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| Date: | 11 25 1871 |
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| Description: | Engraved view of Peshtigo Fire showing people trying to escape the flames by boat and on horseback. A team of cattle also seek refuge and several birds tak... |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Advertising lithograph depicting the first public demonstration of a mechanical reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick at Steeles Tavern, Virginia, in 1831. The sc... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A parade turning the corner from Wisconsin Avenue on to the Capitol Square. A horse-drawn wagon in the foreground carries a May Pole and dancers from the K... |
| Date: | 12 01 1915 |
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| Description: | Lindsey Reese of International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department delivering a lecture on livestock and agriculture to a crowd of people and a d... |
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| Description: | Several elephants walk up a hill in a circus parade along Main Street. They are followed by a group of horses, while bystanders watch from a platform on t... |
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| Description: | Snapshot by Madison butcher Earl Omen of elephants parading past the Monona Avenue gate of the third Wisconsin State Capitol. |
| Date: | 1844 |
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| Description: | Choctaw Indians performing dance (Plate 22). "As I have mentioned in former pages that for nearly all their hunts, wars, or games, the events of which th... |
| Date: | 1844 |
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| Description: | Large group of Indians engaged in the game of lacrosse (Plate 23). "Having in the two former illustrations and their chapters, explained to the readers t... |
| Date: | 10 14 1861 |
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| Description: | Engraving of Old Abe, mascot of the 8th Wisconsin Civil War Voluntary Infantry, displayed for a crowd. The eagle bearer holds Old Abe's staff perch while t... |
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| Description: | Crowd gathered at the intersection of Main Street and First Street for a performance by the town band, around a man holding a dog wearing a coat with words... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a crowd watching a band play on top of a circus wagon in a parade in town. |
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| Description: | View across street towards a band in a wagon parading through town. People are watching from the sidewalk, and also from second story porches. |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of men driving a circus calliope for a parade in town. A calliope is a musical instrument that produces sound by sending steam throu... |
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| Description: | Rear view of a circus wagon going through town, with a band on top pulled by a team of six horses. People are walking in the street behind the wagon, and t... |
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| Description: | Crowd watching a circus wagon with a band on top, in a parade in town, followed by a camel. |
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| Description: | Rear view of a man riding an elephant in a circus parade through town. Crowds line the sidewalk on the other side of the street. |
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| Description: | Band in two lines, facing each other, on Main Street in front of the A.F. Werner Drugstore. |
| Date: | 04 04 1947 |
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| Description: | Zor Shriners Band members serenading the Polack Brothers show elephants outside of the Parkway Theater, where they are performing. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Group of children seated on horse-drawn parade float covered in American flags. They are preceeded by a cart with musicians, and are followed by two women ... |
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| Description: | A small crowd watches as parading soldiers march down the street. |
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