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Ring Toss at the Fair

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Description: Rex Roope of Kansas City got attention as he told his audience "all you have to do is ring the prize and it is yours. Step right up folks."
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4-H Band

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Description: 4-H Club band playing near the Police Station at the Wisconsin State Fair. In the background is the Agriculture Department's Milk House.
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Group on Old Cultivator

Date: 04 25 1970
Description: A group of audience members crowd onto an old cultivator near the Sound Storm stage. A line has formed behind them to the right, and there is a man with a ...
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Audience Members Sitting on Blankets

Date: 04 25 1970
Description: A group of audience members sit on blankets at the Sound Storm festival with a large crowd visible behind them.
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Young Woman Leaning against Stage Ramp

Date: 04 25 1970
Description: A barefoot young female audience member wearing a macrame shirt and smoking a cigarette leans against the ramp to the main stage at the Sound Storm music f...
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Dancing In the Audience

Date: 04 25 1970
Description: Overhead view of two people dancing in the crowded audience during the Sound Storm music festival. One of them is shirtless and the other wears a dark blue...
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Couple at Foot of Stage

Date: 04 25 1970
Description: A young couple poses at the foot of the Sound Storm stage with audience members crowding behind them. The young woman is wearing tie-dyed pants and the you...
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Couple Kissing

Date: 04 25 1970
Description: A young couple kisses in the audience of the Sound Storm music festival. The young woman is wearing a flower print dress and the young man is wearing a hat...
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Nude Man Dancing on U-Haul Truck

Date: 04 25 1970
Description: A nude man with long hair dances on top of a U-Haul moving truck. Two people in the foreground are near a Sunn brand amplifier on the bottom right.
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Sound Storm Festival Crowd

Date: 04 25 1970
Description: Elevated view of crowd of audience members at the Sound Storm music festival.
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Sound Storm Festival Crowd

Date: 04 25 1970
Description: Elevated view of crowd of audience members at the Sound Storm music festival. A few of the men in the foreground are shirtless, while others are wearing ei...
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Audience at Foot of Stage

Date: 04 25 1970
Description: A crowd of people in a circle are dancing at the foot of the stage at the Sound Storm music festival. Other audience members are standing around them watc...
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Festival Crowd Under Tents

Date: 04 25 1970
Description: Members of the Sound Storm music festival audience crowd under improvised tents partially supported by the handlebars of a motorcycle and tree limbs. There...
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Audience from Under Stage

Date: 04 25 1970
Description: A view of the crowded front row of the Sound Storm music festival audience from behind and under the stage.
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Clown Entertaining Children

Date: 08 01 1951
Description: A clown dressed in western costume entertaining children and youth during the Knights of Columbus and Zor Shrine softball game at Breese Steven's Field.
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Group of Children at School March

Date: 1913
Description: Spectators on bleachers are watching students participating in a "Grand March" at an annual school festival in Belwood Park.
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80th Anniversary Founding of Swiss Colony

Date: 08 16 1925
Description: A chorus of men singing on stage with a crowd watching. A group of officials seated on the right. Rolling farmland in the background.
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Creativity

Date: 08 21 1989
Description: Four young men are performing a dance routine outdoors (two are leaping in the air), while a group of people is watching them. Caption reads: "The dance gr...

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