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| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | View looking over Fort Dells, with cars parked in the foreground. |
| Date: | 05 16 1958 |
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| Description: | Milwaukee Braves pitcher Lew Burdette and unidentified woman, probably taken during spring training 1958. Burdette is wearing silly eyeglasses. |
| Date: | 09 21 1967 |
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| Description: | Cover of "The Free Statesman," an underground newspaper, depicting a clown figure dancing with a woman, and standing on top of a dove. |
| Date: | 08 1972 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising for the Clyde Beatty-Cole Brothers Circus, advertised as the World's largest, which took place August 30, 1972 at the Madison Fair Groun... |
| Date: | 08 1972 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising for the Clyde Beatty-Cole Brothers combined Circus, which took place August 30, 1972 at the Madison Fair Grounds in Madison, Wisconsin. ... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Poster promoting summer performances by The Wisconsin Peoples History Players. High contrast graphic depiction of dancers and jugglers in front of a blue b... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of crowd of people outside of the grandstands at the Wisconsin State Fair grounds. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | The exterior of carnival banners with people gathered in front of them. Probably depicting "Gay Paree" at the State Fair. |
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| Description: | Children gathered in front steps and on a platform with large painted banners at a street carnival, possibly the State Fair. There is also a stand with an ... |
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| Description: | Children playing on the playground at the State Fair. The children form lines to climb up the two tall ladders to slide down a pole. Several children are n... |
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| Description: | A night photograph of 'obscene' slot-machines in a penny arcade. On display are pennants on the wall, including "Iowa" and "Nebraska." Another machine hold... |
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| Description: | A group of young boys gathered at the steps at the front of a house engaging in some kind of game, perhaps a game of chance. One boy is sitting above them ... |
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| Description: | Exterior of one of Milwaukee's largest dance halls, with a sign on the front reading: "Dreamland." There are other buildings along the street and people wa... |
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| Description: | A group of girls playing jacks on a city sidewalk. All the girls are wearing dresses, and two infants are present, one in a carriage and one in the lap of ... |
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| Description: | Group of children at the Cherry Street branch of the Evansville Public Library using steropticons to view stereograph images. Bookshelves line the back wal... |
| Date: | 1882 |
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| Description: | A view of the left side of the Elephant Hotel, constructed in the shape of an elephant with small windows punctuating the side and a covered open-air obser... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | View along boardwalk, with people sitting, and other people walking. Buildings are along the left, and on the right is a lifeguard tower that looks down o... |
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| Description: | View of an acrobatic team on a trapeze. The act, performed on a boardwalk at Midland Beach by the Flying Cromwells, is observed by a large gathering of peo... |
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| Description: | People gather around a bench in front of Casino Amusement Park. A roller coaster, pavilion, and ticket booth stand behind them. |
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| Description: | View of the Coney Island Amusement Park featuring a large garden and lawn, a roller coaster, a windmill, several buildings and amusements, and crowds of pe... |
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