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| Date: | 02 20 1954 |
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| Description: | Zoo director George Speidel and members of the Milwaukee County Zoological society talking over plans for the new zoo while looking at a tentative model fo... |
| Date: | 09 13 1949 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with Lawrence College students tobogganing at Rib Mountain near Wausau. |
| Date: | 08 22 1963 |
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| Description: | "Picnicking in Mitchell Park provided a pleasant afternoon recently for these senior citizens who participated in the Milwaukee County Park Commission's pr... |
| Date: | 11 10 1931 |
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| Description: | Fred Winkleman holding a new pair of chimpanzees, Nip and Tuck, at Henry Vilas Zoo (Vilas Park Zoo). |
| Date: | 09 07 1963 |
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| Description: | Husband and wife prepare meal on top of a campfire grill. |
| Date: | 08 22 1963 |
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| Description: | Group plays cards underneath the shady trees in Mitchell park. |
| Date: | 1978 |
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| Description: | Native Americans keeping the music alive. George Whitewing, a Ho Chunk musician from Wittenberg, Wisconsin, plays his drum while a crowd looks on in Red Cl... |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | Senator Gaylord Nelson, Dave Obey, and Secretary of the Interior Cecil Andrus, walk along a beach with a park ranger during a tour of the Apostle Islands. ... |
| Date: | 02 23 1950 |
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| Description: | Children play on an ice slide created by two residents of the barracks apartments at Truax Field. A swing set is in the background. |
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| Description: | Fredric March (seated) with Florence Eldridge (Mrs. March) and the noted news analyst Cecil Brown. |
| Date: | 06 1928 |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of some of the members of the Grand Army of the Republic at a reunion. |
| Date: | 06 1948 |
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| Description: | "This working party at Firemen's Park, drinking Pioneer beer, is (L-R) Peter Bodden, Jack Burns, Philip Schwinn, & ?." |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Five Boy Scouts raising the American flag in park area. |
| Date: | 05 1984 |
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| Description: | "MPTI instructors from Fond du Lac instructed over 200 firemen from 16 fire departments in the techniques of rappelling and snuffing out fires at Theresa F... |
| Date: | 06 1994 |
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| Description: | "Players coax on turtles at the 'Turtle Game' at Firemen's Park." |
| Date: | 05 1924 |
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| Description: | Mothers and small children standing and posing in Vilas Park, with other mothers and older children lying prone, propping themselves up with their elbows, ... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Group of girls in jackets, sitting or kneeling, perhaps illuminated by a campfire; some are holding cups. This image is from a hosteling scrapbook kept by ... |
| Date: | 04 25 1997 |
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| Description: | "Theresa village president, Chris Giese, accepts a Growth Award for outstanding tree management in the village of Theresa." |
| Date: | 07 1998 |
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| Description: | "The Brownsville Village President, Ron Sabel, speaks at the dedication of Dale R. Michels Memorial Park." |
| Date: | 05 1940 |
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| Description: | Image from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with Jennie G., Rose Caruso, and Mrs. Urso at a picnic. One of the women is sitting on a park bench, whi... |
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