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Introduction
The play and leisure activities
of children have always performed several functions: They help socialize
children by allowing them safe arenas in which to mimic the adult behaviors
they witness every day (by playing "army" or "house"); they provide opportunities
for interaction among peers, and they create an alternative to the world
created by adult rules and plans for the future. Of course, children have
participated in organized pastimes at the same time that they make their
own fun; they also tend to rely on homemade as much as commercially produced
toys and games. "Play and Leisure" will show the ways that the toys and
games played with by Milwaukee children reflected ethnic traditions, technological
change, and attitudes about gender, race, and class.
Play
and Leisure Photo Gallery
Special
topics
Special topics are packages of
documents and images we've found interesting in our research. If you're
wondering where to start, you can select a topic and explore.
A Newspaper Community for Milwaukee Kids: The Milwaukee Journal's Boys and Girls Club
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The Teske brothers pause outside their West Side home, ca. 1950s. Courtesy Robert Teske.
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