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| Date: | 07 04 1901 |
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| Description: | Syl, Gordon and Harold playing with fireworks on a lawn. A hammock strung between two trees is visible in the background. |
| Date: | 07 05 1951 |
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| Description: | Twelve children from the Maple Bluff Fourth of July parade wearing varied costumes and standing in front of a large United States flag. |
| Date: | 07 04 1991 |
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| Description: | New York members of Veterans for Peace, a national organization that united veterans of all wars, marching in a Fourth of July Parade. |
| Date: | 07 04 1952 |
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| Description: | View of the Virginia Terrace 4th of July neighborhood celebration. Judy Novick, left and Lindy Reuter, center, marching in the children's parade, and at ri... |
| Date: | 07 04 1952 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the 504th Air Force band from Truax Field leading off the 1952 Fourth of July parade followed by two of Madison's newer fire trucks. The v... |
| Date: | 07 04 1952 |
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| Description: | Three children are dressed in costume for the children's parade during the Virginia Terrace 4th of July neighborhood celebration. Left to right: Susan Bucc... |
| Date: | 07 04 1952 |
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| Description: | Nancy, Glenn, and Tommy Lewis are shown costumed as sandwich board newspaper sections at the Shorewood Hills Fourth of July celebration. They won the most ... |
| Date: | 07 04 1952 |
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| Description: | Seven children dressed as cowboys 'portray the hardship of the 49ers trail.' They are, left to right: Bobby Curtis, John Curtis, John Levy, Bruce Levy, Vir... |
| Date: | 07 04 1952 |
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| Description: | A lineup of over twenty costumed children assembled along 2620 Chamberlain Street in the Shepard Terrace neighborhood. They had performed a circus for Roun... |
| Date: | 07 04 1952 |
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| Description: | Some of the 300 children who took part in the Westmorland Fourth of July Parade line up on a narrow tree-lined Westmorland Boulevard. 3,000 people took par... |
| Date: | 07 04 1952 |
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| Description: | Twelve children are shown in the water at the village beach at the start of the balloon race. A boy is standing on a raft behind the group, and the shoreli... |
| Date: | 07 04 1963 |
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| Description: | A calliope truck with text reading "Jos. Schlitz Brewing Co. Presents / A Day in Old Milwaukee / July 4th / Featuring Schlitz Circus Parade" drives down a ... |
| Date: | 07 04 1963 |
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| Description: | A restored 19th century circus wagon travels down a commercial road on a trailer during a parade. The 25-piece circus parade traveled from Circus World Mus... |
| Date: | 07 04 1963 |
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| Description: | Four children are standing looking at a circus wagon labeled "Pawnee Bill" which is chained to the bed of an International truck. The wagon was part of a 2... |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | A group of men and women look on as a parade of circus wagons passes through downtown streets, carried on the beds of International trucks. The 25-piece pa... |
| Date: | 07 04 1964 |
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| Description: | Children on bikes in Madison's Crestwood neighborhood July 4th parade. In the center is Peter W. Faber (1959-2007) wearing a Mexican cowboy costume, origi... |
| Date: | 07 04 1964 |
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| Description: | Three children, and a toddler in a stroller, pose at the edge of the street in front of the Faber home at 5706 Dogwood Place, Madison, Wisconsin. A decorat... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Film still exterior of a group of people at a picnic. A man is holding a bear with a chain in the center of the image. Booths can be seen in background, on... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Film still of a group outdoors at a Fourth of July picnic. A man is chasing a small pig in the center of a group of people. |
| Date: | 07 1983 |
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| Description: | Theresa firemen participate in the Knowles Annual 4th of July Picnic and Parade. |
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