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| Description: | Crowd watching a strongman lift a wagon wheel. |
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| Description: | Street performer balancing a man in a chair on his chin. |
| Date: | 08 19 1922 |
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| Description: | A man performs a ladder-climbing stunt in front of onlookers as part of the West Pullman and Milwaukee Works Fire Department Exhibition at West Pullman Par... |
| 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: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of an audience gathering around the "Girlesk Revue" stage at the Iowa State Fair. The signs in the background read: "Roller Skaters; Bicycle ... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | An audience gathers to watch the "Buttons Educated Monkeys" show, one of the attractions televised to the International Harvester tent at the Iowa State Fa... |
| Date: | 09 1959 |
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| Description: | Contract Signing for Wisconsin Dells Minirama. The man on the left is a banker, the man with eyeglasses is Ted Saunders, and the women are Ruth Bennett Dye... |
| Date: | 10 1955 |
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| Description: | Interior of refreshment stand of the Winnebago Drive-In Theatre. |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | S1 Locomotive for Minirama of Wisconsin Dells. |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | S-1 freight meets circus train at the Dells Minirama. DBC, Steamboat Winnebago, powerhouse. |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Steamboat Hiawatha meeting circus train at the Dells minirama (miniature model), bridge, DBC steamboat and launch. |
| Date: | 08 04 1948 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of ten clowns in costume at the Knights of Columbus - Zor Shrine Softball Show at Breese Stevens Field. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Madison Mayor, George Forrester, seated in the front row of the audience at the Ringling Brothers Circus. Clowns entertain the children seated near Forrest... |
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| Description: | A row of eight woman wearing white dresses and standing outdoors. They appear to be playing a game involving holding a string in their mouth with a weight ... |
| 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. ... |
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| Description: | Children and adults gather at Devil's Lake. Shown at the right is a large water slide. |
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