Play and Leisure Gallery

Children in Urban America Phot Gallery Play and Leisure

All photographs are from the collections of the Milwaukee County Historical Society unless otherwise noted, and may not be used without the permission of the Milwaukee County Historical Society.

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Boy on bike, undated.	Boy Scout, ca. First World War.	Kids in boat, undated.	Boys playing in front of the Home for Dependent Children, Wauwatosa, undated.	Baseball team at Home for Dependent Children, Wauwatosa, undated.	Monarchs baseball team, 1907.

7th and 8th grade boys from 2nd Avenue School playing "Poison Snake," ca. 1910s.	Playing near Bartlett Avenue School, 1922.	Children playing at the Home for Dependent Children, Wauwatosa, undated.	Children playing at the Home for Dependent Children, Wauwatosa, undated.	Ed Ferguson plays with his goat and cart, 1924.	Henry Clay School girls baseball team, 1924.

Henry Clay School boys baseball team, 1924.	A baseball team in a studio photograph, undated.	Children, perhaps from the Home for Dependent Children, swimming.	Unidentified child in World War One garb, undated.	Harry Ohm plays in the backyard with his cat "Patsy," ca. 1920s.	Lester Earl Kesserling playing in his airplane, 1926.

Fourth Street School baseball team, Milwaukee Public Schools Extension Department Grammar School Baseball League Champion, 1926.	Girls' basketball team, 1896.	Greek adults and children pose after a costume pageant, 1909.	Milwaukee children in First World War uniforms.	Two young women dressed as First World War doughboys, perhaps in honor of friends or relatives in Battery D.	Milwaukee children playing "army," First World War era.

The Winkler boys on toy horses, ca. 1910s.	A South Side Young People's Socialist League gathering, 1916.	Boys take a break from playing football, ca. 1920s.	Christmas in the McDonald household, ca. 1920s.	Christmas in the McDonald household, ca. 1920s.	The Milwaukee Hungarian Athletic Club included child as well as adult members, ca. 1920s.

Swimmers at Red Arrow Park, downtown Milwaukee, 1924.	Evelyn Marggraff ice skating on the Milwaukee River, undated.	Children's games at 1930 Socialist Party picnic.	Boys' softball game at 1930 Socialist Party picnic.	Gerald Meyer and his pony, 1936.	Child Christmas carolers with their minister, Gustav Stearns, ca. 1930s.

Children's performance at 1939 Socialist Party Christmas gathering.	Hanging out, ca. 1940s.	Scene from a toy loan center administered by the federal and county governments in the 1930s.	Scene from a toy loan center administered by the federal and county governments in the 1930s.	Scene from a toy loan center administered by the federal and county governments in the 1930s.