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Cow Chip Tossing Contest

Date: 09 1980
Description: A competitor in the State Cow Chip Tossing Contest has 30 seconds to choose her cow chip. The cow chips are specially made from cow manure.
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Cigarette Sales

Date: 06 1981
Description: Winnebago Enterprises trailer, advertising drive-up cigarette sales.
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Children Relaxing in the Pool

Date: 06 18 1989
Description: Overhead view of four children relaxing in a wading pool.
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First Graders

Date: 06 01 1989
Description: First graders writing and drawing while lying on the floor.
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Kids with Calculator

Date: 05 19 1989
Description: Two young boys in a grocery store figuring out prices of food with a calculator.
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Kids on Roller Skates

Date: 06 26 1986
Description: Kids make a "train," with the bicyclist in the front pulling three girls on roller skates along a sidewalk.
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Dead Alligator

Date: 03 23 1981
Description: An animal control officer with a dead alligator that has been pulled out of the water.
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Possible Female Vice Presidential Nominees

Date: 07 09 1984
Description: Seven buttons or stickers with the names and faces of possible female Vice-Presidential nominees. Walter Mondale was determined to choose a woman for his r...
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Park Street during Back To School Filming

Date: 1985
Description: Park Street at the State Street intersection during the filming of Back To School. The pedestrian overpass bears a sign for the fictional Grand Lake...
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Visiting Japanese Students at Leon's Frozen Custard

Date: 1980
Description: View across parking lot towards a group of Japanese woman posing in front of Leon's Frozen Custard. Caption reads: "Visiting Japanese students posed in fro...
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Remembering

Date: 1981
Description: Six family members looking at a photograph album outdoors. Caption reads: "REMEMBERING. Norma Clemente and her family looked through the family album at he...
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Thanksgiving Meal

Date: 11 25 1988
Description: Two adult women and two girls are sitting on sofas and smiling. On a shelf on a mirrored cabinet behind the sofas are several framed photographs of girls. ...
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Unearthed Vault at Riverside Cemetery

Date: 1982
Description: Two men in suits are standing in a cemetery, looking at a metal grave vault. The vault is supported by two wooden beams. Caption reads: "A 12 gauge Clark m...
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Elroy Street Scene

Date: 1986
Description: View along a commercial street in Elroy (now State Road 80). The Elroy Theater marquee is advertising screenings of the movie "Nothing in Common." Signs fo...
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Andy's Gun Clinic, Holland

Date: 02 1983
Description: View of a two-car garage in winter with snow on the ground. One garage door is open and a car is parked inside. A sign on the garage reads: "ANDY'S GUN CLI...

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