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| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | A female snake charmer with the Cole Brothers Circus, watched by two children. |
| Date: | 1868 |
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| Description: | George W. Hall, Jr., noted Evansville, Wisconsin, circus performer, as a young boy, holding a snake and wearing copper-toed boots. |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Jefferson Davis hanging by a noose in a tree with a serpent wrapped around it. The "SOUTHERN EAGLE" is flying in the background. Captions below read: "JEFF... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | General Scott holds a large cone decorated with the stars and stripes. Scott is saying: "I'LL BLOCK YOUR GAME." He is about to snuff out Jefferson Davis, w... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | The American Eagle is holding a banner with the word "BEWARE" on it in his beak. He is gripping a federal shield with a Union flag draped over it with his ... |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | Uncle Sam holds a bottle labeled "DAVIS," with a figure of a man on it, as he stands with a snake labeled "SECESSION" under his left foot. The caption b... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Crude parody of a coat of arms for the Confederacy. The border on the right, bottom and left is a rattlesnake. The top is a ribbon with the text "OH! "LET ... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Jefferson Davis, wearing his nightshirt with rumpled hair, is recoiling from a large snake. The snake's tongue is touching Davis' nose. A marsh appears in ... |
| 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: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Polish film poster. Illustrated image of a snake's face with one eye and its tongue sticking out. The snake wears a black hat. |
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| Description: | Lewis Adam Struble is seated in the corner of a room with a number of beaver pelts displayed on the walls behind him. He is sitting in a chair wearing a co... |
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| Description: | Lewis Adam Struble is seated in the corner of a room with a number of beaver pelts displayed on the walls behind him. He is sitting in a chair wearing a co... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Three men are displaying a very long snake. Names from left to right: W.A. Holt, Rev. Ernest Wright, and W.M. Comstock. Caption reads: "Snake!" |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "'The Buckhorn,' Rice Lake, Wis." The Buckhorn Tavern had an amazing display of taxidermy and curios, including some hoaxes: a shovel-... |
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