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Ringling Brothers Circus Winter Quarters

Date: 1915
Description: View of the Ringling Brothers Circus winter quarters, including the print shop and the wardrobe building.
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Water Street

Date: 1915
Description: View of Water Street, the winter home of the Ringling Brothers Circus. The whole street was circus property.
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Panama-Pacific Exposition

Date: 1915
Description: Elevated view of crowd on Palm Avenue at the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Fransisco, California, 1915. Several ornate buildings can be seen near the cr...
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Rocky Roost

Date: 1915
Description: Rocky Roost, a vacation home west of Governor's Island, in Lake Mendota. Frank Lloyd Wright served as the architect in the remodeling (in 1901 and 1903) of...
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Fisherman's Shanty

Date: 1915
Description: Elevated view of a fisherman's shanty along the shoreline surrounded by rocks. At the shoreline is a man and numerous boats pulled ashore. Caption reads: "...
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Playing Horseshoes at National Military Home

Date: 1915
Description: A group of veterans pose while playing horseshoes at the National Military Home, which opened in 1867. In the background, the top of the National Military ...
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Group at Apostle Island

Date: 1915
Description: View looking towards shoreline of three men and one woman setting up a fire on the rocks for a picnic. There is a picnic basket on the log on the right, an...
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Picnic for Convalescing Soldiers

Date: 1915
Description: German soldiers having a picnic outside of the "Kaisereck" convalescence home for wounded soldiers on Hartenbergstrasse 16 (Berlin). Soldiers having coffee...

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