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Female Snake Charmer

Date: 1935
Description: A female snake charmer with the Cole Brothers Circus, watched by two children.
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Mr. S. Schafer with Snakes

Date: 12 21 1933
Description: Mr. S. Schafer in laboratory coat, holding one large and one small snake.
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George W. Hall, Jr., Circus Performer

Date: 1868
Description: George W. Hall, Jr., noted Evansville, Wisconsin, circus performer, as a young boy, holding a snake and wearing copper-toed boots.
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Snake Charmer

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Description: A smiling woman poses with three Pine(?) snakes around her neck and in her hands. She is standing outside, before an over-turned bench and trees, wearing a...
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Poster Celebrating "The International Safari"

Date: 02 05 1929
Description: Poster or display board describing an expedition across Africa with an International truck. The truck used for the expedition was later promoted by the com...
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Women Holding Snakes

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Description: Three women sit on a bench, two of them holding Pine? snakes, while the other is in the process of picking up a dog.
Print

Union Man Fishing in Secession Pond

Date: 1860
Description: A man dressed in a blue jacket and light blue trousers fishes in a "SECESSION POND." He is sitting on the Union flag. His fishing line has a Union flag on ...
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Grace May Hall as a Circus Child

Date: 1891
Description: Grace May Hall, as a five-year-old circus child, with a large show python coiled at her feet and a smaller show snake around her neck.
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Portrait of Lewis Adam Struble

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Description: Lewis Adam Struble is seated in the corner of a room with a number of beaver pelts displayed on the walls behind him. He is sitting in a chair wearing a co...
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Portrait of Lewis Adam Struble

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Description: Lewis Adam Struble is seated in the corner of a room with a number of beaver pelts displayed on the walls behind him. He is sitting in a chair wearing a co...
Poster

"Let's Drive the Snakes Out of Ireland"

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Description: Drawing of a male face with a green fluffy beard and hair, eyeglasses, and a dark cap, with his hand holding a curved green bat labeled "Union House." Alon...
Poster

"Help Me Drive Snakes Out Of Ireland"

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Description: A woman with green hair is holding a green stick with the text "Ohio" on it. Drawn in green is a snake at top right, wearing a hat, and clover leaves. On t...
Drawing

Ice Fishing Can Kill You!

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Description: Two elephants and two worms are swimming underwater below an ice fisherman. The tipsy looking man, dressed like Santa's elf in a red hat with a white pom-p...
Drawing

Sandals

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Description: Drawing of red-bearded leprechaun with a pipe in his mouth. He is holding up a curved bat (perhaps a shillelagh) in one hand and an oversized three-leafed ...
Print

Announcement to Farewell Party

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Description: Graphic design of a man lying in bed, with his arms out holding a liquor bottle in one hand and a half-filled glass in the other hand. There is an elongate...
Photograph

Women's Club of Madison Presents "Man and His God"

Date: 04 16 1957
Description: Madison Women's Club presents an original play "Man and His God" to raise money for scholarships. Appearing as Adam and Eve (left) are Richard Aukerma of 6...
Photograph

Snake!

Date: 1916
Description: Three men are displaying a very long snake. Names from left to right: W.A. Holt, Rev. Ernest Wright, and W.M. Comstock. Caption reads: "Snake!"
Postcard

The Friendly Buckhorn

Date: 1950
Description: Text on front reads: "The 'Friendly Buckhorn,' Rice Lake, Wisconsin." Text on the reverse reads: "No vacation trip to Northern Wisconsin is complete withou...

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