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Circus Performers Astride Horse

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Description: Five circus performers, female and male, sit or stand astride a horse with a tent as a backdrop.
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Horse and Rider Take a Jump

Date: 1940
Description: Patricia Ferneding of Hartland, Wisconsin takes her Lightweight Hunter named Just So over a jump at the Wisconsin State Fair. Miss Ferneding won the Ladies...
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Carousel Bear on Cub Tractor at Museum of Science and Industry

Date: 1947
Description: The "Carousel Bear" sitting astride a Farmall Cub tractor at the Harvester Farm exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry.
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Publicity Photograph of Valeska Suratt

Date: 1916
Description: Publicity photograph by Gerald Carpenter of Los Angeles. Valeska Suratt lounges in a dressing gown and net undergarments and holds a hand mirror as she sit...
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Valeska Suratt Publicity Photograph

Date: 1916
Description: Three-quarter length portrait of Suratt wearing a white fur suit as she sits on a black bear rug.
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Kathlyn Williams and a White Toy Poodle

Date: 1919
Description: Kathlyn Williams wears a white accordion pleated skirt under a black velvet tunic cut into three large triangular sections at the hem. She has a white fur ...
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Cupid

Date: 1930
Description: A studio portrait of a child as Cupid wearing wings and holding a bow and arrow, posed leaning against an owl and sitting on a tree stump.
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Jennie Rooney

Date: 1930
Description: A young woman poses seated in front of a painted forest backdrop. She wears wings and is wrapped in a diaphanous material. On the left on the ground is a s...
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Ronald Reagan in Death Valley Days

Date: 1952
Description: Ronald Reagan sits on a horse in a publicity still for the TV show Death Valley Days. He wears a hat and a vest with a pocket watch fob attached to...
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Leon Varjian with "Color Guard"

Date: 12 03 1979
Description: W.S.A. (Wisconsin Student Association) President Leon Varjian, flanked by a "color guard," reads the eulogy for Vern the Mouse (lower right).
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Richard F. Redfield in Costume

Date: 01 24 1958
Description: A man is posing in a leather fringed costume and fur cap, with what appears to be a fake beard. He is holding two dead animals up in his right hand. Two ot...

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