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Pussy Wants a Corner

Date: 10 25 1912
Description: Depicts eight young men and women playing an outdoor game of pussy wants a corner.
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Dane County Tug of War Champions

Date: 08 20
Description: Dane County tug of war champion team, dressed in overalls, with ropes used in competition. The team went to the 1934 Chicago World's Fair.
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Curtis Thornton, Madison Marble Champion

Date: 05 20 1933
Description: Portrait of Curtis Thornton, Madison's 1933 marble champion.
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Marble Tournament Champions

Date: 04 30 1932
Description: Outdoor group portrait of 27 marble tournament champions at Breese Stevens Field.
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Madison Horseshoe Team

Date: 08 15 1931
Description: Five members of the Madison Horseshoe team, at the horseshoe pit, in a neighborhood setting. Ed Tierney, Seymour J. Johnson, Julian Johnson, L. Messerschmi...
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Horseshoe Pitching Champion, Seymour J. Johnson

Date: 08 15 1931
Description: Outdoor portrait of Seymour J. Johnson, Madison Horseshoe champion, holding a horseshoe at the horseshoe pit.
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Billiards Room Window

Date: 11 05 1928
Description: Mautz Cigars and Billards window display, 832 University Avenue, advertising Chesterfield Cigarettes with a football motif.
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Two Women Play Croquet

Date: 1874
Description: Two women playing croquet in yard with large Victorian brick house in background that has brackets, two round windows at top and bay window at bottom; latt...
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Bechtel Family with Croquet Mallets

Date: 1879
Description: Bechtel family seated in yard with croquet mallets in front of them with brick house that has soldier coursing at windows and fan window at third story. Da...
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Bechtel Family in Yard with Croquet Mallets

Date: 1879
Description: Bechtel family posed sitting in yard with croquet mallets and balls in front. Brick house with third story fan window and frame addition in back with slan...
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Ole Bull Residence

Date: 1872
Description: Ole Bull Residence, 130 East Gilman Street. The family is playing croquet on the lawn. Later, the house was known as the Thorp House. It became the state's...
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Ole Bull Family Playing Croquet

Date: 1874
Description: Ole Bull Residence at 130 East Gilman Street. Family on lawn playing croquet with house in background. Later, the house was known as the Thorp House. It be...
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Saint Julien Billiard Rooms

Date: 1872
Description: Exterior elevated view of the Saint Julien Billiard Rooms on Main Street on the Fourth of July.
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Pitching Horseshoes on July 4th

Date: 07 02 1944
Description: Fourth of July celebration in Westmorland neighborhood with three men pitching horseshoes. Shown here are Elmer Nielson, 4022 Winnemac Avenue, Ray Heibel, ...
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Madison Playground Scenes

Date: 06 28 1950
Description: Sherry Klein (right) playing a game of checkers with Janice Wirioff at the Milton-Charter park playground as Edward Lambert, Kenneth and Shirley Bloom are ...
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Brownie Day Camp

Date: 06 29 1950
Description: Girl assemble for Brownie Girl Scout day camp at Hoyt Park.
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Madison Summer Playground Activities

Date: 08 16 1950
Description: A group of kids play a paper game "Air Defense" with two playground directors at a table in Vilas Park. Sitting around the table, from left, are: Nancy Bri...
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Wisconsin Hoofers Winter Carnival

Date: 01 31 1951
Description: An unidentified University of Wisconsin student looks on as fellow student, Jim Healy of Milwaukee (right), practices for the barrel stave races. The race ...
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Wisconsin Hoofers Winter Carnival

Date: 01 31 1951
Description: Members of the Kappa Gamma sorority team on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus are pictured practicing for the broom hockey matches to be held as p...
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Tug-o-War

Date: 1965
Description: A group of men play tug-o-war on a lawn near the side of a street. Two buildings are in the background.

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