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| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | John Kaminski (who can barely be seen here in his Lincoln Beachey checkered cap), his mechanic, and onlookers attempting to ready his Curtiss pusher for fl... |
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| Description: | Crowd of people in front of the Education Building at the State Fair. Caption reads: "Education Building, Wisconsin State Fair, Milwaukee." |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Harness race at the Wisconsin State Fairgrounds. Caption at top left reads: "Partial view, Grand Stand and Race Track, Wisconsin State Fair, Milwaukee." |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | The Allis Chalmers Club House. Caption reads: "Allis Chalmers Club House, West Allis, Wis." |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | A crowd surrounds a 10-foot mechanical mannequin of Alice in Dairyland at an Alice display for the Wisconsin Centennial Exposition. The Alice could raise h... |
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| Description: | Color postcard of a bathing place on the water. A hill is behind the building, and there are a signs for a swimming school and the Wm. Bechstein Co. Severa... |
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| Description: | Color view from the river. Foreground has three people in a boat. A bridge over the river, and a boat to the left are in the center. City Hall is in the ... |
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| Description: | Hand-colored view from the water. Buildings are in the background, a boat and bridge are in the center. A small boat with people in it are in the foregroun... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A boat with five people are on a lake surrounded by trees. Behind them are several docked boats. In the background is a park area with a red-roofed buildin... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Path along Lake Michigan beach. Below are people walking along the shoreline. Further down the path is a small group of people. Pilings are in the water in... |
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| Description: | St. Josephat Church and School from Kosciuszko Park. The classic style church with dome is across a body of water. Three boats with boaters are out rowing ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from bridge looking over at a hill leading down to bath houses and fenced-in swimming areas for beginners. Establishment of Wm. Bechstein. Ca... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a large group of school children exercising in the schoolyard. Boys and girls are on separate sides of the yard. All are the students are ... |
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| Description: | A group of spectators including men, women, and children standing at a railing watching some type of sporting event in a field where a large crowd is gathe... |
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| Description: | Group portrait of a crowd of men, women, and children standing on bleachers for a sporting event. In the lower right-hand side there are several boys who h... |
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| Description: | Crowd of men and women on grandstand bleachers watching a sporting event. |
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| Description: | A crowd of mostly men sitting on bleachers in front of a brick building, all watching some type of sporting event. One man is walking in front of the bleac... |
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| Description: | A group of six men sitting and standing near a barrier wall at a sporting event with bleachers in the background. They are all wearing jackets and hats, an... |
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| Description: | View from track towards a crowd of men, women, and children in front of and behind a fence at a sporting event. On the left, a man who is possibly a police... |
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| Description: | View from the street of John Hahn standing on the right with a horse hitched to a passenger wagon. In the center is the furniture moving wagon he owns, in ... |
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