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Suffrage March

Date: 03 03 1913
Description: Elevated view of a suffrage parade, with a large crowd looking on. The sign on the horse-drawn wagon reads: "We Demand an Amendment to the Constitution of ...
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Grand Prize Automobile Race

Date: 10 1912
Description: Slightly elevated view of drivers making last minute adjustments to their automobiles at the start of the Milwaukee Grand Prize race (later called the Amer...
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Milwaukee Motorcycle Race

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Description: Motorcyclists at the start of the race, probably at the Wisconsin State Fairgrounds.
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Parade Troopers

Date: 08 1958
Description: A group of people watching a parade along a sidewalk in the rain.
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Crowd at Baseball Game

Date: 1955
Description: Two men sitting in the stands review the Milwaukee Braves official program during a game.
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Steamboat "Barker"

Date: 1911
Description: The steamboat "Barker" with numerous passengers posing on deck. The boat was owned by Captain Frank Brower of Ashland, and his son Captain Henry F. Brower ...
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Demolition Train

Date: 1902
Description: Elevated view of a locomotive collision at the Wisconsin State Fair. This was a much advertised spectacle.
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African American Tenant Farmers at Barbecue

Date: 02 22 1915
Description: African American tenant farmers assembled for a barbecue. The tenants worked for Louis Frank Sessions who is in the front row, third from the left (wearing...
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Foosball Game Room

Date: 12 30 1976
Description: Elevated view of young people playing foosball in The Game Room, a former pizza restaurant, owned by Rosemary Mantekas at 2655 S. Kinnickinnic Avenue.
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Mud Wrestling

Date: 03 14 1981
Description: Onlookers watch as participants flail around in a mud pit wrestling ring. One spectator wears a bird costume.
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Midway Pleasance, Columbian Exposition

Date: 1893
Description: Midway Pleasance viewed from Illinois Central Viaduct; large Ferris wheel in background; large crowd, mostly walking in the direction of the Ferris wheel.
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St. Paul Ice Carnival Parade

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Description: Elevated view of the St. Paul Ice Carnival; royal family equipages in street parade with crowd lining street. There is a real estate agency and a laundry o...
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St. Paul Ice Carnival Toboggan Slide

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Description: St. Paul Ice Carnival, Toboggan Slide in Palace Grounds. View looking up track towards people grouped to the side of toboggan tracks, on stairs, and at the...
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Circus Parade

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Description: Circus parade at the corner of West Water and Grand Avenue. Crowds on the sidewalk and in horse-drawn vehicles are watching horse-drawn cages and other veh...
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Circus in Town

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Description: Elevated view of crowds watching a circus parade at the corner of West Water and Grand Avenue. In the foreground are four people on horseback. Beyond them ...
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Osborne Works Foremen's Annual Picnic Parade

Date: 1915
Description: Elevated view of men following a band in a parade through downtown Auburn for the Osborne Works foremen's annual picnic. Spectators are standing on the sid...
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St. Paul Ice Carnival, Instantaneous View of Bouncing

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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...
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St. Paul Ice Carnival Elk Team

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Description: A man in an elk-drawn sleigh is posing in front of the ice castle "Borealis" at the St. Paul Ice Carnival. Several people are looking on.
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Storming of Ice Palace by the Grand Army of the Republic

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Description: St. Paul Ice Carnival. Night view of the storming of the palace by the Grand Army of the Republic.
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St. Paul Ice Carnival Elk Sleigh

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Description: St. Paul Ice Carnival; Elk pulling sleigh outside palace. There is a crowd posing and looking at the camera. A sign on the palace reads: "Borealis."

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