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Truck Driver Joseph Gonzalez in International DB-405 Truck

Date: 1963
Description: Truck driver Joseph Gonzalez in his International DB-405 Budweiser beer truck at the terminus of U.S. Highway 1. A sign in front of the truck reads "end of...
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Baking Contest

Date: 08 15 1963
Description: Two women examine a prizing winning chiffon cake.
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Calvert Liquor Sign in Badger Sporting Goods Window

Date: 11 22 1944
Description: Calvert liquor sign and sporting goods displayed in the window of Badger Sporting Goods store, 418 State Street.
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Gothic Temple Cake

Date: 09 21 1933
Description: Gothic Temple Cake created by Reidar Strand and Oswald Christensen at Strand's Bakery's booth at the East Side Business Men's Association (ESBMA) Fall Fest...
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Blackhawk Country Club "Children's Day" Dress Up

Date: 07 06 1932
Description: Blackhawk Country Club "Childrens Day," women's dress up golf event. Four women are wearing children's dresses and eating lollipops.
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Ice Cream Treat

Date: 08 28 1967
Description: Cloaked in a blanket, a girl eats ice cream at the Muskego Veterans of Foreign Wars County Fair day.
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Alice in Dairyland

Date: 1956
Description: Alice in Dairyland, Doris Olsen, holds a cream puff, always a favorite Wisconsin State Fair treat, as she talks with two bakers at the fair.
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Eating at the Wisconsin State Fair

Date: 07 30 1984
Description: Bertha Hynek of Allenton is eating an ice cream cone while her grandson, Wesley Priesgen, 10, works on an ear of roasted corn.
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Alice in Dairyland Dress Sketch

Date: 1948
Description: A sketch of the winning dress designed by Betty Lou Jahn of Milwaukee for the first Alice in Dairyland in 1948. Not only was the design worn by the first A...
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Alice in Dairyland, Marjean Czerwinski

Date: 08 1951
Description: Marjean Czerwinski, the 1951 Alice in Dairyland, rides in the official Alice car with Mr. and Mrs. Wing during the Army Day Parade at the Wisconsin State F...
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Alice in Dairyland with Cow

Date: 1952
Description: Beverly Steffen, the 1952 Alice in Dairyland, stands beside a cow at the Wisconsin State Fair.
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An Eye for Ice Cream

Date: 06 19 1983
Description: Tina Polley looked through a pair of large clown eyeglasses as she ate an ice cream cone at an Ice Cream and Pie Social at St. Francis Episcopal Church.
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Fair Concessions

Date: 07 10 1985
Description: People, including a very eager little girl, stand around a concession stand to buy popcorn, peanuts, cotton candy, snow-cones, and other snacks at the 50th...
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Nesbitt's Highway Tavern

Date: 04 1942
Description: A man and woman posed at the bar in Nesbitt's Highway Tavern, on Highway 42, North of Kenosha. Gambling machines can be seen on the left.
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Wisconsin Gold Nuggets Exhibit

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Description: Two scouts look at a dairy exibit entitled Wisconsin Gold Nuggets at the Wisconsin State Fair. From left to right are Warren Sheard of Troop 35 in Burlingt...
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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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Ballmer's Old Time Tavern

Date: 10 1977
Description: Bartender Rod Ballmer (center), Paul Bernsdorf (left), and Jeffrey Mondeik at Ballmer's Old Time Tavern. There is a cribbage board on the bar and the wall ...
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Boy with Giant Cheese

Date: 1940
Description: Boy dressed in coat and hat and sipping milk from a bottle poses with "Goliath," the world's biggest cheese, which is resting on a wheeled platform. Round ...
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Wisconsin Pavilion Attractions

Date: 1964
Description: Sign outside the Wisconsin Pavilion at the 1964 World's Fair advertising a steak house, a beer garden, and the world's largest cheese. A portion of the pav...
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Relaxing on Frozen Lake Mendota

Date: 01 02 1979
Description: A young man is enjoying an Old Milwaukee beer while sitting in a broken armchair on frozen Lake Mendota.

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