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Alice in Dairyland, Margaret McGuire

Date: 1952
Description: Margaret McGuire, named the first Alice in Dairyland in 1948, promotes Wisconsin cheese.
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Alice in Dairyland, LaVonne Hermann

Date: 1949
Description: LaVonne Hermann of Mount Horeb, the 1949 Alice in Dairyland, is shown in a formal pose, wearing her crown.
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H.S. Manchester, Inc., Toni Wave Display Window

Date: 06 19 1949
Description: H.S. Manchester Inc., Toni wave display window featuring boxes of Toni permanent wave product and a cartoon of a woman hanging over a tree branch with the ...
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Chapelle with Arm Band

Date: 03 1942
Description: Dickey Chapelle seated by an open window, wearing the correspondent arm band. Taken at time of her first recognition by the War Department as Look's...
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Young Woman at State Republican Convention

Date: 05 25 1968
Description: Mary Jo Sylvestor wears campaign buttons supporting Jerry Leonard as the Republican candidate for United States Senate. She is attending the State Republic...
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Arden Shenker and Mark Laufman

Date: 1975
Description: Arden Shenker presents the Madison Jewish Community Council Young Leadership award to Mark Laufman.
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Student Nurse Susan Beckman

Date: 05 01 1971
Description: Susan Beckman, a student nurse at County General Hospital, carries a sign protesting the portrayal of nurses in a movie "The Student Nurses".
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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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Vel Phillips and Coretta Scott King

Date: 10 1969
Description: Vel Phillips sitting next to Coretta Scott King. Vel is wearing two button pins on her lapel. Coretta is holding in her lap the book "My Life with Martin L...
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Margaret McGuire at Alice in Dairyland Contest

Date: 05 18 1948
Description: Margaret McGuire, winner of the Alice in Dairyland contest at the Schraeder Hotel. She is wearing a light-colored, floor length, strapless dress with dark ...
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Mayor Soglin as Honorary Host

Date: 06 27 1990
Description: Mayor Soglin standing at the microphone as Honorary Host of Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra's Concerts on the Square.
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Ruth Draper

Date: 1947
Description: Actress Ruth Draper looking at the camera with a smile. She is wearing a flat hat with two pheasant feathers on it, along with a large checkered scarf and ...
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Affirmative Action

Date: 1976
Description: A woman and a man are working on a road construction crew, with a dump truck full of sand behind them. They are wearing work clothes and hard hats. In the ...
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Esther Van Wagoner Tufty Leaving La Guardia Field

Date: 1948
Description: Typed note with photograph reads: "Pan American World Airways Photo, To Write on Tension in Germany, Miss Esther Van Wagoner Tufty, Washington newspaper co...

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