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Wisconsin Building at the St. Louis World's Fair

Date: 1904
Description: The Joseph Clauder Marching Band from Milwaukee pose in front of the Wisconsin Building at the St. Louis World's Fair. Clauder's band was one of the most p...
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Panorama of Chippewa Indians at Odanah Fair

Date: 1912
Description: Panoramic image of Chippewa (Ojibwa) Indians at a fair in northern Wisconsin. Caption under the image reads, "Souvenier [sic] of Odanah, Fair 1913."...
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Family and Wagon at Fair Grounds

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Description: Woman and child posed sitting in a buggy pulled by a single horse wearing a fly-net. A man is standing in front of them. The grandstand at the Jackson Coun...
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World's Columbian Exposition

Date: 1893
Description: Three men in Arab dress pose in front of the base of an obelisk on the Midway at the World's Columbian Exposition. A gentleman in western dress also poses ...
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Milt Polland

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Description: Polland at the Mid-Summer Festival on the Milwaukee lakefront, with the boys of Nick Ehr family in the foreground. This was just after the successful Zeidl...
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McCormick-Deering Industrial Power Display

Date: 1938
Description: Group portrait taken inside a tent at the Indiana State Fair showing eight men in suits, hats and ties, some holding walking canes, standing beneath an ele...
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Odanah Indian Fair

Date: 1915
Description: Elevated group portrait of men, women and children posing at the fairgrounds at Odanah. Most of the people are Native Americans, probably Ojibwe, with a nu...
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Mel's Circus Clown Band

Date: 1963
Description: Group of seven men posing in clown costumes and holding musical instruments. A drum on a wheeled cart has a cartoon representation of a clown, and is label...

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