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Filter: Year of 1900-1999
| Date: | 07 11 1930 |
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| Description: | Paul Vilbrandt, age 10, standing by a tree and ladder at the 1200 block of West Dayton Street, hoping to break the tree sitting record of Jimmie Clemons of... |
| Date: | 04 10 1929 |
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| Description: | East High School reading contest, with six girl winners standing on a stage. |
| Date: | 03 21 1929 |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of the Central High School reading contest winners. |
| Date: | 01 30 1928 |
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| Description: | Outdoor portrait of Chris Ethun and Eunice Smith as Security State Bank team captains for an employee contest to bring in $100,000 in new deposits. They ar... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Man plowing with a Holt crawler tractor, no. 1609, at the Winnipeg tractor contest in Canada. The tractor was built by the Holt Manufacturing Company of St... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Men in suits and hats follow along as a man plows with a Holt crawler tractor at the Winnipeg tractor contest in Canada. Another man in the foreground is p... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Men pose with a J.I. Case 20-40 tractor at the Winnipeg tractor contest in Canada. |
| Date: | 08 02 1963 |
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| Description: | Contestant baits her hook in Washington Park at the annual Milwaukee county park commission's fishing rodeo. |
| Date: | 08 17 1963 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Grand Champion soap box coaster crossing the finish line. |
| Date: | 09 1957 |
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| Description: | Children at starting line of toy pedal tractor race near the International Harvester exhibit at the World's Conservation Exposition and Plowing Contests, S... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | A sketch of the winning dress designed by Betty Lou Jahn of Milwaukee for the first Alice in Dairyland in 1948. Not only was the design worn by the first A... |
| Date: | 08 30 1965 |
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| Description: | Press release photograph of a woman holding a picket sign reading "unfairly difficult driving problem" in mock protest of the difficulty of events involved... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | An audience watches and judges stand by as cattle are lined up to be judged in a pavilion at the Wisconsin State Fair. |
| Date: | 11 08 1953 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the Catholic War Veterans talent contest contestants in costume. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Two young boys and their prize-winning ducks at the 1955 Wisconsin State Fair. |
| Date: | 06 06 1944 |
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| Description: | Onlookers on slope of B.B. Clarke Beach looking out to the lake to watch a swim meet. |
| Date: | 04 18 1944 |
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| Description: | Group of boys gather around a frog at a frog jumping contest. |
| Date: | 05 01 1945 |
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| Description: | Pupils of the Highlands-Mendota Beach School ran a clothing drive contest among school rooms and collected well over a truckload of clothing. Pictured are ... |
| Date: | 07 26 1947 |
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| Description: | Crowd and officials watch Soap Box Derby contestants at the finish line on East Gorham Street. |
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