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| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | A street carnival on the Capitol Square in which two individuals perform together while suspended in the air. |
| 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: | 1936 |
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| Description: | A costumed young woman who danced as part of the Carioca Revue stands on a stage in the midway of the Wisconsin State Fair, perhaps waiting to perform. |
| 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: | Portrait of a refugee child acting in a play at a Displaced Persons camp; Germany. Saul Sorrin was interviewed as part of the Wisconsin Survivors of the... |
| Date: | 08 02 1950 |
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| Description: | A group of clowns posing with their small car during the annual Knights of Columbus-Zor Shrine show at Breese Stevens Field. |
| Date: | 08 02 1950 |
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| Description: | Two Knights of Columbus clowns are pretending to take someone's picture during the annual Knights of Columbus-Zor Shrine show at Breese Stevens Field. |
| Date: | 11 17 1950 |
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| Description: | Nakoma School third grade children watching a class play, "Democracy for Boys and Girls." The children were assigned to find out where their ancestors came... |
| Date: | 08 01 1951 |
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| Description: | A clown dressed in western costume entertaining children and youth during the Knights of Columbus and Zor Shrine softball game at Breese Steven's Field. |
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| Description: | View of an acrobatic team on a trapeze. The act, performed on a boardwalk at Midland Beach by the Flying Cromwells, is observed by a large gathering of peo... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Large group of students and teachers gathered in a circle to watch young girls winding the maypole at an annual school festival in Belwood Park. |
| Date: | 08 12 1953 |
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| Description: | Two clowns wearing polka-dotted costumes are cavorting in front of crowded bleachers at Breese Stevens Field. The staged slow-pitch softball game was in it... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | The Wisconsin veterans homes and hospitals regularly enjoyed entertainment provided the Madison Elks via Ben Bergor's entertainment agency. The performance... |
| Date: | 07 04 1947 |
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| Description: | Ring at the Cedarburg horse show with cowgirls and cowboys. On the right are crowd-filled bleachers behind fence. |
| Date: | 03 1945 |
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| Description: | Surviving crew members of the USS Franklin watching an amateur vaudeville on their hanger deck, seven says after their disaster. The USS Franklin... |
| Date: | 05 26 1954 |
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| Description: | Nakoma Welfare League member, some standing, others sitting on blankets on the ground while viewing the ceremony to install new officers. The ceremony took... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Performers lined up on the stage in "The Toy Shop," a Christmas play, with a Santa figure, a boy in harlequin dress, two boys in military uniforms, girls i... |
| Date: | 07 04 1994 |
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| Description: | The flag raising during the Fourth of July ceremony, with a group of the local Knights of Columbus on the left. In the foreground on the right is a photogr... |
| Date: | 06 1989 |
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| Description: | Widmer cheese float in the Firemen's Parade. |
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