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Majorettes

Date: 11 03 1962
Description: Majorettes dancing in a parade. They were members of the Milwaukee Continentals marching band.
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St. Paul Ice Carnival Parade

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Description: Elevated view of the St. Paul Ice Carnival; royal family equipages in street parade with crowd lining street. There is a real estate agency and a laundry o...
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Columbus Day Parade in Wausau

Date: 1892
Description: View of a large Columbus Day parade from Jackson and Third Streets. In the extreme right foreground is Conrad Althen's Store, and the Anderson and Larson S...
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Wadhams Oil Co. Float

Date: 08 28 1937
Description: Wadhams Oil Company float in the Elks Parade, with a child "driving" a Mobile Oil Flying Red Horse symbol. The float is on E. Doty Street with the Post Off...
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"McCormick Day" at Fountain City

Date: 1890
Description: Elevated view of people, horses, and wagons gathered in the center of Fountain City to celebrate McCormick Day. Scherer's Hotel is at left. The event was o...
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People Gathered on Pinckney Street

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Description: Elevated view of people gathered on Pinckney Street, possibly waiting for a parade. In the distance another group of people, some of whom are carrying a ba...
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Circus Wagon in Parade

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Description: Slightly elevated view over sidewalk towards eight horses drawing a circus wagon in parade. The parade is coming from the circus ground at the white pine g...
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Elephants in Circus Parade

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Description: Elevated view of a crowd watching elephants in a circus parade. In the foreground are power lines and telephone poles.
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Water Wagon Pulled by Horses

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Description: Slightly elevated view towards a horse-drawn water sprinkler on a wagon approaching an arch over the intersection during a parade. People are gathered on t...
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Crowd Watching Parade

Date: 1898
Description: View of crowd watching a parade. Elevated view taken from the Van Schaick studio; the same building housed the telephone exchange.
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Memorial Day Parade

Date: 1902
Description: Grand Army of the Republic in Memorial Day Parade, in front of the Freeman House. Leading the ranks is probably James Livingston, Alvin "Bean" Hagen is pro...
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Parade of Women Wearing Mortarboards

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Description: Parade of women passing the Freeman House, wearing mortarboards and carrying a Union High School flag with the date 1897.
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Women and Children in Parade

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Description: Parade of women and children on sidewalk through town. They are going past Peter Olson's blacksmith shop (foreground), fire-bell tower, and the City Hall w...
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Fourth of July Industrial Parade

Date: 07 1886
Description: Intersection of 4th and Steele Streets facing east. The building in the lower right is the Knipfer building, now Algoma Mercantile. Bunting adorns the Boed...
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Temperance Procession

Date: 07 1892
Description: Procession of children and adults at the second convention of the Wisconsin Loyal Temperance League at Delavan. The LTL was a branch of the Women's Christi...
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Firemen's Parade

Date: 06 1908
Description: The Lake Mills band and fire company lead the parade during a fire company competition in their home town.
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Four Officers on Horse-Drawn Carriage

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Description: Four officers are riding in a carriage labeled "Fire Department" pulled by two horses. They appear to be part of a parade. There is a crowd of people stand...
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Mobile Civil Defense Test

Date: 10 31 1951
Description: Elevated view of a parade of vehicles for Wisconsin's first civil defense support battalion test in Madison approaching along South Carroll Street and turn...
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Scrap Metal Parade

Date: 11 20 1951
Description: Scrap metal trucks travel along South Carroll Street during the Cambridge Scrap Metal Parade on the Capitol Square. The Park Hotel is in the background. Pr...
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Memorial Day Activities

Date: 05 30 1952
Description: Elevated view of part of the crowd watching as military units from Truax Field march down South Carroll Street during the Memorial Day parade at Madison's ...

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