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| Community: | Portage |
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| County: | Columbia |
| Historic Name: | Columbia County Fairgrounds |
| Reference Number: | 56354 |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | This map of the Wisconsin Centennial Exposition is oriented with north to the right. The right hand margin includes "Outstanding Events of the Grandstand P... |
| Date: | 09 25 1929 |
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| Description: | Carbide & Carbon Chemicals Co. Pyrofax plant under construction, 130 Fair Oaks Avenue, looking towards a chain link fence and gate surrounding the plant. R... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the repair shop of the Madison Traction Company on Fair Oaks Avenue. An open streetcar is on the ramp, with a closed car from the Wingra P... |
| Date: | 04 12 1956 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin's Joji Tomei dodges a punch from Houston's Jack Fair during the NCAA boxing tournament. |
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| Description: | Two men posing standing in front of the Fair Store on Main Street. The man on the right is a dwarf and he is holding a cigar. Posters in the windows advert... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Angle Worm Station, at the foot of South Carroll Street on Lake Monona. The signs on the building advertise: the "Dane County Fair," "Nichols Sells Souveni... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | View across the lagoon to the Japanese Pavilion or Ho-o-den Palace on the Wooded Island at the World's Columbian Exposition. |
| Date: | 1977 |
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| Description: | Two women are standing and admiring quilts hanging on a clothesline at a show or fair at Villa Louis. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Corner view from unpaved street of the State Bank. A meat market is next door on the left. Flyers on the power poles are for an upcoming fair. A metal and ... |
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| Description: | View from University Heights looking south across open fields towards barns and fences. (written on envelope: Camp Randall, Old Dane Country Fair Grounds).... |
| Date: | 09 1963 |
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| Description: | Harness racing at a County Fair. The horses pulling sulkies are making the turn in front of the grandstand. Another building and trees are in the backgroun... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | View down unpaved street with a few wooden commercial buildings. The building in the center background has a group of people gathered in front, and along t... |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | Aerial view towards the southwest of International Harvester's. Burnham Harbor is in the center, with exhibit buildings on the left on Northerly Island, an... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | A painting of a dairy farm, which was part of the State Fair Centennial mural. |
| Community: | Milwaukee |
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| County: | Milwaukee |
| Historic Name: | E. Jacobs Apartments |
| Reference Number: | 81020 |
| Date: | 11 19 1951 |
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| Description: | Two auctioneers posing with books to be auctioned off at the Theta Sigma Phi alumnae "Holiday Book Fair" that will benefit the professional women in journa... |
| Date: | 08 1948 |
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| Description: | A crowd watches a young man throwing a baton into the air at the Wisconsin Centennial Exposition. Behind him is the "Alice In Dairyland" building, featurin... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Prior to the 1948 State Fair, artist Robert Hodgell traveled Wisconsin to study its many landscapes. He then produced a series of study sketches outlining ... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | The Fruits, Farm Crops building entrance is on the left, with three cars parked in front. |
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