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| Date: | 07 28 1901 |
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| Description: | View down Main Street, facing east, during Pawnee Bill's Circus Wild West Parade. |
| Date: | 07 28 1901 |
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| Description: | View of Pawnee Bill's Circus Parade. |
| Date: | 06 03 1901 |
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| Description: | View of Pawnee Bill's Wild West Parade, looking west down Main Street. |
| Date: | 04 11 1957 |
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| Description: | Mary Ellen Lathers, Judy Angevine, Alnora M. Lathers, and Jessie C. De Woody apply circus posters to the interior walls of the East Side Business men's clu... |
| Date: | 09 28 1957 |
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| Description: | Caption reads: "These girls put on a circus in the recreation room at the Fitzpatrick home at 1504 Sumac Drive. They brought the money up to my office whic... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Gargantua the Gorilla roars as he holds a native African tribesman over his head using one arm. In the background the rest of the tribe, carrying shields a... |
| Date: | 07 09 1958 |
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| Description: | Christine and Bill Schuldt admiring posters and relics of circuses founded in Wisconsin at an exhibit in the State Historical Society Museum. The photograp... |
| Date: | 09 06 1958 |
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| Description: | Children from Shorewood Hills raised $5 by putting on a circus for Roundy's Fun Fund for handicapped children. Front row from left to right: Patty Flinn, D... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | View across road of the Berg & Jones Department Store, with posters in the front windows announcing an upcoming Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus ... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Circus World complex, with railroad cars, a tent and the arena where the circus shows are held. There is a parking lot in the backgrou... |
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| Description: | The Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater themed circus wagon. |
| Date: | 06 30 1959 |
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| Description: | A neighborhood circus at 567 Park Lane, the Robert Munger residence, benefited "Roundy's Fun Fund." Left to right in first row: Cheryl Eickner, Douglas Bo... |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of an elevated view of the Circus Parade on a rainy day. Crowds of people line the street, and many are holding umbrellas. |
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| Description: | Bring back somehow the big Hello Prolong the noisiest day The clapping hands are stilled too soon And much too far away |
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| Description: | For any master line drawn fine enough or spoken well let us call all professionals to wear the laurel and deck the Halls of Fame |
| Date: | 1891 |
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| Description: | Grace May Hall, as a five-year-old circus child, with a large show python coiled at her feet and a smaller show snake around her neck. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of circus parade with "UNITED STATES" tableau wagon passing through a crowded street intersection. |
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