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| Date: | 05 27 1952 |
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| Description: | Bob Dick, WIBA Radio Program Director, interviews Harold Hayes, Director of the Vilas Zoo, at the "coming out" party and birthday of Winkie the elephant. |
| Date: | 06 28 1952 |
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| Description: | A zoo keeper is standing beside Winkie, the Vilas Zoo elephant, as she is eating her "birthday cake" to celebrate her birthday and second anniversary at th... |
| Date: | 03 13 1915 |
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| Description: | Several children clearing land for a new school playground. Three boys are using axes to chop a log, and other children are gathered near the fire. Three b... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Poster for the 4th of July celebration in Oostburg, Wisconsin. The featured entertainment consisted of acts for which the Ben Bergor Entertainment Agency w... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Man in work clothes holding a shovel loaded with dirt while another man watches in the background. The men were Civilian Conservation Corps workers at Devi... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Devil's Lake State Park Civilian Conservation Corps workers posed at rock formation, possibly Devil's Doorway. |
| Date: | 06 1935 |
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| Description: | Panoramic group portrait of Civilian Conservation Corps workers from Camps 2615 and 2669 at Devil's Lake State Park. All men are in uniform. Officers are f... |
| Date: | 07 11 1954 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the Zor Shrine clowns at Madison's Vilas Park Zoo. |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | A benefit gathering at James Rector People's Park to support the United Farmworkers (UFW) grape boycott. The UFW sign, with its eagle symbol, posted in th... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Schlitz Park Company in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with halftone views of the park gateway and a two-story open-air pavilion with an overlook,... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Prospective buyers examine artwork at an art fair at City Park. |
| Date: | 09 07 1900 |
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| Description: | View of a crowd in Grosnick's Woods during a picnic of the farmers of Dane County. |
| Date: | 06 1995 |
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| Description: | "Joe Lackas works on the playground behind the Theresa Learning Center." |
| Date: | 06 28 1932 |
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| Description: | J.C. Nisbet (center), an editor of Hoard's Dairyman magazine, addresses a crowd of men, women and children at the Walworth County 4-H Club Picnic at... |
| Date: | 03 28 1960 |
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| Description: | While en route from Oregon prison farm to Oscar Mayer and Co., three cows were frightened by an ambulance siren on the 700 block of West Washington Avenue ... |
| Date: | 06 30 1954 |
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| Description: | Madison Newspaper, Inc. hosts a picnic to recognize newspaper carriers, each an individual businessman, who carry the papers in any kind of weather. Gregor... |
| Date: | 02 03 1956 |
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| Description: | Hill captain Werner Schorr smooths snow near the base of the ski jump scaffold during the Blackhawk Ski Club's annual jumping tournament at their Tomahawk ... |
| Date: | 02 03 1956 |
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| Description: | Moritz Schorr spreads cinders on the slippery steps of the ski jump scaffold during the Blackhawk Ski Club's annual jumping tournament at their Tomahawk Ri... |
| Date: | 03 12 2011 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a large crowd gathered on the Capitol Square to protest the passage of the Act 10 bill and greet the return of the 14 Senate Democrats who... |
| Date: | 06 19 1925 |
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| Description: | Man sitting in a delivery truck near a park. There is no driver's side door, but there is a rolled-up cloth at the top of the door. The truck bed is open. ... |
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