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| Date: | 09 1980 |
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| Description: | A competitor in the State Cow Chip Tossing Contest has 30 seconds to choose her cow chip. The cow chips are specially made from cow manure. |
| Date: | 09 13 1984 |
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| Description: | People working and shopping at a neighborhood garage sale in the Walker's Square Park area. Several neighborhood groups collaborated to sponsor the annual ... |
| Date: | 02 12 1984 |
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| Description: | A man shows his cow in front of Penneys during an auction held at the Mid-Cities Mall. |
| Date: | 02 20 1985 |
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| Description: | View looking downhill towards a young person walking across a road near snowy fields and hills in Vernon County. |
| Date: | 08 23 1985 |
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| Description: | A lone tree standing in a rural Ottawa cornfield in western Waukesha county. |
| Date: | 06 1981 |
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| Description: | Winnebago Enterprises trailer, advertising drive-up cigarette sales. |
| Date: | 11 28 1981 |
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| Description: | Veterinarians examining Samson, the Milwaukee Zoo's star 32-year-old gorilla, after attempting to revive him after he had collapsed while feeding in the zo... |
| Date: | 12 13 1985 |
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| Description: | Overhead view of Rhudra, an Indian rhinoceros, receiving surgery for a non-healing wound on the sole of his right, rear foot at the Milwaukee County Zoo. T... |
| Date: | 09 18 1984 |
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| Description: | Jennie Youn Haeng Seider, 4, of Milwaukee, used her father Jeffrey Seider's back to display her new certificate of naturalization. |
| Date: | 02 14 1985 |
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| Description: | A display of fruit and vegetables in the East Side Foods Sentry store. |
| Date: | 06 27 1980 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of a pharmacy advertising "Low Cost Drugs." The building also has a painted advertisement for Pabst Blue Ribbon beer. |
| Date: | 08 15 1981 |
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| Description: | Michael Persten standing behind the prescription counter of The Medicine Shop, a pharmacy he opened in Wauwatosa. |
| Date: | 09 30 1988 |
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| Description: | Young girl holding a book about child care written by Dr. Benjamin Spock, M.D. She is holding the book upside down. |
| Date: | 09 30 1984 |
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| Description: | A young girl playing with soap bubbles outdoors. |
| Date: | 02 21 1985 |
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| Description: | The Auer Avenue School's safety cadet team standing in front of the school building. |
| Date: | 12 28 1981 |
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| Description: | Father reading "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" by Mark Twain to his son. |
| Date: | 03 27 1989 |
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| Description: | Father on a bicycle towing son on a scooter. |
| Date: | 05 05 1985 |
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| Description: | Father carrying his infant son on his back while mowing the lawn. |
| Date: | 06 11 1989 |
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| Description: | Man flipping pancakes at "farm breakfast" as part of "June is Dairy Month" promotion in Washington County. |
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