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| Date: | 02 27 1989 |
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| Description: | Members of the foils teams of Catholic Memorial High School give a fencing demonstration to a class of elementary school students. |
| Date: | 02 27 1989 |
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| Description: | Student demonstrates his science project that tests the effectiveness of aspirin. |
| Date: | 06 22 1989 |
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| Description: | Boy mixes chocolate chip cookie dough at his YMCA daycare center in Big Cedar Lake. |
| Date: | 09 20 1988 |
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| Description: | A father gives his young son archery pointers in Kletzsch Park while his daughter looks on. |
| Date: | 05 14 1989 |
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| Description: | A man leans out a window to clean the outside glass. |
| Date: | 07 13 1989 |
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| Description: | A boy stretches to catch a water-filled balloon. |
| Date: | 08 1980 |
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| Description: | Airplanes entered in the 10th World Acrobatics Championships at Wittman Field in Oshkosh. The planes in the foreground are those of the Australian and Cana... |
| Date: | 08 07 1989 |
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| Description: | Jay Taylor, age 12, demonstrates his skill on stilts with a walk down E. Nock Street. |
| Date: | 03 28 1980 |
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| Description: | A frisbee is backlit by the sun as a boy reaches out to catch it. |
| Date: | 08 1983 |
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| Description: | A performance by the Earl Cherry acrobatic team at the EAA Convention and Fly-in. |
| Date: | 08 1983 |
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| Description: | The crowd at the Experimental Aviation Association Fly-in enjoyed a demonstration of World War II bombing. Here two planes fly through the swirling black s... |
| Date: | 07 07 1983 |
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| Description: | John Fitzsimmons and Barton Voegeli take a break from discing the fields to eat the birthday cake that Voegeli's wife made to celebrate the occasion. |
| Date: | 10 11 1981 |
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| Description: | Jim Niemann decorates dipped chocolates at his family's business, Niemann's Home Made Chocolate Shop. |
| Date: | 10 12 1984 |
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| Description: | Men wearing Ronald Reagan masks and dunce caps make their way through a crowd. |
| Date: | 10 24 1984 |
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| Description: | Walter Mondale campaigns for president in 1984 during his failed run against Ronald Reagan. |
| Date: | 03 09 1989 |
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| Description: | Calvin Johnson, right, Custer High School chess champion, takes on Paul Henk to defend his title. |
| Date: | 12 29 1987 |
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| Description: | Bored travelers at General Mitchell International Airport, apparently taking their cue from a droopy travel poster advertising vacations in the sunny Carib... |
| Date: | 06 24 1988 |
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| Description: | A caravan of carts full of recyclables is towed by the man who collected them to earn a little extra cash. |
| Date: | 07 07 1984 |
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| Description: | Steam locomotive No. 1385 moves along the tracks as part of the Butler Railroad Days. |
| Date: | 08 16 1984 |
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| Description: | Young men, workers for the Carson & Barnes Circus, carrying heavy circus tent poles through a field. |
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