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| Description: | In a "gag" photograph, three men are drinking from bottles. The two men in the foreground are holding each others bottles. They appear to be standing next ... |
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| Description: | In a "gag" photograph, a teenager wearing overalls stands on the saddle of a pony, his dog tucked between his legs. He is wearing overalls and a hat. A fie... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of a water slide at Mirror Lake State Park. A woman rides down the slide into the lake, and a few people stand on the platform behind h... |
| Date: | 09 25 1956 |
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| Description: | LeRoy Luberg, assistant to University of Wisconsin president E.B. Fred, and Jesse Briese of Madison take part in a skit during the Club Clinic, a program f... |
| 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: | 01 23 1957 |
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| Description: | Six Jewish husbands dressed as female Hawaiian dancers in wigs and grass skirts posing for the camera. The husbands were part of a presentation at the annu... |
| Date: | 08 1993 |
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| Description: | "Bungee jumpers at Wisconsin State Fair, Milwaukee." |
| Date: | 06 1994 |
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| Description: | "Ossie Reimer of Lomira with his dog, Rusty, entertains patients at Hope Nursing Home." |
| 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: | 1986 |
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| Description: | Front cover and imagined bill of fare for "Rupert's Roadkill Cafe: You Kill It ... ... We Grill It!," with a cartoon drawing of a cat standing on long, fla... |
| 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 ... |
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| Description: | For any master line drawn fine enough or spoken well let us call all professionals to wear the laurel and deck the Halls of Fame |
| 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: | A gag photo postcard of a man, seated on the edge of a bed, with his arm around a life-sized paperboard cut out of a beautiful, seated woman. He is holding... |
| Date: | 11 05 1959 |
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| Description: | Five girls are ready to enjoy a magic show presented by Jack Hurlbut at the Mother-Daughter Opti-Mrs. Luncheon. From left to right are: Linda Nettum, Julie... |
| Date: | 01 17 1960 |
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| Description: | Mayor Ivan Nestingen (center) posing with a bowling ball in his hands before throwing a strike while throwing out the first ball. On the left is Pat Lynaug... |
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