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| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Five men stand on a city street surrounded by onlookers, perhaps a parade or some other public event. Two of the men in the street are carrying photography... |
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| Description: | Waitresses and waiters lined up inside the Dining Tent, ready to serve a large gathering. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | A WPA program on the State Fair Grounds. The workers have dug a long trench, and the project probably concerns improved sanitary facilities for the fair, a... |
| Date: | 08 1953 |
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| Description: | Governor Walter J. Kohler, Jr., speaks to a crowd in the grandstand at the Wisconsin State Fair. In the background, a photographer is taking his picture. |
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| Description: | The country meets the city as a "Milwaukee Journal" newsboy admires the calf entered in the animal judging competition by a young boy from the country. |
| Date: | 08 1948 |
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| Description: | Fair employees use a crane to position a version of the Forward statue that was the symbol of the 1948 Wisconsin Centennial Exposition and State Fair. |
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| Description: | Former Olympic athlete Bob Matthias (left) and Republican Senator Chilsen and using exercise equipment. Matthias was also a Republican Congressman from Cal... |
| Date: | 08 1948 |
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| Description: | Fair employees use a crane to complete the positioning of the "Forward" statue at the Wisconsin Centennial Exposition. The grandstand can be seen in the ba... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A farmer shows off his percheron colt at the Wisconsin State Fair. At the turn of the century when a farmer's livelihood was dependent on his horses, the d... |
| Date: | 04 10 1942 |
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| Description: | Friday night at the Star Bar and Grill Room, at the intersection of Highways 41 and 43 in Kenosha County. |
| Date: | 12 27 1945 |
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| Description: | John Steuart Curry standing next to an action painting of David N. Schreiner, an All-American end in 1942 who was killed in action on Okinawa in 1945, whil... |
| Date: | 08 06 1944 |
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| Description: | War workers, families and friends of Gisholt Machine Company at the company picnic held at the Blooming Grove Firemen's Park on Monona Drive. There is a ca... |
| Date: | 10 08 1949 |
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| Description: | Third graders at Lincoln School as Bar-None ranch hands singing and square dancing around a "campfire" in the gymnasium. Four couples, boys dressed as cowb... |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Winner Melvin Walker at work during a sheep shearing competition. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | As part of a statewide boycott of Wilson products, delegates to the State Federation of Labor in Cedar Rapids participate in an automobile parade. One car-... |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for International trucks with a color illustration of a truck driver sitting in an easy chair with his feet propped up under the text "c... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for Farmall tractors manufactured by the International Harvester Company. Includes a photograph of a man in the seat of an F-20 tractor ... |
| Date: | 02 24 1944 |
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| Description: | Mable Sawtelle, a Red Cross nurses' aide, tends to baby Sara in a crib with doll. Poster on wall reads: "Rollier demonstrated the value of heliotherapy in ... |
| Date: | 10 1912 |
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| Description: | Driver David Bruce-Brown and mechanic Tony Scudelari pose in their race car. Although they had been warned that their tires appeared worn, on October 1, 19... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising catalog for William Deering and Company, manufacturers of harvesting machinery. The color illustration features six young children ... |
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