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| Description: | "Diamond Kitty," a performer with the Shrine Circus, poses with a large group of people in front of the sideshow tent housing the "World's Fattest People" ... |
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| Description: | A group of 11 circus clowns poses with a pretty young female performer in a circus tent. This could possibly be part of a movie set. |
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| Description: | Erma Ward, a circus trapeze artist, dangles by one hand from a ring high in a circus tent. |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Young men playing baseball in a park or open field. The men may be employees of the International Harvester Company at a factory or office picnic. |
| Date: | 11 07 1944 |
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| Description: | Booth at the U.S.O. Carnival sponsered by the Milwaukee Road Employees Service Club, featuring games of chance and a model train set-up. |
| Date: | 09 19 1937 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of Kayser Motors employees and their families on a picnic at Burrows Park. |
| Date: | 10 15 1934 |
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| Description: | Babe Ruth, wearing dressing gown, stands in the doorway of a train and signs autographs for clamoring fans, with a train porter in uniform standing by. |
| Date: | 10 14 1934 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of Gardner Baking Co. drivers/salesmen from out of town, taken outdoors near 849 E. Washington Avenue. Breese Stevens Field is in the backgr... |
| Date: | 08 10 1934 |
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| Description: | Three "most beautiful employees" of the Chicago World's Fair on a publicity tour: Patricia Marquan, Kay Griffith and Dorothy Le Fold. |
| Date: | 04 28 1934 |
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| Description: | Ten hostesses dressed in white flying uniforms with helmets and goggles posing at the Kroger Grocery and Baking Co. air show and food exposition. They are ... |
| Date: | 01 31 1934 |
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| Description: | Helen King, side view, modeling a 1934 rubber bathing suit, made by U.S. Rubber Co. She is also wearing a bathing cap and sandals, and is holding an inflat... |
| Date: | 08 27 1933 |
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| Description: | Fauerbach and Blatz beer signs at the concession stand at the Dane County fair. The signs read: "Fauerback Beer Served Here Exclusively!" and Blatz Brewing... |
| Date: | 08 10 1933 |
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| Description: | Barbers cutting the hair of four children at The Capital Times Kiddie Camp, with other barbers and children looking on. |
| Date: | 06 07 1933 |
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| Description: | Evangelist W.P. Butler with hand upraised and Rev. Joseph Washington, pastor of Mt. Zion Baptist Church stand beside Lulu Elroy who is about to be baptized... |
| Date: | 05 23 1933 |
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| Description: | Janette Serrec, lecturer and writer on the "Fine Art of Successful Living," standing beside a Hawthorne bicycle from Ward's. She is wearing jodhpurs and bo... |
| Date: | 07 20 1932 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of Manchesters employees in the yard of Harry Manchester's house, 531 Farwell Drive, Maple Bluff. |
| Date: | 07 20 1932 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of Manchesters Store employees picnic in front of Harry Manchester house. |
| Date: | 01 08 1932 |
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| Description: | Display of some of the 5,000 entries that came into the "Capital Times" office for the first "Cut Out Puzzle" contest of the "Boots" character from the "Bo... |
| Date: | 08 13 1931 |
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| Description: | Greg Kabat, University of Wisconsin football player, shovels dirt from the back of a truck at Camp Randall. |
| Date: | 08 10 1931 |
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| Description: | Eight barbers (S.R. Ashby, E.A. Sorenson, Louis H. Topp, Melvin Byom, Earl G. Carver, Melvin H. Randall, Joseph Fedele, and Claude E. Dyer) cutting hair of... |
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