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Circus Group

Date: 1892
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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Norris & Rowe Circus Personnel

Date: 
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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Men in Tent at Interstate Park

Date: 1936
Description: Two men seated inside a tent at the digging site at Interstate Park.
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German Prisoners of War Marching to Trucks

Date: 07 13 1945
Description: A work shift of German prisoners at a prisoner of war camp marching to trucks to be conveyed to work at a local cannery.
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Tents at Prisoner of War Camp

Date: 07 13 1945
Description: German prisoner of war camp with tents and fencing surrounding the area. Several people are on the grounds. Prisoners are working in the local cannery.
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Soldiers at Attention

Date: 1943
Description: A group of soldiers stand at attention while lines of men walk past. Men are working on a roof and scaffold around a steeple on a building in the backgroun...
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Woman Operating International A Tractor at Military Base

Date: 1942
Description: A woman uses an International Model A tractor to mow grass on the side of a hill at Camp Pendleton. In the background is an encampment of tents set up at t...
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Camp Pendleton Groundskeeping with International A

Date: 1944
Description: A woman wearing a wide-brimmed hat and overalls uses an International Model A tractor to maintain an area of brush at the Camp Pendleton airfield. Tents ar...
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Clam Camp

Date: 1888
Description: Elevated view of clam camp with tents, clam shell debris, and wooden buildings. A bluff rises up behind the buildings.
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Oliver Two Row Plow in Field

Date: 1914
Description: Rear view of an Oliver No.84 two row plow in field. In the background is a building with a sign that says: "1914 Agricultural Hall."
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Gift Cows, U.S. Marine Helicopter Base

Date: 06 1962
Description: Gift cows at the U.S. Marine Helicopter base in Soc Trang, Vietnam. Military and civilian men stand posing in a group in a field. Two of the men hold the r...
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Logging Clean-Up Crew

Date: 
Description: Group of men and a boy posed holding logging tools and standing in front of tents on the banks of a river, probably just south of Black River Falls. A man ...
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Obey and Young at Ground Zero

Date: 09 2001
Description: Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey (right) and Florida Congressman Young tour the destruction at the World Trade Center with an FBI guide a few days after...
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Obey and Young, Overwhelmed

Date: 09 2001
Description: Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey (right) looking at the World Trade Center site shortly after the 9/11 attacks. With Obey is Florida Congressman Bill Yo...
Postcard

Wire Grass Men

Date: 1910
Description: Photographic postcard of a group of men and boys gathered for a meal in a tent. There are benches along the sides of the table. One man sits on a wooden bo...
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Posing on the Cooks Tent

Date: 1912
Description: View looking down from riverbank of four businessmen and the log driving cook posing on the cooks tent barge during the log drive.
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Splitting Wood

Date: 08 1911
Description: The Gang split wood for the cooking fire at their camp by Sturgeon Lake.
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Findorff Temporary Headquarters After Fire

Date: 1909
Description: Group portrait of men posing in front of a tent set up outdoors as temporary headquarters for Findorff after a fire. Caption reads: "After the destruction ...
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After the Fire

Date: 06 01 1909
Description: Findorff staff carrying on the business in the tent after the fire.
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Outdoor Group Portrait

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Description: Stereograph of a group portrait of five people, including three men, two women, and an infant, posing on the grass in a wooded area. In the background, on ...

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