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| Date: | 08 26 1960 |
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| Description: | Miniature model of the Wisconsin Dells. Goggled diver, Ollie Reese, swimming with Dells recreation boat. This completely landscaped exhibit was built to sc... |
| Date: | 09 06 1947 |
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| Description: | Juggler performing at the Harvest Festival Dance sponsored by Local 75, United Automobile Workers (Seaman Body Company), State Fair Park. |
| 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: | 08 12 1984 |
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| Description: | A bikini-clad woman snaps a self-portrait with a long cable release attached to a camera as she is tossed into the air by a group of men on the beach. Othe... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | International Model S speed truck carrying reindeer and men dressed as clowns, Eskimos, and Santa Claus during a winter parade. A blanket on reindeer reads... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Workers relaxing outside International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. One group is crowded around a stage listening to a band while others are playing baseba... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | A crowd surrounds a man as he stands atop a tree trunk swinging his axe in a woodchopping contest. |
| 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: | 12 10 1968 |
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| Description: | Roland Sieg wiping pie from his face while smiling, after someone threw enough ping pong balls in a bucket to win a chance to hit him with a pie at a carni... |
| 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: | 09 23 1932 |
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| Description: | Three entertainers, Ben Turpin, Walter Hiers, and Snub Pollard, at J.R. Licari & Sons, 767 W. Washington. Greenbush Walter is filling Snub's cigarette ligh... |
| 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: | 1943 |
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| Description: | A group of over twenty-six Ringling Brothers, Barnum & Bailey Circus elephants, standing on their rear legs with front legs resting on the elephant ahead. ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A Ringling Circus wagon, pulled by a horse, with clowns riding on top, is part of a parade along a city street. |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Two early Ringling Brothers' circus clowns, whose photographs appeared in the "Ringling Annual" under a section titled "Last of the Old-Time Clowns". |
| Date: | 05 30 1908 |
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| Description: | The Great Wallace Shows, horses and wagons, were flooded out by a sudden cloudburst. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | George W. Hall, Jr.'s wagon show, pulled by horses, travels along a country road. |
| Date: | 04 04 1934 |
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| Description: | Three rings of the Ringling Brothers, Barnum & Bailey Circus are shown being set up for a performance in New York's Madison Square Garden. |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Personnel of the Walter L. Main show in 1904 and 1905, photographed outside a tent, include clowns, the driver of a four horse chariot, and air performers.... |
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