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| Date: | 06 23 1950 |
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| Description: | Glenn "Pat" Holmes (left) and Frank Blau, directors of the Madison summer playground program, are shown checking equipment out to the 30 playgrounds which ... |
| Date: | 07 26 1950 |
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| Description: | Children stand around a picnic table while doing activities at the Lakeview playground. |
| Date: | 08 06 1957 |
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| Description: | The Stage Coach and truck used for the Madison Youth Summer Theater driving past a playground. Students who watched the performance are waving to the actor... |
| Date: | 07 26 1950 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of children with their pets at the Lake Edge playground. |
| Date: | 08 06 1957 |
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| Description: | The Stage Coach, presented to the teen-aged theatrical group in 1951, is parked at the Marquette School playground. Performers and students in attendance a... |
| Date: | 06 28 1950 |
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| Description: | Sherry Klein (right) playing a game of checkers with Janice Wirioff at the Milton-Charter park playground as Edward Lambert, Kenneth and Shirley Bloom are ... |
| Date: | 07 10 1950 |
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| Description: | The playground director from the board of education's recreation division reads a story to children at the Wirth Court playground during storybook hour. |
| Date: | 10 25 1957 |
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| Description: | Six officials pose for a group portrait at the dedication of a playground structure made of concrete in the shape of a castle; it is sponsored by the Jayce... |
| Date: | 06 29 1957 |
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| Description: | Two boys playing "washers" game at a city playground. |
| Date: | 06 28 1950 |
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| Description: | Frances Niles hands out a ball to three boys at the Milton-Charter park playgound. The boys are, left to right: Ross Parisi, Don Brashi, and Marvin Bloom. |
| Date: | 08 16 1950 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Irene M. Borman, playground director at the Milton-Charter park for twelve years, sitting at a sand box with youngsters Joane Bruno, Kay Kerwin, and T... |
| Date: | 08 16 1950 |
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| Description: | A group of kids play a paper game "Air Defense" with two playground directors at a table in Vilas Park. Sitting around the table, from left, are: Nancy Bri... |
| Date: | 07 28 1950 |
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| Description: | Boys play baseball at the Franklin School playground. The activity is part of the summer program sponsored by the board of education recreational division ... |
| Date: | 06 29 1957 |
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| Description: | Two kids at an outdoor table in a shelter playing checkers with three more looking on and "kibitzing." |
| Date: | 10 30 1950 |
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| Description: | Nakoma School kindergarten children standing on the playground while playing cowboys and Indians. Three boys are wearing Indian headdresses. |
| Date: | 08 03 1954 |
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| Description: | Ronda Pyne holding the reins of a pony at the Franklin School playground while wearing a cowboy hat. |
| Date: | 06 28 1951 |
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| Description: | Children playing outside the nursery school classroom at the First Unitarian Society Meeting House. The building was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. |
| Date: | 06 24 1952 |
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| Description: | Constance Raznikow playing on a teeter totter at the Shorewood Hills Play School, a summer recreation program at Shorewood Hills parks and schools. |
| Date: | 06 29 1957 |
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| Description: | Group of children on a city playground playing dodge ball (called "ball tag"). The boy on far left is finishing a toss. |
| Date: | 08 16 1957 |
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| Description: | Playground director, Phil Gottschalk, dressed as a cowboy, showing off his guns to young costumed onlookers at the recent Truax Field playground party. |
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