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| Date: | 09 09 1940 |
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| Description: | Boy and girl at the Henry Vilas Zoo, looking at elephant cage, and donkey cage while getting a drink from the fountain. Taken for Manchesters Department St... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Phyllis Paulson of Stoughton with the calf she planned to enter in the Junior Fair competition at the Wisconsin State Fair. The calf's name was Elsie, perh... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Freddy Lang of rural Dane County with the Guernsey calf he planned to enter in the Junior Fair competition at the Wisconsin State Fair. |
| Date: | 12 10 1944 |
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| Description: | A young girl (possibly the daughter of Russell B. Pyre) dressed in a pinafore with her dog. |
| Date: | 11 18 1948 |
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| Description: | "The new Annie the elephant, left, standing with her forefeet on the rail of her new home at Henry Vilas Zoo (Vilas Park Zoo), greeting her juvenile public... |
| Date: | 12 02 1948 |
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| Description: | Seven girls are shown holding eight puppies. The girls are members of the Poll Parrot Club which raised the Labrador mix puppies. They intend to sell them ... |
| Date: | 04 02 1949 |
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| Description: | Seven-year-old Fred "Freddy" Nelson, son of Mr. and Mrs. R.W. (Colya) Nelson, 3918 Nakoma Road, with his pet alligator, "George". The baby alligator was se... |
| Date: | 04 02 1949 |
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| Description: | Sharon Koepke, twelve-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Philip (Joy) Koepke, 830 Hiawatha Drive, with her pet white rat, "Bonnie". |
| Date: | 04 02 1949 |
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| Description: | Nine-year-old Susan Kamm, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Kermit (Marjorie) Kamm, 1015 Yale Road, is pictured with her pet turtle, "Barney". Susan purchased her p... |
| Date: | 04 02 1949 |
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| Description: | Two large bowls of guppies are the center of interest for ten-year-old Gill and seven-year-old Fritz in the living room of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred... |
| Date: | 04 02 1949 |
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| Description: | Eight-year-old Mary Katherine Westover, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. E.F. (Marguerite) Westover, 3306 Topping Road, with her special pet, a tame mallard duck a... |
| Date: | 08 1948 |
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| Description: | A young boy and young girl feed a fawn from a nippled bottle at the Wisconsin Centennial Exposition. |
| Date: | 08 1948 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a number of young boys, and one girl, each crouched next to a sheep, displaying it to the crowd gathered around a pen at the Wisconsin Cen... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Barefoot boy sitting on a bar and feeding a fawn with a bottle. There is a Schlitz sign on the wall behind the bar and a handwritten sign listing Pabst, Sc... |
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