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| Description: | A group of boys, supervised by adult men, set up wooden folding chairs in a circus tent. |
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| Description: | A clown in the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus standing outside a tent near a wagon, with his left hand holding onto a tent rope. He is wearing a beret-style hat,... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | People stand in line to purchase tickets at a Barnum & Bailey Circus ticket wagon near the main tent. |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | Clyde Beatty, with the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus, sits on a chair outside a circus tent with two young tigers. |
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| Description: | "Diamond Kitty," a performer with the Shrine Circus, poses with a large group of people in front of the sideshow tent housing the "World's Fattest People" ... |
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| Description: | A group of 11 circus clowns poses with a pretty young female performer in a circus tent. This could possibly be part of a movie set. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Ringling Brothers circus wagons, horses, and tents, with the Chicago skyline in the background. |
| Date: | 05 26 1945 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of Boy Scouts, Troop #45 from Stoughton, gathered around a campfire, at Four Lakes Council Camporee in Olin Park. |
| Date: | 09 05 1943 |
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| Description: | Gosling's Sales and Service display at West Side Business Men's Association harvest festival featuring coffee grinders, meat grinders and Holcomb & Hoke Ma... |
| Date: | 07 07 1934 |
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| Description: | Inside the Fuller and Johnson Co. tent at the Outdoor Expo, rustic scene featuring 4 Caille outboard motors. "Caille the only outboards with gear shift con... |
| Date: | 06 28 1933 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of eight male University of Wisconsin tent colony officers. One man is holding a gun, and another is holding a shovel. The camp is also know... |
| Date: | 07 06 1932 |
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| Description: | Officers of Camp Gallistella, formerly known as the tent colony, posing in front of a tent home. Also known as Camp Gallistella on the south shore of Lake ... |
| Date: | 06 27 1931 |
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| Description: | Path, "main street," through the woods at the University of Wisconsin Tent Colony. Also known as Camp Gallistella on the south shore of Lake Mendota, west ... |
| Date: | 06 27 1931 |
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| Description: | Man sawing wood in front of a tent in the woods at the University of Wisconsin Tent Colony. The tent is set up on a wood platform. Also known as Camp Galli... |
| Date: | 06 20 1931 |
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| Description: | Nine members of the junior and senior class at the University of Wisconsin are sitting in a semi-circle dressed as Native Americans. They are smoking the p... |
| Date: | 08 12 1930 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Ringling Brothers Circus at Madison airport from the top of a hangar located on Coolidge between North and Kedzie. |
| Date: | 08 22 1929 |
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| Description: | A man standing in the Madison Roofing Company booth at the Dane County Fair displaying various samples of roofing materials. |
| Date: | 08 22 1929 |
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| Description: | Sales personnel pose in the Silent Glow oil burner booth with an oil burning kitchen stove, furnaces, and portable styles of oil burners at the Dane Count... |
| Date: | 08 22 1929 |
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| Description: | Two salesmen posing in the Pyrofax gas appliance booth at the Dane County Fair. |
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| Description: | Five circus performers, female and male, sit or stand astride a horse with a tent as a backdrop. |
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