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| Date: | 10 15 1934 |
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| Description: | Babe Ruth, wearing a dressing gown, signing autographs from a train car during a stopover in Madison. |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | The harbor, showing the sidewheel packet, "Belle of La Crosse," and the sidewheel ferry "Alex McGregor." Other boats are also seen including two barges loa... |
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| Description: | A Cole Brothers Circus wagon sits on a flatbed truck, near a railroad yard, awaiting transport by the Shea-Matson Machinery Mover & Millwrights company. |
| Date: | 1891 |
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| Description: | A group of personnel with the Rentz & Co.'s Monster Circus combined with the Great American Racing Association, pose for a photograph by the side of the tr... |
| Date: | 07 08 1941 |
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| Description: | A boy rides his bike as if leading a fleet of cars, with the Lake Michigan ferry blowing smoke in the background. |
| Date: | 12 27 1944 |
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| Description: | Roger and Mary Sue Mallory, in front of a Christmas Tree, playing with toys their father Lieut. Col. Robert Mallory, stationed in France, sent to them. Rog... |
| Date: | 02 10 1947 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the University of Wisconsin varsity basketball team at the Milwaukee Road Station, returning from a victory over Michigan at Ann Arbor. S... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a parade crossing through a factory yard, where the workers are watching. Some are sitting on the roof of the building in the background. ... |
| Date: | 06 18 1951 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the University of Wisconsin Varsity Crew at West Washington Avenue railroad station. The crew poses before an unusual Milwaukee Road Rail... |
| Date: | 06 18 1951 |
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| Description: | A crowd greets the University of Wisconsin varsity crew as they arrive on a train at the West Washington Avenue railroad station. At top center is crew cap... |
| Date: | 04 18 1953 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin crew members unload a new racing shell that was made by George Pocock in Seattle. |
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| Description: | Model train car or street car on a short track. The car is stamped with the words "Electric Railway." The car and track are resting on a small table. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Page from the Tansy Camp Fire Girls album kept by Neighborhood House, with groups of girls posing at the end of a pier, in front of tents, on the remains o... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Reproduction of a painting depicting an Olympian Hiawatha locomotive and an Olympian Hiawatha observation car traveling in the western United States. A man... |
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| Description: | Every macho-mind knows exactly what and where it is — up front, smoking hot, born to circumstance, savage watchman of the several thousand Rights |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | William Wehring, a student at the Sharon School, poses with his Holstein calf. There is a large canvas tent in the background and a railroad car is behind ... |
| Date: | 07 05 1972 |
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| Description: | View of local residents standing in the grass watching the Circus World Museum Train pass through Elroy and Union Center. The train, which did not normally... |
| Date: | 09 04 1941 |
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| Description: | Ernst Schmidt, second from left, and two other men prepare to unload a 17-foot Lyman motorboat named "Islander" from an Illinois Central freight car. "Auto... |
| Date: | 06 29 1972 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of crowd on railroad tracks near flatbed railroad cars carrying circus wagons for a parade. |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | View from a crowd of people watching horse-drawn circus wagons parading on a dirt road at Circus World Museum. Behind the wagon is a man dressed in a red a... |
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