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Reconstruction for a Movie Set

Date: 09 18 1961
Description: View of a downtown area reconstructed for a movie location set. Several contemporary automobiles are seen in the background. Men are working on on two diff...
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Boy Practicing Cattle Roping

Date: 1962
Description: 6-year-old Kirk Hanna uses a lasso to practice cattle roping on a pair of bull horns affixed to a log in a barnyard. A horse is tied to a fence on the righ...
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Gift Cows, U.S. Marine Helicopter Base

Date: 06 1962
Description: Gift cows at the U.S. Marine Helicopter base in Soc Trang, Vietnam. Military and civilian men stand posing in a group in a field. Two of the men hold the r...
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Ox Cart and International Harvester Tractor in India

Date: 1967
Description: Men follow an oxcart with an International Harvester tractor in India.
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Cows on Ice

Date: 03 28 1960
Description: While en route from Oregon prison farm to Oscar Mayer and Co., three cows were frightened by an ambulance siren on the 700 block of West Washington Avenue ...
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Cows On Ice

Date: 03 28 1960
Description: While en route from Oregon prison farm to Oscar Mayer and Co., three cows were frightened by an ambulance siren on the 700 block of West Washington Avenue ...
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Cows on Ice

Date: 03 28 1960
Description: While en route from Oregon prison farm to Oscar Mayer and Co., three cows were frightened by an ambulance siren on the 700 block of West Washington Avenue ...
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Bookbinders Sea Food House Menu

Date: 07 15 1961
Description: Menu from Bookbinders Sea Food House. The cover features an illustration of a fisherman holding a net with a boat in the background, framed by a border of ...
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Don Haack with Ocelot

Date: 04 18 1961
Description: Don Haack, co-manager of Robert Haack Diamond Importers, holds a four-month old male ocelot found in a South American jungle after its mother was shot by n...
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Cat in Assembly Chambers

Date: 08 02 1961
Description: Two Wisconsin legislators hold a cat found in the Assembly chambers.
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Twelve Annual World Championship Rodeo

Date: 07 28 1961
Description: Ray Risch, Edgerton, participates in the bareback bronco competition at the 12th annual World Championship Rodeo at the Holmes No-Oaks Ranch on Syene Rd.
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Circus Hippopotamus Visits Shopping Center

Date: 08 14 1963
Description: A hippopotamus that is touring with the Al G. Kelly and Miller Bros. circus appeared at a style show sponsored by the Hilldale Association at the Midvale P...
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William Kay Shrine Circus

Date: 02 13 1964
Description: Gary Rupp of Farmington, Michigan, an aide to the bear trainer for the William Kay Shrine Circus, relaxing after finishing chores for the opening of the ci...
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World's Championship Rodeo

Date: 06 24 1964
Description: A clown attempts to move a stubborn mule at the 15th annual World's Championship Rodeo at the Holmes No-Oak ranch.
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Robin's Nest in Church Being Constructed

Date: 06 09 1965
Description: A robin sitting peacefully on her nest on a railing of the choir loft of a church in the midst of construction. Workmen are seen in the background. The chu...
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Rocky Marciano as Parade Marshal for Rodeo

Date: 07 22 1965
Description: Former heavyweight boxing champion Rocky Marciano on horseback as he prepares for his role as parade marshal in the rodeo at Holmes' No-Oaks ranch. Around ...
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Opening Day Fishing Season

Date: 1968
Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing titled, "Today and Tomorrow — The Fisherman's Myth Never Flounders," that appeared in the Wisconsin State Journal on...
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Shirley Abrahamson

Date: 07 26 1962
Description: Attorney, Shirley Abrahamson, walking her Irish Setters, Brisco and Betsy-B near her Fish Hatchery Road home. She is a member of the law firm of LaFollette...

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