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| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Warren Spahn, famous left-handed pitcher of the Milwaukee Braves baseball team, completes a pitch to the batter. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Men in cowboy hats driving International Harvester tractors through an exhibition tent as part of the "Parade of Progress" at the Indiana State Fair as par... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for the Fast Hitch features a cartoon of men performing the "nationally famous Fast-Hitch square dance" on Farmall tractors. A photograp... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Harness racers are shown in action at the Wisconsin State Fair Park, with an audience watching from the grandstand. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter view from front left of an International R-110 Station Wagon parked on a lawn. In the background is a group of people enjoying a picnic. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | View across water towards the Sturgeon Bay Canal Lighthouse, with a group of people in a motorboat in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Madison Mayor, George Forrester, seated in the front row of the audience at the Ringling Brothers Circus. Clowns entertain the children seated near Forrest... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Children playing outdoors at the Packinghouse Workers summer picnic. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Ticket for the All-American Soap Box Derby in Akron, Ohio, held on August 9, 1953. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Steiner and their two sons of Argyle, Wisconsin, a... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Jim Lunder and another man dressed in heavy winter clothing sit on the iceboat "Fritz" on frozen Lake Monona (?). |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Photographic holiday card from the Q.J. O'Sullivan family. The children of the family are outdoors and are all dressed in winter clothes. Two of the childr... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Buddy Brown poses outdoors standing on a box wearing boxing gloves and trunks. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | A young Jimmy Clark dressed as Baby New Year for 1954. He stands on top of a case of Adler Bräu wearing cowboy boots, underwear, and a sash reading 1954. H... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | This mid 20th century map of Vilas County and northeastern Oneida County, Wisconsin, shows the township and range grid, sections, cities and villages, rail... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Wisconsin State Fair, with fair information in fonts of varying sizes and styles, as well as red and blue bars on the left-hand side of t... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Two-fold, imprinted invitation in gold ink on off-white card stock to the annual Ice Chipper event. The cover graphic is humorous play on the fisherman as ... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Two-fold, imprinted invitation in black ink on off-white card stock to the annual Ice Chipper event. Inside text are the poetic details for the Hookeree fi... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Football player catching a football, as the referee is officiating and defensive players are running up alongside the one handling the ball. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | A view of the back of the Monona Golf Course Club House (aka Nathaniel and Harriet Dean House, built in 1856) 4718 Monona Drive. The large screened porch w... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Mary Griggs is sitting in the stern of a canoe paddling the Namakagon River with a male friend sitting in the bow. Mary is wearing shorts and a white blous... |
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