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Axe Chopping at the Lumberjack Bowl

Date: 1970
Description: A shirtless man is standing on top of a log ready to chop a log with an axe. A crowd of people are watching from stands behind him.
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Log Chopping Contest at the Logging Congress

Date: 09 1976
Description: A man is standing on top of a braced wood block. He is bending over as he swings his ax at the wood block on which he is standing. A crowd of people are wa...
Postcard

Horicon and Rice Lake

Date: 1909
Description: View of a crowd watching two groups of men racing while pulling carts. The runners on the right are wearing jerseys that read: "Horicon." Caption reads: "H...
Photograph

Badgers Football Game

Date: 11 12 2016
Description: Elevated view of the Camp Randall Stadium as Andrew Endicott is preparing to kick a field goal in a Badgers Homecoming game against Illinois.
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Toboggan Run

Date: 1937
Description: A young man is steering a toboggan with three others on board down a long course. Spectators line the run on the right.
Postcard

National Ski Tournament

Date: 1910
Description: View from the bottom of a ski jump in Eau Claire, the host of a national ski tournament. Several people are standing along the sides of the landing area wh...
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Milwaukee Braves Season Opening Game

Date: 04 12 1955
Description: Wisconsin Governor Walter Kohler ready to throw out the first pitch of the 1955 season to Milwaukee Braves catcher Del Crandall. Pictured in the lower left...
Photograph

Women's Western Open

Date: 06 23 1955
Description: The Maple Bluff Country Club clubhouse with a crowd watching the 26th Annual Women's Western Open.
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Women's Western Open Golf Championship

Date: 06 24 1955
Description: Women spectators watch as a field of 20 professionals and 50 top amateurs began a 72-hole competition in the 26th Annual Women's Western Open golf champion...
Photograph

Boxing Match at University of Wisconsin Field House

Date: 1948
Description: Elevated view of a full crowd at the Field House, including people sitting on the floor in chairs watching the boxers in a boxing ring in the center of the...
Photograph

Babe Ruth at Bat

Date: 
Description: View across field towards Babe Ruth at bat during a baseball game, taken from ground level. Ruth's right side is to the camera and he is holding the bat ab...
Photograph

Green Bay Packers vs. Detroit

Date: 1962
Description: Green Bay Packer's Quarterback Bart Starr and Center Jim Ringo in formation during a football game against the Detroit Tigers. Two referees observing, and ...
Photograph

Football Crowd

Date: 1965
Description: Elevated view of crowd. Umbrellas shelter some spectators sitting in the stands at a football game.
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Spectators' Sport

Date: 1978
Description: Boys playing cards in the stands at a basketball game.
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Varsity

Date: 1975
Description: A crowd of students are waving their hands while singing "Varsity" at a football game.
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Race at Road America

Date: 07 1983
Description: View from the stands of an automobile race at Road America near Elkhart Lake. Large striped tents are in the background on the right.
Postcard

North View of Grand Stand at Inter County Fair

Date: 11 19 1908
Description: Text on front reads: "North view of Grand Stand at Inter County Fair, Spring Green, Wis." Two women are walking on the track in the foreground. In the back...
Postcard

Helge Solberg in Mid-air

Date: 02 10 1911
Description: Text on front reads: "Helge Solberg, Stoughton, in Mid-air on his 121 Foot Leap. Tournament Feb. 10, 1911." Helge Solberg ski jumping at a tournament, the ...
Drawing

6 Day Bike Race - 1878

Date: 1878
Description: Illustration of a crowd watching bicyclists on penny-farthings, who are racing around a track inside a tent. Below illustration is the text "From the Priva...

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