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| Date: | 03 14 1981 |
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| Description: | Onlookers watch as participants flail around in a mud pit wrestling ring. One spectator wears a bird costume. |
| Date: | 05 31 1939 |
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| Description: | View from balcony of Madison Turnverein men and women performing in a circle formation at Turner Hall, 21 South Butler Street. |
| Date: | 04 07 1932 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of women's club party at the Lincoln school gymnasium. |
| Date: | 10 08 1949 |
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| Description: | Third graders at Lincoln School as Bar-None ranch hands singing and square dancing around a "campfire" in the gymnasium. Four couples, boys dressed as cowb... |
| Date: | 07 04 1948 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the Knights of Columbus softball team, and clowns, at the Knights of Columbus - Zor Shrine Softball Show at Breese Stevens Field. |
| Date: | 10 29 1948 |
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| Description: | Republican elephant, with students "inside," who kicked the ball back and forth with the Democratic donkey at Madison East Pageant night at the East vs. Ra... |
| Date: | 10 28 1948 |
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| Description: | Democratic donkey, with students "inside," who kicked the ball back and forth with the Republican elephant at Madison East Pageant night at the East vs. Ra... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | A young boy wearing a crown is presented with a framed portrait of himself by two men, one of whom is smoking a cigarette. The man on the right is holding ... |
| Date: | 01 17 1950 |
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| Description: | Dorothy Bell, a member of the Madison Skating Club's Junior Club, is shown spinning while wearing a skirted skating costume at their indoor rink at Truax F... |
| Date: | 06 27 1950 |
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| Description: | Girl costume winners in the Montgomery Ward Bicycle Safety Parade pose for a portrait with their bikes on a football field. Pictured left to right are: Mar... |
| Date: | 06 27 1950 |
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| Description: | Boy costume winners in the Montgomery Ward Bicycle Safety Parade pose for a portrait with their bikes on a football field. Pictured left to right are: Jon... |
| Date: | 08 02 1950 |
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| Description: | A group of clowns posing with their small car during the annual Knights of Columbus-Zor Shrine show at Breese Stevens Field. |
| Date: | 08 02 1950 |
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| Description: | Two Knights of Columbus clowns are pretending to take someone's picture during the annual Knights of Columbus-Zor Shrine show at Breese Stevens Field. |
| Date: | 03 15 1951 |
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| Description: | Students from Darlington wear St. Patrick's Day hats while sitting in the stands during the boys state basketball tournament at the University of Wisconsin... |
| Date: | 08 01 1951 |
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| Description: | A clown dressed in western costume entertaining children and youth during the Knights of Columbus and Zor Shrine softball game at Breese Steven's Field. |
| Date: | 07 22 1952 |
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| Description: | Fourteen-year old Darlene Kripps, center, is the winner of the award for best costume and decorated bike in the Bicycle Safety Week parade. Standing at her... |
| Date: | 08 06 1952 |
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| Description: | A youngster "sneaking in" to see the Knights of Columbus Shrine Softball Circus. A clowning police officer greets him and makes his "admittance" good. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Group gathered in the gymnasium of the Woldale Rural School for a Christmas "hobo" party. Attendees are dressed as "hobos." The original caption notes that... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Young men and women standing on a platform in a school gymnasium dressed as hobos for a "Hobo" party at Woldale Rural School. A basketball hoop is in the b... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | High school girls in a folk dancing class, probably in the school gymnasium. The girls are in a line grouped in pairs, and are wearing matching dresses and... |
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