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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: | 07 20 1944 |
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| Description: | Young people dance in the street on Bowen Court as part of city Recreation Department summer activities. Girls are dancing with girls and boys are dancing ... |
| Date: | 04 17 1957 |
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| Description: | An elderly woman, Josephine Fell, is the "adopted grandmother" to a Girl Scout that visits her and works with her on a puzzle at Rosemary's Nursing Home in... |
| 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: | 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 05 1928 |
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| Description: | Mautz Cigars and Billards window display, 832 University Avenue, advertising Chesterfield Cigarettes with a football motif. |
| Date: | 12 15 1913 |
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| Description: | A horse-drawn wagon, filled with University of Wisconsin students dressed as clowns, proceeds along a Madison street as part of a parade. Spectators line ... |
| Date: | 04 18 1944 |
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| Description: | Group of boys gather around a frog at a frog jumping contest. |
| Date: | 12 18 1947 |
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| Description: | A Shrine clown pointing out Santa Claus to a young girl at the Madison Shriners yule party at the Washington Orthopedic School, 545 West Dayton Street. |
| Date: | 08 02 1950 |
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| Description: | A group of clowns posing with their small car during the annual Knights of Columbus-Zor Shrine show at Breese Stevens Field. |
| Date: | 08 02 1950 |
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| Description: | Two Knights of Columbus clowns are pretending to take someone's picture during the annual Knights of Columbus-Zor Shrine show at Breese Stevens Field. |
| Date: | 09 12 1950 |
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| Description: | The Y-Teen group is made up of teenage girls from the local high schools who take part in activities at the YWCA. Three members of the Senior High Y-Teens ... |
| Date: | 01 24 1951 |
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| Description: | Three smiling men are posing in a pretend boxing stance at the Park Hotel. On the right is former world heavy weight boxing champion, Jack Dempsey. On the ... |
| Date: | 08 01 1951 |
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| Description: | A clown dressed in western costume entertaining children and youth during the Knights of Columbus and Zor Shrine softball game at Breese Steven's Field. |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | Camel rides at the Vilas Park Zoo (Henry Vilas Zoo) for children, given free by Zor Temple Camel Patrol on Sunday afternoons during the summer. A number of... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | View across water towards the kiddie train at Vilas Park Zoo (Henry Vilas Zoo). The train was donated by the Madison Lions Club and operated from 1953-1968... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | A young girl and another child riding a camel led by a Zor Shriner at the Vilas Park Zoo (Henry Vilas Zoo). In the background the Zor Booster Band is in a... |
| Date: | 08 06 1952 |
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| Description: | Clowns surround Mayor George Forster, sitting the the driver's seat of a car, during the Knights of Columbus Shrine Softball Circus event. |
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