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Camp Randall Field

Date: 1906
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 ...
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Women Playing Basketball

Date: 1900
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 ...
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Playing Tennis

Date: 1900
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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Power Mower

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Description: Cutting the grass with a large lawn mower near the University of Wisconsin-Madison Field House (currently Camp Randall Stadium).
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Lucile Wilcox and Hazel Anderson, as Gymnasts

Date: 1905
Description: Lucile Wilcox with her friend Hazel Anderson, both members of the Menomonie High School class of 1905, depicted as gymnasts, on a set of parallel bars. Par...
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Buggy Race with Fred Pabst

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Description: Two men are racing small horse-drawn buggies on a dirt track at an exhibition at the Pabst Farms. The man on the left is identified as Fred Pabst, Milwauke...
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Motorcycle Races

Date: 1914
Description: Elevated view of crowd and observation tower at motorcycle races at the Dane County Fairgrounds. Men on raised platform are judging the races.
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Aerial View of Wisconsin State Fairgrounds

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Description: Aerial view of the Wisconsin State Fairgrounds, including the grandstands, racetrack, and parking lot.
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Recreation Building at Whispering Pines Girls Camp

Date: 1934
Description: View across field of a large one-story wooden building with a large stone chimney on the right side. This is the Recreation building at Whispering Pines Gi...
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Grandstand Crowd

Date: 1935
Description: Crowd of men, women, and children standing in front of, or sitting in, the grandstand watching a baseball game at the Iron County Fair.
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Ashland Baseball Team

Date: 1935
Description: Group portrait outdoors of thirteen boys standing in a line wearing baseball hats and baseball uniforms with a large "A" on their shirts. One man and a you...
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Interior of Gymnasium

Date: 1930
Description: Elevated view of gymnasium/theater with vaulted ceiling, large windows along both sides, and a small stage with chairs. There are built-in cupboards or dra...
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Exterior of Gymnasium

Date: 1930
Description: The brick gymnasium is on a small rise with trees on a hill in the background. There is a paved sidewalk in front of the steps to the entrance.
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Scene on Grounds, Meadow Brook Hotel, Highway Lucky 13

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Description: Elevated view over the volleyball court of the grounds at the Meadow Brook Hotel. A footbridge is across a stream on the right. A group of people are stand...
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037 - Several Campers Playing Tennis

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Description: Doubles tennis match in play on tennis court in a wooded area. Original caption notes: "Our three most popular Land Sports are Tennis, Archery, and Basebal...
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Tennis Players on Court

Date: 1910
Description: Group portrait of a line of people, some holding tennis rackets, posed in a line behind a net on a dirt tennis court between North 3rd and 4th Street. Hous...
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Smelt Carnival Wrestling Match

Date: 04 1939
Description: A man, wearing galoshes, is standing in a sports ring and dumping fish out of a box labeled Lester Fisher Fisheries. People are in the background behind th...

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