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| Date: | 06 17 1987 |
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| Description: | Kids smiling gleefully on the Tilt-a-Whirl carnival ride while workers manage the controls in the background on a sunny summer day. |
| Date: | 07 26 1966 |
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| Description: | Several young people pause behind the fence to look at a midway ride in action at the Washington County Junior Fair. |
| 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 20 1952 |
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| Description: | Boys wave from the passenger cars of Uncle Bob's train, while a crowd watches the amusement park ride at the Wisconsin State Fair. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of crowds strolling through the Wisconsin State Fairgrounds. In the background is a Ferris wheel, and a banner encouraging fair goers to "tal... |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Fairgoers ride a tractor-drawn passenger wagon at the Fair. In the background is the Sky King roller coaster. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Exhibits of farm equipment and the gasoline engines that would have powered some of them at the Wisconsin State Fair. A Ferris wheel is visible in the back... |
| 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 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: | 07 03 1912 |
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| Description: | Five men standing in a field with harvested wheat and straw. There is a rollercoaster in the background on the left. |
| Date: | 09 01 1921 |
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| Description: | Crowds of people walking, with amusement rides in the backround. Presumably the Wisconsin State Fair. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Pabst Whitefish Bay Resort on the shores of Lake Michigan, with crowds of individuals walking up the numerous paths that lead to the resor... |
| Date: | 12 09 1924 |
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| Description: | A McCormick-Deering stationary engine powers a Ferris wheel at a fair. A sign advertising: "Princess Violet, Lilliputian" is in the background. |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of an audience gathering around the "Girlesk Revue" stage at the Iowa State Fair. The signs in the background read: "Roller Skaters; Bicycle ... |
| Date: | 08 22 1929 |
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| Description: | A crowd of spectators gathers around a Farmall Regular tractor on display at the Tri-State Fair. |
| 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: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Two men an International D-15 truck equipped with a calliope and carousel horses. The truck was owned by Consumers' Advertising Company of Chicago. |
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