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Adlai Stevenson at Wisconsin-Stanford Football Game

Date: 09 27 1959
Description: Adlai Stevenson and Governor Gaylord Nelson attend the Wisconsin-Stanford football game which turned into a very rainy event. They left the game at half ti...
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Running for Cover

Date: 1965
Description: Visitors to the Wisconsin State Fair running for shelter at the onset of a sudden rain shower.
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Rain on a Dreary Winter Day

Date: 12 03 1953
Description: A person is bicycling around Capitol Square in the rain.
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Elzie Higginbottom, U.W. Quarter-Miler Runner

Date: 05 04 1963
Description: Elzie Higginbottom, U.W. star quarter-miler, winning his event at an outdoor track meet against Iowa.
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Outdoor Living Week

Date: 05 25 1961
Description: A woman and three children standing under umbrellas behind a barrier in the street during Madison's Outdoor Living Week activities.
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Summer Fun

Date: 1975
Description: A woman spraying water upwards with a hose to create a "rain shower." She is wearing a bikini.
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W Club Day

Date: 09 26 1959
Description: Rain dampens fans' spirit as they nestled in the shelter of the field house under the scoreboard during the first quarter of the W Club Day football game.
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Crowd Has Fun in the Rain at the Dane County Junior Fair

Date: 07 21 1961
Description: A little girl beats the rain in her raincoat while eating goodies at the Dane County Junior Fair.
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Children Playing in Flooded Street

Date: 06 14 1944
Description: Children in swimming suits playing in a miniature lake created by heavy rains in the area of Fox and Prospect Avenues.
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Holy Hour at Breese Stevens Field

Date: 09 09 1945
Description: Archbishop Moses E. Kiley of Milwaukee and other clergy at the altar on Breese Stevens Field celebrating Holy Hour. Intentions of the Holy Hour for this ye...
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Armistice Day Parade

Date: 11 25 1919
Description: Submarine float for parade and bonfire celebrating Armistice Day.
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Boys Make Big Splash

Date: 05 15 1957
Description: Children frolicking in rain water which collected in the Milwaukee Railroad underpass on North Park Street during Tuesday afternoon's heavy downpour. There...
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Soggy but Fun

Date: 08 03 1981
Description: Despite rain and fog, people turned out to enjoy a street festival sponsored by the Guadalupe Center at 239 W. Washington Street in Milwaukee. There were e...
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Oil Painting of Summer Cloud

Date: 08 1976
Description: Photograph of an original oil painting of a dramatic sky scene by Sid Boyum. The works shows a broad cloudy sky over a dark rural landscape, divided by a n...

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