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| Date: | 09 04 1958 |
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| Description: | Dedication of Wisconsin's first expressway, a seven-mile stretch of Interstate Highway I-94 in Waukesha County, Wisconsin. Presiding at the ribbon-cutting ... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Richard M. Nixon welcomed by Barbara Bird, Honey Queen, and Wisconsin Governor Vernon W. Thomson with cheese package at the Oshkosh Airport. |
| Date: | 10 04 1964 |
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| Description: | Governor John Reynolds, state highway officials, and beauty queens are in attendance as the ribbon is cut to open a new Wisconsin highway. One of the youn... |
| Date: | 08 08 1931 |
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| Description: | Disabled American Veterans Ball queen contestant wearing a polka dot dress. She is sitting in a chair in front of an American flag. |
| Date: | 08 08 1931 |
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| Description: | Queen contestant at the Disabled American Veterans Ball, standing and posing with a flag. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Margaret McGuire, the 1948 Alice in Dairyland, stands next to a Wisconsin Central Airlines airplane with Governor Oscar Rennebohm and another man. |
| Date: | 09 02 1953 |
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| Description: | 1952 Alice in Dairyland Beverly Ann Steffen and 1953 Alice in Dairyland Mary Ellen Jenks standing in front of a "Smoke Your Own Fish" stand at the 1953 Wis... |
| Date: | 06 07 1948 |
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| Description: | Governor Rennebohm placing a wreath of red roses on the head of Highland's Margaret McGuire, who was selected as Wisconsin's first Alice in Dairyland. Marg... |
| Date: | 06 07 1948 |
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| Description: | Newly crowned Alice in Dairyland, Margaret McGuire, and governor Oscar Rennebohm shown with Highland's oldest resident, 93-year old Chris Blabaum at Highla... |
| Date: | 06 07 1948 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin's first Alice in Dairyland, Margaret McGuire, riding on a float in a parade in her hometown. |
| Date: | 12 02 1948 |
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| Description: | Governor Rennebohm, right, with unidentified man and woman standing around a large block of cheese decorated with candles and a ribbon. Engraved on the ch... |
| Date: | 07 21 1953 |
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| Description: | Elsie, the Borden Co. cow with Gov. Walter Kohler, acting mayor Carl Wilhelm, Alice in Dairyland Mary Ellen Jenks and another man. They are posing together... |
| Date: | 10 1968 |
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| Description: | Alice in Dairyland, Bobbie Thoreson, holding a platter of cheese, poses with four men at the World Food Expo. |
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| Description: | The Fairest of the Fair, Governor Knowles, an unknown man, and Alice in Dairyland pose at the "Milwaukee Sentinel" exhibit at the Wisconsin State Fair. |
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| Description: | Governor Warren Knowles helps to slice a wedge of cheese. Left to right: an unidentified Colonel; Dorothy Guidry Knowles; State Senator Gerald Lorge; Miss ... |
| Date: | 06 07 1948 |
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| Description: | Alice in Dairyland, Margaret McGuire, chatting with Governor Rennebohm at the Kick-off for the Alice in Dairyland Program. She is wearing a full-length for... |
| Date: | 08 23 1997 |
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| Description: | Alice in Dairyland, Courtney Ott, wearing a crown and a sash, is sitting on the back of a motorcycle driven by Governor Tommy Thompson at the start of the ... |
| Date: | 07 26 1964 |
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| Description: | The newly crowned beauty queens and attendants from St. Croix Falls and neighboring Taylors Falls stand with Willis Erickson (right), president of the Polk... |
| Date: | 06 05 1959 |
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| Description: | Portrait of "Alice in Dairyland" winner of 1959-60, Rosemary Robertson, 20, of Menasha. |
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