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Alice in Dairyland, Mary Ellen Jenks

Date: 08 22 1953
Description: Mary Ellen Jenks, Alice in Dairyland in 1953, dressed in a formal gown, standing with a cow, a clown, and another woman in a Golden Guernsey display.
Photograph

An Eye for Ice Cream

Date: 06 19 1983
Description: Tina Polley looked through a pair of large clown eyeglasses as she ate an ice cream cone at an Ice Cream and Pie Social at St. Francis Episcopal Church.
Postcard

Four Men Playing Cards

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Description: Photographic postcard of a full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of four men sitting at a table playing cards, smoking cigarettes and ...
Photograph

Winnebago Drive-In Theater

Date: 10 1955
Description: Interior of refreshment stand of the Winnebago Drive-In Theatre.
Photograph

Trip's Wild Life Bar and Grill — Interior

Date: 08 29 2003
Description: "Our waitress, Megan, joined us when we dined at Trip's in Pipe."
Photograph

Eddie Tullock

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Description: Magician Eddie Tullock (1919-2007) performing at a restaurant. Minnesota-born Tullock was the originator of "trade show magic," the concept of presenting a...
Photograph

Three Men Drinking

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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 ...
Print

Rupert's Roadkill Cafe Menu

Date: 1986
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...
Photograph

Clowns at Cheese Day

Date: 10 24 1930
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 ...
Postcard

Gag Photo of a Man Posing with Paper Woman

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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...
Photograph

Annual Vilas Park Fireworks

Date: 07 01 1965
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...
Photograph

Me an' Billy

Date: 1899
Description: A toddler wearing an oversized straw hat is sitting on a box on the ground. There is a bottle in the toddler's pocket. There is a goat is standing next to ...

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