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| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Actor and singer Bing Crosby getting out of a drizzling rain and into an International Scout 4x4 pickup during his 23rd Annual Pro-Amateur Golf Championshi... |
| Date: | 1854 |
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| Description: | Drawing of the Porcupine Mountains on Lake Superior. A deer is standing in the lake drinking water. A man is on the rock ledge above the shoreline and is a... |
| Date: | 05 30 1908 |
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| Description: | The Great Wallace Shows, horses and wagons, were flooded out by a sudden cloudburst. |
| Date: | 08 03 1981 |
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| Description: | Despite rain and fog, people turned out to enjoy a street festival sponsored by the Guadalupe Center at 239 W. Washington Street in Milwaukee. There were e... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester's line of Osborne harvesting machinery. The color illustration shows a man and a woman standing... |
| Date: | 06 14 1944 |
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| Description: | Children in swimming suits playing in a miniature lake created by heavy rains in the area of Fox and Prospect Avenues. |
| Date: | 09 09 1945 |
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| Description: | Archbishop Moses E. Kiley of Milwaukee and other clergy at the altar on Breese Stevens Field celebrating Holy Hour. Intentions of the Holy Hour for this ye... |
| Date: | 11 25 1919 |
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| Description: | Submarine float for parade and bonfire celebrating Armistice Day. |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Drawing of a tent stretched between two trees and a fire with cookware in the rain. |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of an elevated view of the Circus Parade on a rainy day. Crowds of people line the street, and many are holding umbrellas. |
| Date: | 09 27 1959 |
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| Description: | Adlai Stevenson and Governor Gaylord Nelson attend the Wisconsin-Stanford football game which turned into a very rainy event. They left the game at half ti... |
| Date: | 09 26 1959 |
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| Description: | Rain dampens fans' spirit as they nestled in the shelter of the field house under the scoreboard during the first quarter of the W Club Day football game. |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Visitors to the Wisconsin State Fair running for shelter at the onset of a sudden rain shower. |
| Date: | 05 25 1961 |
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| Description: | A woman and three children standing under umbrellas behind a barrier in the street during Madison's Outdoor Living Week activities. |
| Date: | 07 21 1961 |
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| Description: | A little girl beats the rain in her raincoat while eating goodies at the Dane County Junior Fair. |
| Date: | 05 04 1963 |
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| Description: | Elzie Higginbottom, U.W. star quarter-miler, winning his event at an outdoor track meet against Iowa. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Austrian supply column of soldiers on horseback and on wagons trudging through the rain and mud in Serbia during World War I. |
| Date: | 12 03 1953 |
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| Description: | A person is bicycling around Capitol Square in the rain. |
| Date: | 08 1976 |
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| Description: | Photograph of an original oil painting of a dramatic sky scene by Sid Boyum. The works shows a broad cloudy sky over a dark rural landscape, divided by a n... |
| Date: | 05 15 1957 |
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| Description: | Children frolicking in rain water which collected in the Milwaukee Railroad underpass on North Park Street during Tuesday afternoon's heavy downpour. There... |
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