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| Description: | Aldo Leopold, UW Professor of Wildlife Management, posing with binoculars around his neck. He is about to embark on an inspection and bird-watching tour of... |
| Date: | 06 15 1930 |
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| Description: | William McDonald and Merl Buck posing in front of a small airplane with several Air Show trophies on the ground in front of them. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Cicero Field flight instructors Edward Finan (left) and DeLloyd Thompson seated in a Wright Model B airplane at the Chicago International Air Show. The pla... |
| Date: | 08 18 1935 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising the air show held to mark the dedication of the airport in Waukesha, an event sponsored by the Waukesha Aviation Club. Present to dedica... |
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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: | 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. |
| Date: | 01 31 1934 |
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| Description: | Helen King, side view, modeling a 1934 rubber bathing suit, made by U.S. Rubber Co. She is also wearing a bathing cap and sandals, and is holding an inflat... |
| Date: | 05 23 1933 |
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| Description: | Janette Serrec, lecturer and writer on the "Fine Art of Successful Living," standing beside a Hawthorne bicycle from Ward's. She is wearing jodhpurs and bo... |
| Date: | 04 03 1931 |
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| Description: | Harold Smith, University of Wisconsin football tackle, working his way through school by cleaning windshields at a Valvoline station. |
| Date: | 1868 |
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| 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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| Description: | Seated portait of Amelia Feeley, supposedly the first circus bareback rider to perform in long dresses. Ms. Feeley hold a fan in her lap. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A farmer shows off his percheron colt at the Wisconsin State Fair. At the turn of the century when a farmer's livelihood was dependent on his horses, the d... |
| Date: | 06 1944 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Henry J. "Hank" McCormick, sports editor of the Wisconsin State Journal. |
| Date: | 06 28 1945 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Nancy Keenan standing on a beach in a lifeguard swimming suit. She is one of 7 women lifeguards out of a group of 19 who patrol the Madison be... |
| Date: | 12 27 1945 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Charles J. Allen, president of the Madison Bowling Association. Mr. Allen was a barber by trade and a co-partner in a radio and appliance store... |
| Date: | 04 17 1947 |
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| Description: | Pictured left to right are Louis Waldorf, manager, and E.C. "Ole" Severson, owner, of the recently remodeled Burr Oaks public golf course on South Park Str... |
| Date: | 04 13 1956 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Milwaukee Braves traveling secretary George Edward "Duffy" Lewis. After a notable major league career with the Red Sox, Yankees and Senators, L... |
| Date: | 12 23 1948 |
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| Description: | Joseph L. "Roundy" Couglin, with his arm around the shoulders of Connie Schwoegler, who is holding a bowling ball. |
| Date: | 08 05 1949 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Earl Oakey, a ticket taker at Breese Stevens Field for nearly twenty-five years. |
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