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| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | View looking over Fort Dells, with cars parked in the foreground. |
| Date: | 08 1948 |
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| Description: | A young boy inflates a balloon at the Wisconsin Centennial Exposition. Three people stand behind him near the "Merry Go Round" building, and in the backgro... |
| 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: | 07 1957 |
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| Description: | Couple standing with dinosaur in Prehistoric Land, owned by Charles Van Wie. |
| Date: | 08 1948 |
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| Description: | A man and two young children, a boy and a girl, ride an amusement park ride at the Wisconsin Centennial Exposition. Behind them written on the wall of a bu... |
| Date: | 08 1948 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of a "Pronto-Dog" stand at the Wisconsin Centennial Exposition staffed by three people. Behind the stand is an amusement park ride. |
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| Description: | Two men, dressed in old western costumes, are pretending to fight each other for the entertainment of a crowd at Fort Dells. |
| Date: | 08 1968 |
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| Description: | View of "The Old Woman that Lived in a Shoe" house in Pleasure Island Amusement Park. |
| Date: | 07 1968 |
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| Description: | A team of four horses are pulling a stagecoach through the Pleasure Island Amusement Park. |
| Date: | 02 27 1957 |
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| Description: | Four golfers with stand with their hands in their pockets while watching a fifth golfer, Frank (Moon) Molinaro power off a drive. The other four include, l... |
| 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: | A young girl is enjoying a carnival ride at Peppermint Park. She is probably a daughter of Lewis Arms. |
| Date: | 06 1961 |
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| Description: | Mamie and Rita Arms, daughters of Lewis Arms, sharing a midway ride at Peppermint Park. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | View of developed beachfront, including roller-coaster, hotels, pier and seagulls. |
| Date: | 06 22 1978 |
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| Description: | A boy enjoying an amusement ride on swings at the East Side Businessmen's Club carnival at Milwaukee Street and Fair Oaks Avenue. Other riders, carnival-go... |
| Date: | 07 20 1925 |
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| Description: | View towards groups of people riding in carts as part of an amusement park ride. Two boys in the foreground are standing and watching at the perimeter of t... |
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