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St. Paul Ice Carnival, Ice Palace

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Description: The ice palace at the St. Paul Ice Carnival. People are on and around a scaffold in the left foreground carving busts out of ice. Blocks of ice are on the ...
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St. Paul Ice Carnival Snow Figures

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Description: Night view of snow figures and east front of ice palace at the St. Paul Ice Carnival.
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Storming of Ice Palace by Fire King

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Description: St. Paul Ice Carnival. Night view of the storming of the ice palace by the fire king.
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St. Paul Ice Carnival, Ice Palace from the East

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Description: St. Paul Ice Carnival. Ice palace and sculptures from the east.
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St. Paul Ice Carnival, Ice Figure on Third Street

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Description: St. Paul Ice Carnival. Night view of ice figure on Third Street.
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Cook with Ice Sculpture

Date: 04 07 1933
Description: Ottoman Parrhysius, cold meat cook at the Loraine Hotel, posing with a parrot ice sculpture that he created.
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University of Wisconsin Hoofers Club Winter Carnival

Date: 02 14 1948
Description: Ice carving of the Olympic rings at the University of Wisconsin Hoofers Club Winter Carnival, with Bascom Hall and the Lincoln Monument in the background. ...
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Looking in at Main Entrance to the Palace #1536

Date: 1887
Description: A person is standing under the arched entrance of the Saint Paul Winter Carnival's ice palace. Inside the palace there is an ice animal sculpture on a plat...
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Courthouse after Ice Storm

Date: 1922
Description: Limbs litter the ground under trees heavily coated with ice on the Sauk County Courthouse Square after an ice storm.
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Statue of Liberty 02

Date: 1978
Description: Close-up of a man gazing at the Statue of Liberty installation on a frozen and snow-covered Lake Mendota. The sculpture was constructed by the Pail and Sho...
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The Statue of Liberty

Date: 1979
Description: View of the sunken Statue of Liberty created by legendary University of Wisconsin student Leon Varjian.
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Searching for the Red Dragon on Lake Monona

Date: 01 25 2015
Description: View from rocky shoreline towards two people, an adult and a child, walking across the ice and snow covered lake. In the middle of the lake is a dinosaur o...
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Snowy Winter Scene

Date: 1930
Description: Winter scene of a residential area. There is ice on the branches of the trees. The sidewalk is shoveled and the road is plowed, and an automobile is moving...
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Statue of Liberty in Lake Mendota

Date: 02 1979
Description: View of the forehead and torch of a replica of the Statue of Liberty installed by the Pail and Shovel Party on the snow-covered ice of Lake Mendota. Text o...

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