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| Date: | 06 29 1932 |
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| Description: | Hommel's Star Food Store at 606 S. Park Street, with promotional truck in front of store, and children looking on. Vehicle (Ballyhoo Truck) has a painted s... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | A female snake charmer with the Cole Brothers Circus, watched by two children. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Circus performer Harriet Hodgini, sits on the gate of a truck helping Otto Griebling, a circus clown, apply his makeup. |
| Date: | 04 11 1934 |
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| Description: | Sitting at a table, Doris Witter of Oconto Falls, is reading the palm of Helen Haldiman from Monticello. Both are University of Wisconsin students. |
| Date: | 08 04 1933 |
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| Description: | Arthur Santell is pulling three Pontiac automobiles, each with a man on the running board, with his teeth in front of General Auto Service and Henry Motor ... |
| Date: | 10 07 1932 |
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| Description: | Municipal golf pro with "armless" Fanchon and Marco golfer. |
| Date: | 11 02 1930 |
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| Description: | A woman is putting while three other dwarves, or little people, are watching at the indoor Evergreen Miniature Golf Course, 26-28 N. Carroll Street. |
| Date: | 08 23 1930 |
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| Description: | An audience in the grandstand at the Dane County Fair watches two men in a stunt automobile advertising the RKO film, "Dixiana." |
| Date: | 11 09 1934 |
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| Description: | Adele Nelson's Dancing Elephants. Three elephants (one with a dog standing on top of it) stand at the side of an International truck. There is a large barn... |
| 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 ... |
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