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State Fair Side Show Attractions
State Fair barker announcing side show attractions to a crowd of children, featuring "Midget City, the World's Tiniest Entertainers" and "Baby Thelma, 619 Pounds of Feminine Beauty."
Art Fair
circa 1970-1979
Artists and vendors are sitting in wooden chairs next to displays of paintings for sale. Two women, dressed in traditional Swiss dresses, are looking at the paintings.
New Glarus Swiss Yodelers
Outdoor group portrait of a group of Swiss yodelers in costume. The gentleman in the center has a distinctive moustache.
Wilhelm Tell Festival Flag Bearers
1952
Four women in Swiss costume, three of whom are holding flags, at the Wilhelm Tell Festival.
Swiss Colony Monument
Statue in front of the Swiss Reform Church commemorating the first Swiss colony in 1845.
Stamping Cheeses
A male worker in a cheese-making factory places a Wisconsin stamp on cheeses.
