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Women's Building

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Description: Fairgoers walk past the Women's Building at the Wisconsin State Fair. The sign on the front reads: Women's Dept."
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Horticulture Building at the State Fair

Date: 1927
Description: Crowds walking past the Horticulture Building at the Wiconsin State Fair. In a pavilion above the building the Aluminum Goose Manufacturing Co. Band of Ma...
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Fair Midway Crowds

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Description: Elevated view of crowds packing the Midway at the Wisconsin State Fair.
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Great Fair at Milwaukee

Date: 06 28 1865
Description: The Great Fair held at Milwaukee for the benefit of the Wisconsin Soldiers Home. The 130x130 foot building was constructed especially for the ten-day fair....
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Theodore Roosevelt in Milwaukee

Date: 09 01 1912
Description: Theodore Roosevelt in front of the Deutscher Club. The club later became the Wisconsin Club.
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Alice in Dairyland

Date: 1948
Description: A crowd surrounds a 10-foot mechanical mannequin of Alice in Dairyland at an Alice display for the Wisconsin Centennial Exposition. The Alice could raise h...
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Jack Johnson at Auto Race

Date: 10 02 1912
Description: African American heavyweight boxing champion, Jack Johnson, drove up to Milwaukee from his home in Chicago to watch the Vanderbilt Cup race on October 2, 1...
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Automobile Accident

Date: 04 03 1979
Description: Emergency workers assist the passenger injured in an accident at North Sherman Boulevard and W. North Avenue. The automobile, which was driven by a ninete...
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Milwaukee Fender Bender

Date: 1956
Description: Passers-by help move a disabled vehicle after an automobile accident on Wisconsin Avenue.
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Milwaukee Auditorium

Date: 1909
Description: Interior view of the Milwaukee Auditorium during an event.
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Carnival Scene at the Fair

Date: 1936
Description: Midway area of the Wisconsin State Fair, showing a truck advertising peanuts at 5 cents in the center background.
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Goodyear Blimp at the Fair

Date: 1936
Description: The blimp of the Goodyear Tire Company hovers above the carnival area of the Wisconsin State Fair, tethered to the ground with ropes. The fairgoers, howev...
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Accordionist at the Fair

Date: 1936
Description: A young accordionist plays a solo for the crowd at the Wisconsin State Fair, while another young player watches.
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Entrance to the Wisconsin State Fair

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Description: People milling about between a trolley car and the main entrance to the State Fair Park.
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Mother By Choice

Date: 06 20 1992
Description: A group of pro-choice supporters stand together outdoors. One woman holds a sign that reads "Mother By Choice".
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Pro-Choice and Pro-Life Leaders

Date: 06 16 1992
Description: Maggi Cage (right), a pro-choice leader, and Janel Parshall (left), a pro-life Wisconsin advocate, stand in front of a crowd of protesters at a reproductiv...
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Wisconsin State Fair Tractor Exhibit

Date: 09 12 1935
Description: A crowd of spectators looks at a McCormick Farmall tractor on display at the Wisconsin State Fair. The tractor is an F-12.
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Joe McCarthy and Admirers

Date: 12 11 1951
Description: Senator Joseph R. McCarthy greets admirers at a Republican Party dinner that honored him.
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National Avenue Parade

Date: 1890
Description: Elevated view looking west on W. National Avenue from about S. 6th Street, towards a parade marching down National Avenue with a crowd of people watching, ...
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Whaleback Steamer "Christopher Columbus"

Date: 1912
Description: Large crowd of passengers on the whaleback excursion steamer "Christopher Columbus".

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