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Clown in the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus

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Description: A clown in the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus standing outside a tent near a wagon, with his left hand holding onto a tent rope. He is wearing a beret-style hat,...
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Clyde Beatty

Date: 1933
Description: Clyde Beatty, with the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus, sits on a chair outside a circus tent with two young tigers.
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Tractor Display at Ohio State Fair

Date: 1946
Description: Two men pose on a twenty-three year old Farmall Regular tractor on display under a tent at the Ohio State Fair. The sign reads: "23 yrs. old; This Farmall ...
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Children in a Tent

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Description: Young girl with children in tent.
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Civil War Soldier

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Description: A tinted tintype of a Civil War soldier posing with an officer's sword in front of an elaborately painted studio backdrop depicting a tent, an American fla...
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Studio Portrait of Henry Thunder

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Description: Elderly Ho-Chunk man, Henry Thunder, posing making a gesture with his hand inside a tent with light rays.
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Outdoor Portrait of Ho-Chunk Woman

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Description: Copy photograph of a Ho-Chunk woman, standing outdoors in front of a tent, wearing a Sioux headdress and a Chippewa bandoleer.
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Copy Photograph of Jim Swallow and William Massey

Date: 1908
Description: Copy photograph of a Ho-Chunk man, Jim Swallow, in regalia posing standing and holding a bow in front of cloth barriers or tents. From a powwow group from ...
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Portrait of George Standingwater

Date: 1906
Description: A Ho-Chunk man is posing standing in a field, holding an object in his left hand, and is wearing regalia including a long bandoleer which appear to have be...
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Portrait of Ho-Chunk Man and Boy Outside Tent

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Description: Portrait of a Ho-Chunk man sitting cross-legged on the ground outside of a tent, holding a gun and wearing a vest and hat. A dog is on the ground near his ...
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Boys Corn Club Contest

Date: 05 1911
Description: Jeffie Duncan, winner of first prize in corn contest, and calf, Lawn Mower, stand before tent exhibiting the Boys Corn Club Contest.
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Totem Maker

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Description: A view of a Native American man, the Totem maker, sitting outside of a tent and holding a carved totemic figure. Caption at bottom reads: "The Totem Maker,...
Drawing

1880 Iron Brigade Reunion

Date: 1880
Description: A composite drawing, including photographic portraits, depicting "Doc" Aubrey, newsboy of the Iron Brigade, delivering papers to the camp where other membe...
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Lewis Arms and Fred Sitting

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Description: Lewis Arms (left) poses with Fred Sitting, "a couple of tired, but still smiling Marines".
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Woman and Very Tall Man

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Description: A young woman and a very tall man stand together in front of the cookhouse wagon. She is holding a bottle of soda and offering him a hotdog; he has his arm...
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Divison Surgeon Okinawa

Date: 1945
Description: Captain Don Knowlton, a U.S. Marine division Surgeon, posing for a photograph outdoors in Okinawa, Japan. He is wearing fatigues and a helmet and is standi...
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Algeria Father and Son

Date: 08 1957
Description: An Algerian member of the National Liberation Front cutting his young son's hair in a tent. Behind him is a group of men.
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Algerian Child Wearing Chapelle's Eyeglasses

Date: 08 1957
Description: An Algerian girl in a Red Crescent (Red Cross equivalent) tent. A man is holding Dickey Chapelle's glasses up to the girl's face. She is wearing a patterne...
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Two Men in front of Tent

Date: 1935
Description: View of one man wearing a suit and tie sitting on a cot in front of a canvas tent. Another man wearing a dress shirt and tie is standing next to him in fro...
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Doyle Filling Jeep with Gasoline

Date: 09 05 1943
Description: A smiling Robert Doyle holds the nozzle to the gas pump with one hand and gives the "thumbs up" sign with the other at the Kangaroo Korner Gas Station near...

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