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| Date: | 08 23 1901 |
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| Description: | The stage and surrounding posters of Professor Oscar John Schendel's "All Star Vaudeville, Big Three-Ringed Circus, and Mammoth Menagerie." |
| 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: | 08 22 1953 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 07 26 1966 |
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| Description: | Several young people pause behind the fence to look at a midway ride in action at the Washington County Junior Fair. |
| Date: | 06 19 1983 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 08 03 1981 |
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| Description: | Despite rain and fog, people turned out to enjoy a street festival sponsored by the Guadalupe Center at 239 W. Washington Street in Milwaukee. There were e... |
| Date: | 10 1906 |
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| Description: | A female daredevil stunt driver, possibly Beryle Elliot, in a horseless carriage catapults up into the air, doing a loop-the-loop or sommersault off a ski ... |
| Date: | 06 26 1909 |
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| Description: | Two men paddle barrels with their hands and feet while a third tips over on Pewaukee Lake at the Waukesha Beach recreation area. Other people watch both f... |
| Date: | 04 18 1944 |
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| Description: | Group of boys gather around a frog at a frog jumping contest. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | View looking over Fort Dells, with cars parked in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Exterior from road of Minirama at 115 Broadway. |
| 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: | 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: | 09 21 1967 |
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| Description: | Cover of "The Free Statesman," an underground newspaper, depicting a clown figure dancing with a woman, and standing on top of a dove. |
| 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. |
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