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| Date: | 08 20 1952 |
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| Description: | Boys wave from the passenger cars of Uncle Bob's train, while a crowd watches the amusement park ride at the Wisconsin State Fair. |
| Date: | 07 10 1985 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 06 04 1956 |
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| Description: | Milk is distributed at an Eau Claire Braves baseball game by Doris Olsen, a finalist in the "Alice In Dairyland" contest. |
| Date: | 09 02 1958 |
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| Description: | Two young British women, Hilary Birley and Cecily Thompson, watching their first baseball game at a Cubs-Braves double header. |
| Date: | 12 02 1962 |
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| Description: | A group of Madison residents, l-r. Mrs. Arthur Freeman, JoAnn Brandt, Scott Freeman, and Mrs. Mary Engler set up their own "refreshment headquarters" on th... |
| Date: | 1971 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Vel Phillips in her judges's black robe with an American flag behind her. She was the 13th District Children's Court judge, the first woman and... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Young woman facing to the right with her head turned toward viewer, hand on hip, wearing wire-rimmed eyeglasses, a flower in her hair, in long white dress ... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Lutie Stearns, copied from 'The Echo' of 1922, the Milwaukee Normal Annual. |
| Date: | 02 17 1901 |
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| Description: | Baptismal font created by Mrs. S. S. Frackleton, noted ceramic artist. |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | Senator William Proxmire shakes hands with a young constituent at the Wisconsin State Fair. For many years Proxmire's appearance was an institution at the ... |
| Date: | 04 27 1976 |
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| Description: | The set of the fundraising auction of Channel 10, Milwaukee's public television station. Senator William Proxmire is standing to the left of the closed B B... |
| Date: | 08 27 1957 |
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| Description: | William Proxmire, his wife, Ellen (to Proxmire's right), and his supporters celebrate his victory in the special election to fill the Senate seat vacated u... |
| Date: | 08 28 1957 |
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| Description: | Jubilant Proxmire supporters dance in the streets in Milwaukee after Democrat William Proxmire won the special election to fill the seat left vacant by the... |
| Date: | 09 02 1931 |
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| Description: | Governor Philip F. La Follette, the younger son of Senator Robert M. La Follette, Sr., addressing a crowd in the grandstand at the Wisconsin State Fair in ... |
| Date: | 06 1915 |
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| Description: | The Western Hotel. The original tavern was built in 1834 (?) by William Shields (?). In 1845 it was operated by his son Simon Shields. In 1873 the Hotel wa... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Rear view of Robert Taylor's car, which he used for his work as the Milwaukee Journal's first photographer. A sign displayed across the spare tire r... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Actor Jack Carson congratulating the winner of the Wisconsin Dairy Queen at the Wisconsin State Fair, while another competitor is looking on. |
| Date: | 08 30 1954 |
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| Description: | A group of girls, including several Girl Scouts in uniform, photographed in the youth residence hall at the Wisconsin State Fair. |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Alice in Dairyland standing with midget auto race winner Sam Hanks, a noted Indianapolis 500 driver, and Neal Carter, the fastest qualifier in the 100-mile... |
| Date: | 08 30 1954 |
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| Description: | Near the Department of Agriculture's Milk House, two baton twirlers in an obvious promotion photograph sit on top of a car and raise their paper cups of mi... |
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