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| Date: | 06 29 1932 |
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| Description: | Hommel's Star Food Store at 606 S. Park Street, with promotional truck in front of store, and children looking on. Vehicle (Ballyhoo Truck) has a painted s... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | International Model S speed truck carrying reindeer and men dressed as clowns, Eskimos, and Santa Claus during a winter parade. A blanket on reindeer reads... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Circus performer Harriet Hodgini, sits on the gate of a truck helping Otto Griebling, a circus clown, apply his makeup. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A Ringling Circus wagon, pulled by a horse, with clowns riding on top, is part of a parade along a city street. |
| Date: | 11 05 1963 |
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| Description: | A young girl handles a stuffed toy clown during the Milwaukee-Downer seminary alumnae holiday bazaar. |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Two early Ringling Brothers' circus clowns, whose photographs appeared in the "Ringling Annual" under a section titled "Last of the Old-Time Clowns". |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Personnel of the Walter L. Main show in 1904 and 1905, photographed outside a tent, include clowns, the driver of a four horse chariot, and air performers.... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Billy Winslow, a clown and wire walker with the Barnum & Bailey Show, with a prop he used in his performance. |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | A circus clown sits astride a donkey outside a tent. |
| 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: | 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: | 08 04 1948 |
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| Description: | Five clowns and two police officers, with Joseph L. "Roundy" Coughlin on a stretcher, at the Knights of Columbus - Zor Shrine Softball Show at Breese Steve... |
| Date: | 08 04 1948 |
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| Description: | Clown on a motorscooter with a man in a suit at the Knights of Columbus - Zor Shrine Softball Show at Breese Stevens Field. |
| Date: | 07 04 1948 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of seven clowns at the Knights of Columbus - Zor Shrine Softball Show at Breese Stevens Field. |
| 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... |
| Date: | 08 03 1949 |
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| Description: | A clown (Bill Kemmel) mingles in a large crowd at Breese Stevens Field at the sixth annual softball "extravaganza" between the Zor Shrine and the Knights o... |
| Date: | 08 15 1942 |
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| Description: | A clown entertains three women at a Civilian Defense Rally, two of whom are wearing bonnets and matching dresses. Booths behind the women read "Variety Sto... |
| 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. |
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