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| 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... |
| Community: | Kennan |
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| County: | Price |
| Historic Name: | HAWKINS ROAD SCHOOL |
| Reference Number: | 19008 |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Three men in Arab dress pose in front of the base of an obelisk on the Midway at the World's Columbian Exposition. A gentleman in western dress also poses ... |
| 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... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of employees and patrons gathered around a beer and sandwich concession stand on the midway at the Wisconsin State Fair, where Gettelman On T... |
| Community: | Menomonie |
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| County: | Dunn |
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| Reference Number: | 236394 |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | A cyanotype photograph of a man in oriental dress on the Midway of the World's Columbian Exposition. He stands behind a gate; a sign warns, "No Admittance ... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | A cyanotype view of Cairo Street on the midway of the World's Columbian Exposition. An Egyptian with a large drum rides a camel as men and boys watch. The ... |
| 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... |
| Community: | Aurora |
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| County: | Florence |
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| Reference Number: | 22361 |
| Community: | Appleton |
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| County: | Winnebago |
| Historic Name: | Gem Roller Rink |
| Reference Number: | 168421 |
| 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... |
| Community: | Menasha |
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| County: | Winnebago |
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| Reference Number: | 168441 |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | The screw passenger and freight vessel, Manistee. Faint typing on picture describes the loss of the Manistee on November 16, 1883. The ship <... |
| 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 ... |
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