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Explore more than 100,000 collection items online through the Society’s digital collections. For over two decades, we’ve been scanning, photographing, and digitizing materials from our collections, creating a rich and growing digital archive that brings history closer to you.
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Tilt-A-Whirl
1968
Four girls are sitting in a tilt-a-whirl amusement ride. In the background people are riding on a Ferris wheel.
Light Show at the Fair
July 26, 1966
Several young people pause behind the fence to look at a midway ride in action at the Washington County Junior Fair.
Full Moon over the Dane County Junior Fair
July 17, 1962
Night view of the full moon above the Tilt-A-Whirl ride prior to the opening day of the Dane County Junior Fair.
Pie in the Face
December 10, 1968
Roland Sieg wiping pie from his face while smiling, after someone threw enough ping pong balls in a bucket to win a chance to hit him with a pie at a carnival at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
School Crossing Guard
September 10, 1987
A traffic crossing guard reading while she is waiting for a Grafton elementary school to dismiss its students for the day.
Accident at Madison East Side Festival
August 1, 1944
The Tilt-a-Whirl ride at the Madison East Side Festival, scene of an accident in which a teenage girl, Lois Bailey, suffered injuries after being thrown from the ride.
