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| Date: | 09 30 1967 |
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| Description: | A woman sits with her ten children surrounding her and watches TV. |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Back cover of an advertising catalog for the Milwaukee Harvester Company. The cover features a color chromolithograph illustration of young boys racing hom... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of International Harvester's Milwaukee Works shop school baseball team. |
| Date: | 12 10 1968 |
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| Description: | Roland Sieg wiping pie from his face while smiling, after someone threw enough ping pong balls in a bucket to win a chance to hit him with a pie at a carni... |
| Date: | 12 22 1931 |
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| Description: | Men are looking out from the cab of a flatbed truck piled with toys at Central Fire Dept. No. 1. |
| Date: | 08 06 1987 |
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| Description: | Two women coax a stubborn calf at the State Fair. |
| Date: | 08 02 1963 |
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| Description: | Contestant baits her hook in Washington Park at the annual Milwaukee county park commission's fishing rodeo. |
| Date: | 08 22 1963 |
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| Description: | Group plays cards underneath the shady trees in Mitchell park. |
| Date: | 06 23 1963 |
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| Description: | Boy hits second base while baseman comes down from catching a high throw. |
| Date: | 05 31 1964 |
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| Description: | A circle of women talk, sew and thread needles around a Singer sewing machine. |
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| Description: | A woman dressed to play golf smiles as a bucket of golf balls is spilled at her feet. This is one of several demonstrations of strobe light functions at F... |
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| Description: | A man dressed in a football uniform demonstrates the art of drop-kicking the football. This is one of several demonstrations of strobe light functions at ... |
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| Description: | A bartender behind the bar is reflected in the mirror of a cigarette machine, while men drink beer and play cards in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Sunbathers relax on the piers at the swimming park on the Milwaukee River. |
| Date: | 06 30 1950 |
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| Description: | The 1950 Alice in Dairyland, Virgina Ruth Peterson, posed sitting on a fence after she was chosen for the title from a field of 18 in the final judging at ... |
| Date: | 08 26 1953 |
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| Description: | Alice in Dairyland, Mary Ellen Jenks, stands with a cow on a float representing the Golden Guernsey Dairy Co-op in the Dairy Parade at the Wisconsin State ... |
| Date: | 06 23 1983 |
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| Description: | Aimee Weiss(left), 10, and Darby Cusick, 11, both of Elm Grove, take a spin Thursday on one of the rides at Wirth Park. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | A sketch of the winning dress designed by Betty Lou Jahn of Milwaukee for the first Alice in Dairyland in 1948. Not only was the design worn by the first A... |
| Date: | 09 28 1958 |
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| Description: | Fred Haney, manager of the 1958 National League pennant winning Milwaukee Braves, confers with his American League counterpart, Casey Stengel, manager of t... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Alice in Dairyland, Margaret McGuire, and Elsie the Cow and her calf Beauregard, stand on a parade float with two men in downtown Milwaukee, while a male o... |
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