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| 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. |
| Date: | 06 1961 |
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| Description: | Mamie and Rita Arms, daughters of Lewis Arms, sharing a midway ride at Peppermint Park. |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Production still from the 1928 film "The Crowd." Two cameramen are sitting on a wooden slide behind a small camera. People are sitting at the top of the sl... |
| Date: | 06 19 1925 |
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| Description: | Line drawing of a truck at a fairground. A delivery man is carrying a case of soft drinks, and a boy is standing on the left and watching him. In the backg... |
| Date: | 07 11 2015 |
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| Description: | View looking up towards people riding the yellow, red, and blue painted Ferris wheel. A sign on the right reads: "The Big Eli Ferris Wheel." |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Four girls are sitting in a tilt-a-whirl amusement ride. In the background people are riding on a Ferris wheel. |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | People are riding on a Ferris wheel above a crowd of people walking around a fairgrounds. |
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| Description: | Green, yellow, and orange lights are illuminating carnival rides at night. |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of two boys riding a ski lift high above a crowd of people and a stage below them a the bottom of a hill. The crowd is waiting for the musica... |
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| Description: | View of people riding the Kiddie Train at the Vilas Park Zoo. People behind the train are standing and watching the train near a fence, and there is a came... |
| Date: | 02 27 1958 |
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| Description: | Horses from the Vilas Park merry-go-round are being checked before returning to summer use by Angelo Traino (left), a city parks department employee, and J... |
| Date: | 06 07 1958 |
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| Description: | Workmen painting the merry-go-round at the Vilas Park Zoo. |
| Date: | 06 21 1958 |
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| Description: | Attending the grand opening of the Vilas Park merry-go-round are, (L-R): Lawrence H. Fitzpatrick, Wisconsin State Journal managing editor; Robert C.... |
| Date: | 06 21 1958 |
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| Description: | Professor Ray S. Owen, 5807 Winnequah Road (L), and Alderman Harrison L. Garner, Madison 13th Ward (R), enjoying a ride on the Vilas Park merry-go-round du... |
| Date: | 06 21 1958 |
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| Description: | An unidentified boy enjoying his first ride on the new Vilas Park merry-go-round during the merry-go-round's grand opening. |
| Date: | 06 21 1958 |
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| Description: | Madison Park Superintendent James G. Marshall throwing the switch to turn on the new Vilas Park merry-go-round. Show (L-R) with Marshall are park crew memb... |
| Date: | 06 21 1958 |
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| Description: | Children and parents waiting their turn to ride the new Vilas Park merry-go-round during the grand-opening event for the ride on June 21, 1958. In the back... |
| Date: | 06 21 1958 |
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| Description: | Children ride horses on the new merry-go-round at Vilas Park. The grand opening for the merry-go-round occurred on June 21, 1958. |
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