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| Date: | 1977 |
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| Description: | A Midway Motor Lodge, with the Interstate traffic just behind it. |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Midway performer (left) at the Wisconsin State Fair and an audience, primarily boys and men listening to an unseen speaker. |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | A costumed young woman who danced as part of the Carioca Revue stands on a stage in the midway of the Wisconsin State Fair, perhaps waiting to perform. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Midway Barn at Taliesin, the summer home of architect Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Fellowship. Taliesin is located in the vicinity of Spring Green, ... |
| Date: | 07 16 1971 |
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| Description: | Bette Brown of Hartland pulls her somewhat reluctant cows across the midway at the Waukesha County Fairgrounds. |
| Date: | 07 26 1966 |
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| Description: | Several young people pause behind the fence to look at a midway ride in action at the Washington County Junior Fair. |
| Date: | 06 1961 |
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| Description: | Mamie and Rita Arms, daughters of Lewis Arms, sharing a midway ride at Peppermint Park. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | View of the Midway Barns, constructed in 1938 on the farmland adjoining Taliesin, Frank Lloyd Wright's residence and architectural school complex. Taliesin... |
| Date: | 08 1948 |
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| Description: | Crowded midway at the Wisconsin Centennial Exposition. Signs above booths read "Circus Candy," "Cigarettes," "Snow Balls," "Souvenirs," "Guess?" and "Aqua ... |
| Date: | 08 30 1954 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of crowd of bystanders gathered in front of the tent of Jimmy Demetral's Wrestling Arena on the midway at the Wisconsin State Fair, as male w... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Midway area of the Wisconsin State Fair, showing a truck advertising peanuts at 5 cents in the center background. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a community fair with tents set up for exhibits. Two buildings with signs are just beyond the tents on the midway, with signs that read, o... |
| Date: | 08 12 1967 |
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| Description: | A smiling Governor Knowles surveys the Wisconsin State Fairground from the top of the giant Ferris Wheel on the fair's midway. He spent the day at the Stat... |
| Date: | 09 25 1998 |
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| Description: | "The Country Retreat is midway between Hartford and Slinger on Hwy. 60. We are joined by Bob & Jean White of Williamston, MI. Bob and Jim were friends in t... |
| Date: | 08 1948 |
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| Description: | A teenage boy caught looking directly at the photographer while riding an amusement park ride at the Wisconsin Centennial Exposition midway in the early ev... |
| Date: | 03 12 1956 |
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| Description: | View of Water Street, looking north. Commercial buildings stand on either side of the street, including Lang's, Jack & Tony Superette, Ace Hardware, and Mi... |
| Date: | 08 24 1937 |
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| Description: | Worker moving Trans World Airlines DC-3 (DC-2?) airplane with an International industrial tractor outside the TWA hangar at Chicago's Municipal Airport (la... |
| Date: | 12 07 1952 |
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| Description: | Fauerbach Brewery, 651-653 Williamson Street, at the corner of South Blount Street and Williamson Street. The view includes R.J. Olson Glass Co., 625 Willi... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | This map produced just after Word War I shows the proposed location for a veterans' hospital in the Eau Claire-Chippewa Falls region. Highways, rail lines ... |
| Date: | 07 1973 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising for the Dane County Jr. Fair at the Madison fairgrounds, July 18 through 22, 1973. Features a screen printed illustration of a clown, a ... |
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