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| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | "The Grand Regatta, at Devil's Lake, Sauk County, June 21st & 22nd, 1877", with spectators watching rowing shells race. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | An elderly man stands in a room holding a small girl. Caption on negative reads, "Mary C. and Grandpa." |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | View of a horse-drawn float decorated with banners and flags and rows of pharmaceuticals on shelves. Two costumed children are posing in the back. A large ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | The J.B. Alexander family at the Wisconsin Central train depot. The young child in front holds a doll. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A group of men and women standing on a dock watching sailboats cast off. The tree covered shoreline is visible in the distance. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Franz Peters, Milwaukee Labor Day Parade Marshall, mounted on a horse on a neighborhood street. He is holding Freemason insignia in his right hand. Located... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Steamboat on Long Lake owned by Lorenzo Newman of Chippewa Falls. It is anchored at Newman Peninsula on Long Lake near a wet boathouse. The boat was operat... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Women's Relief Corps with umbrellas parading down the street. Stuffed eagle parading as "Old Abe." Directly behind the two flags are, from left to right: ... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Grand Army of the Republic in Memorial Day Parade, in front of the Freeman House. Leading the ranks is probably James Livingston, Alvin "Bean" Hagen is pro... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Four individuals sit in four-seat runabout parked in a wooded area. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a horse racing track and spectators. Sulkies, which are two-wheeled, one-person carriages drawn by a single horse, are racing. The race ... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Boys marching down a neighborhood street with toy guns. The leader is carrying a big stick. A boy in the back is carrying a flag. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Popular bathing beaches like this one on Lake Michigan offered relief from the heat as well as the opportunity to be seen in the latest fashions of the 191... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A boy is driving two turkeys yoked together that are pulling his small wagon loaded with vegetables. Painted on the side of the wagon: "Birdsell, South Ben... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Margery Bish sitting on the wooden stairs at Irvine Park. Two men are standing further back on the tree-lined path. Irvine Park was established in 1906 on ... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | View from crowd of a pair of trapeze acrobats performing at a street fair. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | View from sidewalk of a street carnival with tents, circus banners and a Ferris Wheel set up in the middle of the street. Signboards advertise ice cream an... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Walworth County Fair. A large crowd gathers around a carousel. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the Ponkratz girls sitting around the Christmas tree. Two girls are sitting on the left, with the older girl holding a doll, and the youn... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of crowd and observation tower at motorcycle races at the Dane County Fairgrounds. Men on raised platform are judging the races. |
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