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Children at Play in Rural Setting

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Description: Children and a few adults (possibly teachers) hold hands in a circle while other children stand by or swing under a tree in a rural setting. Horse-drawn ca...
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School Children Playing "Baby in the Hole"

Date: 05 20 1924
Description: Country school children playing "Baby in the Hole." There is a hand-pump in the background under trees.
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School Children Folk Dancing

Date: 1919
Description: School children dancing in a circle to music from a Victrola phonograph as women look on. The children are outdoors, possibly in a rural schoolyard.
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School Girls in Running Race

Date: 06 1916
Description: Six girls in a running race at the School Festival in Palos Park.
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Children Performing May-Pole Dance

Date: 1919
Description: School children standing ready to begin a May-pole dance.
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Recess at a One-Room School

Date: 09 1939
Description: Children play on a playground while a teacher watches from the porch of a one-room schoolhouse. The school building is still located in Grant County, on Hi...
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Clinton Youth at Highlander Folk School

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Description: Four girls hiking up a mountain as an excursion during the Clinton Youth session at Highlander Folk School. Clinton Youth was a Unitarian work camp from th...
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Children Playing Volleyball

Date: 1915
Description: A group of children playing volleyball during recess outside of a school building. Additional children are playing on a see-saw behind them.
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Girls Winding the Maypole

Date: 1913
Description: Large group of students and teachers gathered in a circle to watch young girls winding the maypole at an annual school festival in Belwood Park.
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Girls Around the Maypole with Flowers

Date: 1913
Description: Group of girls holding fabricated flowers around a maypole at an annual school festival in Belwood Park. A large group of fellow students and teachers look...
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Schoolchildren Playing Outdoors

Date: 05 20 1924
Description: Children play a game outdoors beside a rural school building.
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High Jump

Date: 06 13 1916
Description: Men and children, mostly boys, are crowding around a high jump hurdle during a school festival.
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Children Playing Baseball

Date: 1914
Description: Children standing in a schoolyard playing baseball. Two buildings are in the far background.
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The Common at New Salem Academy

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Description: Children play outside New Salem Academy, incorporated in 1795.The steeple of North Congregational Church, built in 1807, is visible beyond the school. Publ...
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Baker Paper Co. Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Baker Paper Company of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, paper manufacturers and distributors of Fun Ful playground and swimming pool equipment, with a...
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Album: Play School

Date: 1932
Description: Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House with images from the Play School: a group of children posing outdoors with buckets and a parasol, director...
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Page 12 from "A Few Glimpses of Stanley McCormick School"

Date: 02 08 1921
Description: Page from booklet with a photograph at top with caption that reads: "Some youngsters and a big campus snowball." Caption for photograph at bottom reads: "A...

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