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| Description: | Fred and Ella Bradna, equestrian director and performer for Ringling Brothers, Barnum & Bailey. There are several other performers and a dog, relaxing in t... |
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| Description: | Excursion boats at the Wisconsin Dells. Boats Eolah and Alexander Mitchell at mooring, with distinctive Dells rock formations in the backgrou... |
| Date: | 08 24 1968 |
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| Description: | Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Kress, dressed in lederhosen, enjoy beer and sweet corn at the Mid-summer Festival. |
| Date: | 09 1980 |
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| Description: | A competitor in the State Cow Chip Tossing Contest has 30 seconds to choose her cow chip. The cow chips are specially made from cow manure. |
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| Description: | Bathing suit model posing standing in a rowboat, landing an eight-foot plastic Musky (Muskellunge). |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Two bathing suit-clad women demonstrating their Evinrude motorboat on a Wisconsin lake. |
| Date: | 04 21 1957 |
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| Description: | An industrious family cleans their motorboat which is parked in the driveway. |
| Date: | 08 31 1909 |
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| Description: | A coaching party of festively clad men, women, and children departing for the Annual Scottish Games sponsored by the St. Andrews Society. Some participants... |
| Date: | 08 06 1934 |
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| Description: | Reverend Richard Kiefer of Sacred Heart monastery in Hales Corners, Wisconsin, joins in the bingo competition at a Catholic picnic, as women and children a... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A USO volunteer challenges an enthusiastic soldier to a friendly bowling match. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Gypsy Rose Lee (aka Louise Hovick, 1914-1970) with a large muskie she caught in a northern Wisconsin lake. |
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| Description: | Townspeople fleeing the Great Peshtigo Fire of 1871. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Four men and three women posing on Hull's tennis court. |
| Date: | 11 08 1934 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin coed, Cecil McLaren, from Cincinnati, Ohio, holding tennis racket, co-champion in Western girls' doubles and finalist in National g... |
| Date: | 06 23 1931 |
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| Description: | Four University of Wisconsin-Madison coeds sunbathing on the roof of Ann Emery Hall, 265 Langdon Street, an independent women's dormitory named for the fir... |
| Date: | 09 1939 |
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| Description: | Children play on a playground while a teacher watches from the porch of a one-room schoolhouse. The school building is still located in Grant County, on Hi... |
| Date: | 08 08 2008 |
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| Description: | Young dancers preparing to take the stage at Irishfest stand outside near a tent. |
| Date: | 2007 |
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| Description: | Women in costume smiling and clapping in Oktoberfest parade. |
| Date: | 2008 |
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| Description: | A female bike rider looks over at police officer riding a horse at Riverside Park. |
| Date: | 10 2007 |
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| Description: | Kathy Vehrenkamp, Mrs. Oktoberfest 1991, walking down the sidewalk in costume and proudly displaying her ribbon. |
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