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| Date: | 07 11 2015 |
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| Description: | View looking up towards people riding the yellow, red, and blue painted Ferris wheel. A sign on the right reads: "The Big Eli Ferris Wheel." |
| Date: | 06 13 1987 |
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| Description: | A man is grimacing while working on what appears to be an Egyptian stone sculpture. Caption reads: "Tejumola F. Ologboni attached the beard to a figure on ... |
| Date: | 07 02 1953 |
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| Description: | View towards a man standing in the Miller Brewing Co. exhibit booth under a tent, sponsored by the East Side Liquor Store, 1047 Atwood Avenue and distribut... |
| Date: | 08 09 1972 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of four women setting up tables at the Musky Jamboree, preparing to cook and serve over one thousand pounds of musky. Men and boys are watchi... |
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| Description: | A woman carrying a basket over her arm and dressed in a Swiss dress is kneeling and posing with her Saint Bernard. A small wooden keg decorated with the Sw... |
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| Description: | A woman with her back turned is posing outdoors and showing the back of her Swiss costume. Her hat is decorated with pins. |
| Date: | 08 21 1971 |
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| Description: | Rear view a man standing on a weighted sled holding the reigns of two horses. The horses are attempting to pull the weight forward on loose dirt. Five men ... |
| Date: | 05 21 1969 |
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| Description: | A young girl is among a crowd of people, sitting on a tricycle and crying and wiping her face. Caption reads: "ALL ALONE — Little Kim Whitham, 4, of Waukes... |
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| Description: | Through Bosnia and the Herzegovina during the war. Celebrating the Mevlud (Mawlid) festival to commemorate Mohammed's birthday on January 18th (1916) in Sa... |
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| Description: | Through Bosnia and the Herzegovina during the war. Celebrating the Mevlud (Mawlid) festival to commemorate Mohammed's birthday on January 18th (1916) in Sa... |
| Date: | 05 11 1957 |
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| Description: | The 24th annual Radio Music Festival of the WHA Wisconsin School of the Air held at the U.W. Stock Pavilion attended by 2,019 boys and girls. Margaret Merl... |
| Date: | 05 11 1957 |
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| Description: | Warren Wooldridge conducts the 24th Annual Radio Music Festival of the WHA Wisconsin School of the Air concert held at the U.W. Stock Pavilion attended by ... |
| Date: | 10 1910 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising a bird shoot in Ashton, Wisconsin on October 30, 1910. The shoot was held at the tavern of Werner Esser. There is a hand-written narrati... |
| Date: | 03 23 1959 |
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| Description: | Judith Brockett Jackson, a sophomore economics and political science major at the University of Wisconsin, will be will be Wisconsin's princess in the trad... |
| Date: | 09 16 1968 |
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| Description: | A boy is smiling while wearing a sombrero. He is holding a large lollipop in front of his mouth. Caption reads: "Wearing a big sombrero, Anthony Berrones, ... |
| Date: | 09 18 1989 |
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| Description: | A group of people are standing and sitting, including several children in the back of a truck. Caption reads: "Spectators lined the Mexican Independence Da... |
| Date: | 02 10 1957 |
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| Description: | A man playing a two-necked contraguitar while another man is playing a zither. Caption reads: "A bass guitar and zither were played by Hans Glieber ... |
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