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| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Beechnut Gum girls, posed in front of an automobile, promoting the product for a national advertising campaign. |
| Date: | 06 25 1932 |
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| Description: | Fanchon and Mario "Rhythm Girls" posing in front of an A&W Root Beer. They are standing in a line and holding mugs of root beer. |
| Date: | 08 12 1932 |
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| Description: | RKO motion picture actress Raquel Torres christening the new model airplane manufactured in Madison by Orland Corben. Corben had flown the airplane that br... |
| Date: | 09 19 1941 |
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| Description: | Kennedy-Mansfield Dairy Co. booth at the East Side Business Men's Association Fall Festival, featuring a winter display of bears eating ice cream and a dai... |
| Date: | 09 05 1940 |
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| Description: | Cheese advertising poster - Woman holding cheese platter and the words "Say Merry Christmas with Aged Select Natural Wisconsin Cheese in gift packs $1.00 p... |
| Date: | 07 27 1934 |
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| Description: | An automobile covered in crepe paper with a beer bottle on the front end, and a sign on the top serves as the Fauerbach Brewing Co. float. It was built to ... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Margaret McGuire, named the first Alice in Dairyland in 1948, promotes Wisconsin cheese. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | The 1955 Alice in Dairyland, Barbara Brown, stands with four Alice Princesses in front of a Wisconsin Department of Agriculture/American Dairy Association ... |
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| Description: | A man described as a giant is holding Meinhardt Raabe with one arm. Meinhardt is dressed as Little Oscar. |
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| Description: | A giant man, wearing a suit and hat, and Meinhardt Raabe, who is dressed as Little Oscar, are standing together and pulling up their pants legs to compare ... |
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| Description: | Meinhardt Raabe, dressed as Little Oscar, is standing behind an Oscar Mayer display counter between two women. |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | Miss Wisconsin 1962, Joan Mary Engh, and Alice in Dairyland 1962-63, Sylvia Lee, enjoy a drink of milk with an elderly gentleman during their visit to the ... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | The driver of the wienermobile finds the entrance to the Oscar Mayer tent at the Wisconsin State Fair too low for it to get in. |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | A woman in a dress, heels, apron, and pearls poses next to an open International Harvester freezer. The freezer, a unit with the lid on top, is full of foo... |
| Date: | 11 28 1949 |
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| Description: | Governor Oscar Rennebohm (left) inspecting the 21 wheels of Marathon County cheddar cheese and keys to Wisconsin's vacation land on the steps of the Wiscon... |
| Date: | 03 11 1956 |
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| Description: | Actor Ernest Borgnine, who was nominated for an Academy Award for his role as a butcher in "Marty", reenacted his role for a publicity photograph at a groc... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | Unfolded, tri-fold, Milwaukee Brewers pocket schedule with Owgust, the "barrel man" logo, Pabst Beer ad, and County Stadium seating chart. |
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| Description: | Wisconsin promotional decal with a map of the state, with many cities marked and drawings of some Wisconsin icons: cheese, cows, deer, beer, Wisconsin Dell... |
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