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| Date: | 03 30 1959 |
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| Description: | Two girls with their hands up being 'pretend' robbed by ten little boys with cap-guns. They are between two closely spaced homes. |
| Date: | 03 12 1958 |
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| Description: | A fake duck sitting on the railing of a balcony at the Town House Apartments, 111 West Main Street. The stuffed duck was placed there by "trickster" Fred N... |
| Date: | 04 12 1958 |
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| Description: | A fake duck sits on the railing of a balcony at the Town House Apartments, 111 West Main Street. The stuffed duck was placed there by "trickster" Fred Nort... |
| Date: | 04 05 1958 |
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| Description: | Shriner clowns Harley Moore, left, and Ray Wheeler waving goodbye to the Zor Shrine group leaving the Madison airport for a tour of Hawaii. |
| Date: | 08 14 1922 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Capture of the Hodag, Rhinelander, Wis." A large group of men armed with guns, pitchforks and rakes hold a beast at bay on top of a l... |
| Date: | 09 23 1932 |
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| Description: | Three entertainers, Ben Turpin, Walter Hiers, and Snub Pollard, at J.R. Licari & Sons, 767 W. Washington. Greenbush Walter is filling Snub's cigarette ligh... |
| Date: | 10 07 1932 |
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| Description: | Municipal golf pro with "armless" Fanchon and Marco golfer. |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Jeannette Holt, family and friends are laughing and having a watermelon seed fight in front of Island Lodge. Names from left to right: Jeannette Holt, unkn... |
| Date: | 12 18 1957 |
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| Description: | Shining ornaments and sprigs of pine and fir were used by many of the feminine guests for their Christmas hats for the party. Helen Plater and Elizabeth Mo... |
| Date: | 12 18 1957 |
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| Description: | Elsa Johnson looks up at a hat topped with a large wheeled carriage worn by Betty Berst. Johnson was style show chairman for 1957. Berst was the Maple Bluf... |
| Date: | 12 18 1957 |
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| Description: | Mrs. George W. Heath, 1957 social chairman of the woman's organization at Maple Bluff Country Club, is wearing a hat decorated with a large Christmas tree ... |
| Date: | 12 18 1957 |
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| Description: | Eleanor Nerdrum, program chairman for the Maple Bluff women's group in 1956-57, is wearing a hat richly decorated with a variety of Christmas tree ornament... |
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| Description: | A young boy is sitting at a table with three stuffed bears, in a room decorated as if from the story of "Goldilocks and the Three Bears." The wall is paint... |
| Date: | 07 21 1973 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of a group of people bundled up in colorful coats, standing in a snowy landscape. They are all holding one blanket and looking up to... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | A toddler wearing an oversized straw hat is sitting on a box on the ground. There is a bottle in the toddler's pocket. There is a goat is standing next to ... |
| Date: | 08 20 1957 |
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| Description: | Paul du Vair, a hi-fi enthusiast, is shown checking over the vinyl records he plans to take to St. Norbert College this fall. |
| Date: | 08 07 1957 |
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| Description: | Bandleader Monty Hacker dressed in a clown suit and with smiling makeup on his face at the Shrine-Knights of Columbus benefit show at Breese Stevens Field.... |
| Date: | 08 07 1957 |
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| Description: | Happy faces of adults and children in the audience crowd at the Shrine-Knights of Columbus benefit show at Breese Stevens Field. |
| Date: | 01 12 1954 |
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| Description: | Prom queen candidate Jean Riley of Green Bay (a.k.a. "Calamity Jean") appearing with two "bashful cowhands," who are singing on her behalf at the rally in ... |
| Date: | 01 12 1954 |
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| Description: | Four male "chorus girls" dancing on behalf of their prom queen candidate, Gloria Robbins of Oshkosh, at the rally at the Memorial Union Rathskellar. The pe... |
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