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Auto Daredevils Perform

Date: 1954
Description: Two cars and drivers with the Swenson Thrillcade World Champion Auto Daredevils perform before an audience at the Wisconsin State Fair.
Photograph

Jack McGrath

Date: 1954
Description: Jack McGrath, an Indianapolis 500 driver, photographed at the Milwaukee State Fair, with his cream colored Hinkle Special. McGrath died in an automobile cr...
Photograph

Boy Sitting on Dock

Date: 1954
Description: The little cowboy with a toy gun on the pier is John Paul Widmer. The pier was on the Rock River at the west end of Henni Street in Theresa.
Postcard

Camp Brosius

Date: 1954
Description: Elevated view towards dock, and a diving platform at Camp Brosius. A sailboat, rowboat and canoes are in the lake. Several people are swimming or standing ...
Postcard

Bathing Beach at Vilas Park

Date: 1954
Description: Color postcard view of a crowded bathing beach at Lake Wingra.

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