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| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Assembly line packing by the Supreme Model Supply Co., a model airplane company started by Waukesha teenagers in 1940. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | A female snake charmer with the Cole Brothers Circus, watched by two children. |
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| Description: | A group of boys, supervised by adult men, set up wooden folding chairs in a circus tent. |
| 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. |
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| Description: | A circus sideshow performer sits outside a tent talking with two women performers of short stature. |
| Date: | 07 08 1988 |
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| Description: | Two women lifeguards sun themselves at the edge of Horeb Park pool during a rotation break. |
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| Description: | A group portrait of Norris & Rowe circus performers outside a tent at winter quarters, including clowns, riders, and high wire performers. |
| Date: | 12 15 1913 |
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| Description: | A horse-drawn wagon, filled with University of Wisconsin students dressed as clowns, proceeds along a Madison street as part of a parade. Spectators line ... |
| Date: | 06 14 1944 |
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| Description: | Lifeguard Kenneth Harwick applying a first aid bandage to the foot of Hazel Gehri, who is holding a shattered milk bottle left on the beach. |
| Date: | 06 1944 |
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| Description: | George Miller is reporting a problem to Lifeguard Lois Gardner. She is standing on a platform near a chair, and is wearing a whistle on a chain around her ... |
| Date: | 05 10 1945 |
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| Description: | City of Madison Lifeguard Training Class at the YMCA pool, 207 West Washington Avenue. Pictured left to right: Marilyn Hammes, Pat Patterson, and Bill Bail... |
| Date: | 05 10 1945 |
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| Description: | City of Madison Lifeguard Training Class at the YMCA pool, 207 West Washington Avenue. Bill Bailey tries to duck Alice Tiedeman under the water. |
| Date: | 05 10 1945 |
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| Description: | City of Madison Lifeguard Training class at the YMCA pool, 207 West Washington Avenue. Pictured are Alice Tiedeman ducking Bill Bailey under the water. |
| Date: | 05 10 1945 |
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| Description: | City of Madison Lifeguard Training class at the YMCA pool, 207 West Washington Avenue. Performing artificial respiration of Bill Bailey are left to right:... |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of one competitor parading her animal for the judges at the Southern Wisconsin Junior Livestock Competition, while Alice in Dairylan... |
| Date: | 07 10 1948 |
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| Description: | Art Ensign (left) and Chuck Steele seated in the lifeguard tower at Madison's Lakefront Beach. The City of Madison has placed experienced lifeguards at 8 b... |
| Date: | 11 09 1948 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the winners of the Madison Fire Fighters union poster contest, held in conjunction with the annual Firemen's ball. Left to right in the f... |
| Date: | 12 18 1948 |
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| Description: | Three female models that took part in a fashion show for the Wisconsin All-State Football Squad during a dinner at Manchester's Madison Room, shown with fi... |
| Date: | 06 15 1948 |
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| Description: | Curlee Seals, Jr. discussing plans for his 1949 Soap Box Derby racer with three members of the Madison Junior Chamber of Commerce, Curlee's sponsor for the... |
| Date: | 07 12 1949 |
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| Description: | Bob Trotalli, a recent graduate of West High School, has a summer job as a life guard at the Willows Beach on Lake Mendota. He is shown talking to Betsy Mi... |
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