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| Description: | A crowd of circus goers gathers outside the tent of the Cole Brothers Combined Side Shows, with acts announced by a barker standing on a platform. |
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| Description: | Three young boys, kneeling in the grass, peer into a circus tent at the elephants. |
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| Description: | A group of 20+ circus clowns posing informally while preparing for the ring. |
| Date: | 09 07 1963 |
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| Description: | Husband and wife prepare meal on top of a campfire grill. |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | A large group of circus performers and personnel, including a clown and band members, pose in front of a tent. |
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| Description: | Native Americans on the Menominee Reservation near Keshena, Wisconsin. A white man in the foreground appears to be drawing something out of camera range. T... |
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| Description: | A wigwam covered with store canvas. This cyanotype image is part of an exhibit about Native Americans prepared by Paul Vanderbilt, first curator of photogr... |
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| Description: | An unexplained group consisting of two white men, two white children, and two Native American women standing in front of a tent. The original caption stat... |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Personnel of the Walter L. Main show in 1904 and 1905, photographed outside a tent, include clowns, the driver of a four horse chariot, and air performers.... |
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| Description: | A group portrait of Norris & Rowe circus performers outside a tent at winter quarters, including clowns, riders, and high wire performers. |
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| Description: | An overview of the Norris & Rowe Circus setup on tour in Vancouver, B.C., Canada. The show toured Canada and Mexico and played to packed houses. |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | A circus clown sits astride a donkey outside a tent. |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | The 'Howdy' Roberts Band performing inside an International Harvester exhibit at the Iowa State Fair. Band members are playing a clarinet, trumpet, accordi... |
| Date: | 09 1957 |
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| Description: | Children at starting line of toy pedal tractor race near the International Harvester exhibit at the World's Conservation Exposition and Plowing Contests, S... |
| Date: | 09 1957 |
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| Description: | Six boys checking out the features of a new McCormick Farmall 450 tractor at the World's Conservation Exposition and Plowing Contest, September 17-20. |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | Young boy sitting at the wheel of a Farmall 1206 turbo tractor on display at a farm progress show. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Men and a boy examining a prototype "Tractor of the Future" in an exhibit during the St. Cloud combine promotion. Signs hanging around the display read: "L... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of International Harvester's exhibit of agricultural machinery at the Wabash plowing contest. Includes a Farmall 400 tractor (with Electrall?... |
| Date: | 1862 |
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| Description: | Officers of Company I, 7th Wisconsin Infantry: (left to right) Lt. Joseph N.P. Bird, Captain George H. Walther, and Lt. Christopher Lefler. Their Black ser... |
| Date: | 08 30 1954 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of crowd of bystanders gathered in front of the tent of Jimmy Demetral's Wrestling Arena on the midway at the Wisconsin State Fair, as male w... |
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