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Circus Performers Gather to View Eclipse

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Description: Ringling Brothers-Barnum & Bailey circus performers gathered in front of a circus tent to view a solar eclipse. Some are wearing protective eyeglasses.
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Circus People with Fish

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Description: A crew of people from the circus, possibly Ringling Brothers, Barnum, and Bailey, holding up their catch after a fishing trip.
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Inter-County Fair Attraction

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Description: A crowd is standing in front of a tent advertised as the "Temple of Music."
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Red Devil Airplane

Date: 1910
Description: An exhibition airplane on display inside a tent at Dixon, Illinois, thought to be a "Red Devil," plane designed by Thomas A. Baldwin.
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Gosling's Display at W.S.B.M. Festival

Date: 09 05 1943
Description: Gosling's Sales and Service display at West Side Business Men's Association harvest festival featuring coffee grinders, meat grinders and Holcomb & Hoke Ma...
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Works Projects Administration at the Wisconsin State Fair

Date: 1938
Description: Fair-goers stand in line to enter the W.P.A. Exhibit tent at the Wisconsin State Fair.
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Chicago Traveling Club at McBride's Point

Date: 07 1875
Description: Chicago Traveling Club encamped at McBride's Point at Maple Bluff on Lake Mendota near Madison. An African American sits at the left foreground with pans ...
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Gisholt Picnic

Date: 08 06 1944
Description: Five speakers at the Gisholt Machine Company picnic, taken at the Blooming Grove carnival grounds. Left to right: Marion "Red" Borland, president of Gishol...
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Musical Group at Louisiana State Fair

Date: 1946
Description: A musical group comprised of men playing guitars, fiddles, an accordion, and a string bass perform on stage at the Louisiana State Fair.
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Tractor Display at Ohio State Fair

Date: 1946
Description: Two men pose on a twenty-three year old Farmall Regular tractor on display under a tent at the Ohio State Fair. The sign reads: "23 yrs. old; This Farmall ...
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Nebraska State Fair Tent

Date: 1930
Description: Elevated view of a group of Nebraska State fairgoers gathered in the International Harvester tent to watch a film. Advertising pennants hang from the tent'...
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Farmall at the Tri-State Fair in Iowa

Date: 08 22 1929
Description: A crowd of spectators gathers around a Farmall Regular tractor on display at the Tri-State Fair.
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Copy Photograph of a Ho-Chunk and European American Group

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Description: Copy photograph of a large group of people, including several European American men posing sitting, and several Ho-Chunk men and women posing standing behi...
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Portrait of George Monegar on a Mule

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Description: A Ho-Chunk man on the right is sitting on a mule wearing a Sioux headdress along with other regalia, in a field in front of tents and trees. A European Ame...
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Madison Home Show

Date: 09 15 1950
Description: Madison's first home show in thirteen years was officially opened by Acting Manager George Forster when he cut the ribbon at the entrance to the exhibit ar...
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Performing Dogs

Date: 1910
Description: A small crowd watch as eight dogs perform in Capitol Park. There are circus or carnival tents erected along Pinckney Street, and the First National Bank (l...
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Khruschev Speaks

Date: 1960
Description: Nikita Khruschev of the Soviet Union speaks to a crowd at the airport in Indonesia. President Sukarno stands at his side, while Indonesian troops stand at ...
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Ferris Wheel

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Description: Elevated view of a Ferris Wheel on Main Street. Men and women are strolling about and many storefronts can be seen.
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Crowd at a Speech

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Description: Crowd of men and boys gathered around a tent, probably listening to a political or patriotic speech or debate.
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Crowd at a Speech

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Description: Crowd of men, women, girls and boys gathered around a tent, probably listening to a political or patriotic speech or debate.

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