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| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | A circus clown sits astride a donkey outside a tent. |
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| Description: | A male circus performer stands lengthwise on the back of a mule, while a female circus performer stands on the ground next to them. |
| Date: | 12 15 1913 |
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| Description: | A horse-drawn wagon, filled with University of Wisconsin students dressed as clowns, proceeds along a Madison street as part of a parade. Spectators line ... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Re-enactors demonstrating a replica of the first reaper built by Cyrus Hall McCormick in 1831. The man raking at the back of the reaper appears to be playi... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Re-enactors demonstrating a replica of the first reaper built by Cyrus Hall McCormick in 1831. The man raking at the back of the reaper appears to be playi... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Film crew setting up a scene in which actors playing the parts of Cyrus McCormick and his slave Jo Anderson operate a replica of McCormick's reaper of 183... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Still from the feature length motion picuture "Romance of the Reaper" showing a recreation of the demonstration of Cyrus McCormick's reaper of 1831 at Waln... |
| Date: | 10 08 1949 |
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| Description: | Third graders at Lincoln School as Bar-None ranch hands singing and square dancing around a "campfire" in the gymnasium. Four couples, boys dressed as cowb... |
| Date: | 09 26 1952 |
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| Description: | Walt Kelly arriving in Madison at the Chicago & North Western depot, is met by a person dressed as Pogo, one of his cartoon characters. |
| Date: | 09 26 1952 |
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| Description: | Cartoonist Walt Kelly at Central High School with a person dressed as one of his characters, Pogo. He is showing a drawing to a group of students. |
| Date: | 10 05 1944 |
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| Description: | Ruth Harris, acting curator of the Wisconsin Historical Society, is putting a man's coat from 1870 on a mannequin named Henry or Henrietta, if it is dresse... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Santa Claus surrounded by children at a Christmas Party sponsored by the United Automobile Workers Local 121 of Janesville. |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Dr. John Maynard Woodworth (1837-1879), an American physician and naturalist who is shown in a Russian-American fur trapper's c... |
| Date: | 12 20 1947 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of men and women at the Madison Dye Works party. Included in the portrait on the left is an accordion player. One man sitting on the floor ... |
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| Description: | Three men are dressed as women, wearing brasseries, and skirts made from newspaper. Part of a hosiery workers workshop skit at Highlander Folk School. |
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| Description: | A group of four hosiery workers participating in a skit and wearing accessories made from newspaper, as part of a Highlander Folk School workshop. Joie Wil... |
| Date: | 08 04 1948 |
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| Description: | Five clowns and two police officers, with Joseph L. "Roundy" Coughlin on a stretcher, at the Knights of Columbus - Zor Shrine Softball Show at Breese Steve... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Susan M. McCutcheon, member of the Menomonie High School class of 1905, depicted as an actress, posing on a fur rug. Part of a yearbook created by classmat... |
| Date: | 12 06 1948 |
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| Description: | Two alumnae members of the Madison chapter of Phi Beta, speech and music sorority, rehearsing for their part in the "Old English Revels" for members and th... |
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