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| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Two men playing baseball for semi-pro teams in a Milwaukee ballpark. |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | A circus wagon, hitched to a truck cab, is parked across the street from three houses in a residential neighborhood. |
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| Description: | A circus sideshow performer sits outside a tent talking with two women performers of short stature. |
| Date: | 08 1901 |
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| Description: | Professor Oscar John Schendel is pictured with a violin and bow in a billboard advertising "Schendel's All Star Vaudeville, Big Three-Ringed Circus, and Ma... |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of a full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of four men sitting at a table playing cards, smoking cigarettes and ... |
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| Description: | Mary Virginia McCormick (1861-1941) playing croquet. Mary Virginia was the daughter of Chicago industrialist and inventor, Cyrus Hall McCormick. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | The Balsams at Camp Stella on Sand Island. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Florence (Bis) Lloyd Jones on a ship, possibly the City of St. Joseph, on Lake Michigan when the Richard Lloyd Jones family was moving from Madison ... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Sigurd F. Olson (April 4, 1899 - January 13, 1982) was an American author, environmentalist, and advocate for the protection of wilderness. This photograph... |
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| Description: | An football shaped sticker with the words "Green Bay Packers" over a map of Wisconsin, with Green Bay and Milwaukee identified. There is also an image of a... |
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| Description: | Front view of a trade card created by the Plano Manufacturing Company featuring an illustration of a cat climbing a screened window in pursuit of a mouse. ... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Alvin Elmer, age 15, holds a model airplane and coal truck that he made. His teacher at Farmer's Grove School wrote on the reverse of the photograph, "This... |
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| Description: | Artistic rendering of House on the Rock. A pine tree grows through the walkway or roof of the walkway on the right side. |
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| Description: | A harp sitting in a display case at House on the Rock. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View down trail towards a small group of women and girls hiking in Cathedral Woods on a sunny day. The old growth forest is made up of pines and hemlocks. |
| Date: | 08 1931 |
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| Description: | Standing on a sandy beach on the Island at Archibald Lake, Grant Stroh is holding up a string of fish. To the left of Stroh, a young woman, possibly his da... |
| Date: | 02 29 1916 |
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| Description: | Atop the winter slide, Lillian Wheeler is positioning herself on the sled. Her mother Anna Holt Wheeler is watching her, and a third person is standing beh... |
| Date: | 02 29 1916 |
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| Description: | Toddler Lillian Wheeler is tobogganing down the snowy chute with her mother Anna Holt Wheeler, and a third person is sitting behind Anna. There is a house ... |
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