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| Date: | 11 08 1968 |
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| Description: | The Gemini 7 space capsule in which astronaut James Lovell flew in 1965, seen here on display at the Wisconsin Regional Space Center. Although born in Ma... |
| Date: | 11 20 1966 |
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| Description: | As a crowd of onlookers watch, Santa Claus alights from his special holiday helicopter with the help of an aide at Southgate Shopping Center. |
| Date: | 02 27 1989 |
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| Description: | Members of the foils teams of Catholic Memorial High School give a fencing demonstration to a class of elementary school students. |
| Date: | 09 20 1988 |
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| Description: | A father gives his young son archery pointers in Kletzsch Park while his daughter looks on. |
| Date: | 08 29 1966 |
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| Description: | Father James Groppi leading a fair housing march. |
| Date: | 07 30 1984 |
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| Description: | Bertha Hynek of Allenton is eating an ice cream cone while her grandson, Wesley Priesgen, 10, works on an ear of roasted corn. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Merrie Barney, the 1959 Alice in Dairyland, helps a young boy eating a cream puff, always a favorite treat at the Wisconsin State Fair. |
| 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: | 07 10 1985 |
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| Description: | People, including a very eager little girl, stand around a concession stand to buy popcorn, peanuts, cotton candy, snow-cones, and other snacks at the 50th... |
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| Description: | Panorama view of a parking lot filled with cars at the state fair. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Center of an elevated panoramic view of a full parking lot, with the grandstand in the background. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Right side of an elevated panoramic view of a full parking lot with houses and electrical towers in the background. |
| Date: | 07 1969 |
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| Description: | Senator William Proxmire hands his cards to constituents outside a Milwaukee grocery store. |
| Date: | 04 05 1981 |
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| Description: | 400 people march to a rally where they demand that the birthday of Martin Luther King, (January 15) be declared a national holiday. |
| Date: | 10 31 1977 |
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| Description: | Thousands of people from the inner city flocked to a Halloween Party given to help keep children off the street during the holiday. |
| Date: | 08 1953 |
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| Description: | Fairgoers viewing a special exhibit of Milwaukee Braves memorabilia. This was the first season during which the Braves played in Milwaukee. |
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| Description: | At the Department of Agriculture's Milk House at the Wisconsin State Fair, an elderly woman, Mrs. Shimmon of Milwaukee, and a young man drink milk from pap... |
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| Description: | Actor William Boyd, better known as Hopalong Cassidy, with two pairs of twins entered in the twin competition at the Wisconsin State Fair. None of the chil... |
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| Description: | A group of African American children drinking from water fountains, or bubblers as they are frequently known in Milwaukee, at the Wisconsin State Fair. |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Fairgoers ride a tractor-drawn passenger wagon at the Fair. In the background is the Sky King roller coaster. |
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