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| Description: | View from a stone bridge towards Vilas Park, with children riding the carousel (merry-go-round) and a kiddie train adjacent to the lagoon. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Cyanotype print of Winnequah on Lake Monona with small buildings and three platforms for swings. A note on the back of the print reads: "The high swing was... |
| Date: | 09 18 1967 |
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| Description: | Ferris wheels and agricultural machinery are some of the things that attract fair-goers at the World Food Fair. |
| Date: | 08 01 1944 |
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| Description: | The Tilt-a-Whirl ride at the Madison East Side Festival, scene of an accident in which a teenage girl, Lois Bailey, suffered injuries after being thrown fr... |
| Date: | 08 01 1944 |
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| Description: | John J. Walsh, Madison attorney-at-law, standing next to the Tilt-a-Whirl ride at the Madison East Side Festival, the scene of an accident in which a teena... |
| Date: | 08 01 1944 |
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| Description: | Photograph of Lois Bailey, who was thrown from the Tilt-a-Whirl ride at the Madison East Side Festival, suffering injuries to her face and head. |
| Date: | 08 06 1944 |
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| Description: | Five speakers at the Gisholt Machine Company picnic, taken at the Blooming Grove carnival grounds. Left to right: Marion "Red" Borland, president of Gishol... |
| Date: | 08 31 1948 |
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| Description: | Madison Labor officials riding on a tiny train at the 6-day Labor Festival at Olbrich Park. |
| Date: | 07 1973 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising for the Dane County Jr. Fair at the Madison fairgrounds, July 18 through 22, 1973. Features a screen printed illustration of a clown, a ... |
| Date: | 02 27 1957 |
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| Description: | Four golfers with stand with their hands in their pockets while watching a fifth golfer, Frank (Moon) Molinaro power off a drive. The other four include, l... |
| Date: | 04 03 1961 |
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| Description: | A young female cast member poses on a suspended merry-go-round horse as she watches a rehearsal of the musical show, "Carousel". |
| Date: | 07 03 1953 |
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| Description: | After Governor Kohler signed legislation legalizing the sale of caps and cap pistols, many youth prepared to celebrate the Independence Day holiday with th... |
| Date: | 05 25 1961 |
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| Description: | A woman and three children standing under umbrellas behind a barrier in the street during Madison's Outdoor Living Week activities. |
| Date: | 07 17 1962 |
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| Description: | Night view of the full moon above the Tilt-A-Whirl ride prior to the opening day of the Dane County Junior Fair. |
| Date: | 07 02 1964 |
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| Description: | Three girls on the "Flying Coaster" carnival ride at the ESBMA festival on Kid's Day. |
| Date: | 07 02 1964 |
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| Description: | Four girls on the "Flying Coaster" carnival ride at the ESBMA festival on Kid's Day. |
| Date: | 06 30 1965 |
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| Description: | A young girl enjoying a ride during "Kids Day" at the East Side Business Men's Association Festival. About 200 children from Wisconsin Treatment Center, Re... |
| Date: | 07 2014 |
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| Description: | View across lawn towards a woman standing behind a fence at the base of the Ferris wheel waiting for customers at the La Fete de Marquette Festival. |
| Date: | 06 22 1978 |
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| Description: | A boy enjoying an amusement ride on swings at the East Side Businessmen's Club carnival at Milwaukee Street and Fair Oaks Avenue. Other riders, carnival-go... |
| Date: | 06 1961 |
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| Description: | A young girl is enjoying a carnival ride at Peppermint Park. She is probably a daughter of Lewis Arms. |
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