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| Description: | State Fair barker announcing side show attractions to a crowd of children, featuring "Midget City, the World's Tiniest Entertainers" and "Baby Thelma, 619 ... |
| Date: | 09 1980 |
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| Description: | A competitor in the State Cow Chip Tossing Contest has 30 seconds to choose her cow chip. The cow chips are specially made from cow manure. |
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| Description: | St. Paul Ice Carnival. A man being bounced is suspended in the air above a crowd of people. In the background is an ice castle. In the foreground is a hors... |
| Date: | 07 20 1944 |
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| Description: | Young people dance in the street on Bowen Court as part of city Recreation Department summer activities. Girls are dancing with girls and boys are dancing ... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | A crowd surrounds a man as he stands atop a tree trunk swinging his axe in a woodchopping contest. |
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| Description: | "Diamond Kitty," a performer with the Shrine Circus, poses with a large group of people in front of the sideshow tent housing the "World's Fattest People" ... |
| Date: | 08 23 1930 |
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| Description: | An audience in the grandstand at the Dane County Fair watches two men in a stunt automobile advertising the RKO film, "Dixiana." |
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| Description: | A long string of circus elephants parades single file down a metropolitan street lined on both sides by huge crowds of people. |
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| Description: | An overview of the Norris & Rowe Circus setup on tour in Vancouver, B.C., Canada. The show toured Canada and Mexico and played to packed houses. |
| 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: | 07 26 1966 |
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| Description: | Several young people pause behind the fence to look at a midway ride in action at the Washington County Junior Fair. |
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| Description: | Rex Roope of Kansas City got attention as he told his audience "all you have to do is ring the prize and it is yours. Step right up folks." |
| Date: | 10 1906 |
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| Description: | A female daredevil stunt driver, possibly Beryle Elliot, in a horseless carriage catapults up into the air, doing a loop-the-loop or sommersault off a ski ... |
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| Description: | Crowd watching a strongman lift a wagon wheel. |
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| Description: | Street performer balancing a man in a chair on his chin. |
| Date: | 08 19 1922 |
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| Description: | A man performs a ladder-climbing stunt in front of onlookers as part of the West Pullman and Milwaukee Works Fire Department Exhibition at West Pullman Par... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of an audience gathering around the "Girlesk Revue" stage at the Iowa State Fair. The signs in the background read: "Roller Skaters; Bicycle ... |
| 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: | 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... |
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