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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of parade with a band of clowns. One young boy dressed as a clown at the front is holding the American flag, and another clown holds a sign t... |
| Date: | 08 1993 |
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| Description: | "Bungee jumpers at Wisconsin State Fair, Milwaukee." |
| Date: | 05 01 1957 |
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| Description: | Lillian Simonson, Altrusa Club member and Marquette School principal, is shown giving a preview of a wishing well to youths Jerry Bailey and Janet Dahl. |
| Date: | 01 22 1944 |
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| Description: | Sergeant Walter Schaefer of Port Washington, Wisconsin, swings from a rope over an extremely muddy road just after a truck has just driven through at a mil... |
| Date: | 01 25 1959 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with brothers Greg and Mark Hennen of 5709 Midmoor Road standing in their snow fort and holding snowballs at the ready the day following a fiv... |
| Date: | 10 24 1930 |
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| Description: | A line of clowns and assorted pantomime animals dressed up for Cheese Day. The animals include; a horse, a woodchuck, a bear, a giraffe and an elephant. A ... |
| Date: | 08 16 1952 |
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| Description: | Dave and Carol Leudtke react to some high jinks done to their vehicle. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Men on wagons carrying large boiler, etc., posing in sham-battle horseplay, probably in Cross Plains. In the background is a bluff. |
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| Description: | Wilbur J. Cohen holds an ax over his brother's neck. His brother has put his head on a log stump. The location is Wilbur Cohen's home in Silver Spring, Mar... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Crowd scene and circus barker in front of “The Electric Era Shows” tent, probably at a fair or carnival. A smaller tent in the background on the left has a... |
| Date: | 07 04 1954 |
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| Description: | Joanna Winch, Tony Hanson and Randy Winch were just like hundreds of other city children who love to be in a parade on the Fourth of July. |
| Date: | 2011 |
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| Description: | A young lady kissing a stuffed Badger on game day as two friends are watching and laughing. Behind the group is a red automobile. |
| Date: | 09 07 1956 |
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| Description: | Children watch a clown with a snake at the parade during the Midwest Shrine Convention. |
| Date: | 09 07 1956 |
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| Description: | Pamella Hattleberg talks with a clown at the Midwest Shrine parade. |
| Date: | 07 04 1900 |
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| Description: | View from side of a Fourth of July Procession of five people standing in a line carrying various types of weapons and dressed in festive clothing. There is... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | In her journal from India, Carrie mentions cock fights, describing them as a "barbaric form of entertainment". Here is shown a group of men watching one su... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Four men wearing head wraps posing in a wide-legged stance. A group of people stand behind a fence in the left background watching. Carrie describes in her... |
| Date: | 07 1954 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of clowns standing beside and on a car decorated with the Zor Shriners logo. On the front of the car a large horn labeled "Zor Shrine" is mo... |
| Date: | 07 01 1965 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of George Parisi and Henry Turville, Lions club members, setting up a fireworks fund barrel at Vilas Park to collect donations for the annual... |
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