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| Description: | Ringling Brothers-Barnum & Bailey circus performers gathered in front of a circus tent to view a solar eclipse. Some are wearing protective eyeglasses. |
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| Description: | A crew of people from the circus, possibly Ringling Brothers, Barnum, and Bailey, holding up their catch after a fishing trip. |
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| Description: | Lawrence Martin and Will Hotchkiss fishing off a pier early in the morning. |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Camp Randall Field from the top of Bascom Hall, with University Heights in the background. A crowd is in the stands at the stadium, and a ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin-Madison freshman women's basketball team in the gymnasium of Ladies Hall (now Chadbourne Hall). A man stands in the center holding ... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | A man and three boys in swimming suits at the beach. Presumably, Lake Michigan. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | A family campsite with a woman and three boys standing next to a canvass wall tent. In front of the tent is a campfire with pots, and a log with a hatchet ... |
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| Description: | The Gesell family in costume with broom, sword, and other props for a humorous picture. Family members identified as follows: Gerhard Jr. (drinking from pi... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Beatrice C. Gesell and Gerhard Gesell, Jr. play out-of-doors. While mother watches the baby sits on a pillow playing with a volume titled "Educational Pro... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Mixed doubles tennis game outdoors at the beginning of the 20th century, with a woman clad in long dress and upswept hair. A man wearing a tie is running b... |
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| Description: | Wagon number 20, advertising Albert M. Wetter's 3 Big Shows & World's Menagerie, is parked at a curb next to a private residence. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Ringling Brothers circus wagons, horses, and tents, with the Chicago skyline in the background. |
| Date: | 02 05 1942 |
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| Description: | Model of Doughboy Mills, Inc. and grain elevator. |
| Date: | 10 10 1941 |
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| Description: | Eight Girl Scouts are standing on and near a tree at the edge of Lake Mendota, with the Madison skyline in the background at Camp Indianola. |
| Date: | 12 1940 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin athletes trying on shoes in the Walk-Over Shoe Store, 8 East Mifflin Street. |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | The William Thompson family on the porch roof of their substantial brick bracket style house, with shutters, and with latticework at its foundation. A girl... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | The William Thompson family on the porch roof of their substantial brick bracket style house with shutters, and with latticework at its foundation. A girl ... |
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