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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Boys playing on makeshift diving board on the shore of Lake Monona at Brittingham Park. |
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| Description: | Children riding the carousel (merry-go-round) at Henry Vilas Zoo (Vilas Park Zoo), donated by the citizens of the Madison area. A stone bridge is in the ba... |
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| Description: | View from a stone bridge towards Vilas Park, with children riding the carousel (merry-go-round) and a kiddie train adjacent to the lagoon. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Group of children playing with a makeshift diving board at Brittingham Bay swimming hole. |
| Date: | 05 26 1945 |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of Boy Scouts, Troop #16 from Blessed Sacrament Church, at Four Lakes Council Camporee in Olin Park. |
| Date: | 05 26 1945 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of Boy Scouts, Troop #45 from Stoughton, gathered around a campfire, at Four Lakes Council Camporee in Olin Park. |
| Date: | 09 19 1937 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of Kayser Motors employees and their families on a picnic at Burrows Park. |
| Date: | 06 25 1935 |
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| Description: | Five legislators dressed in baseball uniforms shaking hands before a baseball game at Breese Stevens Field. L to R: Senator Sherman W. Wade, Antigo; Joseph... |
| Date: | 03 12 1935 |
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| Description: | Four young women tennis players greeting each other at the net at Tenney Park's new tennis courts. From left to right are: Alta Mae Freund, Violette Spence... |
| Date: | 07 29 1934 |
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| Description: | Children in costume as king, queen and attendants at the Kiddie Camp Fair. |
| Date: | 07 23 1933 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of men on the Montgomery Ward's baseball team in uniform. |
| Date: | 08 22 1931 |
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| Description: | Group portrait taken in Vilas Park of children, and a few adults, some in costume, from the Lincoln Street-West Side area, who put on a circus to raise mon... |
| Date: | 07 24 1931 |
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| Description: | Children in costume with go cars from Brittingham Park waiting to participate in Lantern parade. |
| Date: | 07 16 1930 |
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| Description: | Group portrait Texas Company (Texaco) picnic at Olin Park. |
| Date: | 05 21 1930 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of Madison College students on a picnic at Vilas Park. |
| Date: | 05 21 1930 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of Madison College students on a picnic at Vilas Park. Alternate view "Madison College picnic, Vilas Park, May 21, 1930" typed on negative. |
| Date: | 07 16 1946 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the Knights of Columbus baseball team in uniform. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a man leading a circus elephant on Main Street. On the opposite side of the street is a crowd watching from behind the iron fence on the C... |
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| Description: | Snapshot by Madison butcher Earl Omen of elephants parading past the Monona Avenue gate of the third Wisconsin State Capitol. |
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| Description: | Crowd gathered in the park near the North Wing of the Third Wisconsin State Capitol watching aerial performer descend a wire attached to the roof of the bu... |
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