as Gale Cnare snips off pieces of crepe paper to be used in decorating the vehicles for the children's parade in Conkli... |
| Date: | 02 03 1956 |
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| Description: | Hill captain Werner Schorr smooths snow near the base of the ski jump scaffold during the Blackhawk Ski Club's annual jumping tournament at their Tomahawk ... |
| Date: | 06 24 1998 |
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| Description: | Bill Casper of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, standing in front of his iconic Green Bay Packers ice shanty. with some of his sturgeon spearing gear during the 199... |
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| Description: | Stereograph of three men having a picnic in a clearing in the woods at Devil's Lake or nearby. One man is sitting against a tree, another is kneeling and t... |
| Date: | 08 06 1960 |
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| Description: | A zookeeper poses with a net and three large box traps. Thirty-eight Rhesus monkeys escaped from the basement of the Vilas zoo monkey house on August 4, 19... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | New snow on the steps at Devil's Lake, with a broom leaning on the hand rail. Trees are in the background. |
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