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Gypsy Rose Lee Fishing

Date: 1950
Description: Gypsy Rose Lee (aka Louise Hovick, 1914-1970) with a large muskie she caught in a northern Wisconsin lake.
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Denita Love

Date: 04 26 1979
Description: A fashionably dressed woman is smiling and holding a book about Diana Ross. Caption reads: "Dressed in Diana Ross style, Denita Love, 23, wore a sophistica...
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Little Oscar at Oscar Mayer Display

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Description: Meinhardt Raabe, dressed as Little Oscar, is standing behind an Oscar Mayer display counter between two women.
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Group of Men at Table

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Description: A group of men, including Edward Murrow, Frank Panzer (second from left), sitting around a table in a restaurant.
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Hildegarde with Governor Oscar Rennebohm

Date: 01 15 1950
Description: Entertainer and pianist Hildegarde, born Hildegarde Loretta Sell, is shown in fur coat with Governor Oscar Rennebohm. She is a Wisconsin native born in Ade...
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Roy Rogers at the Fair

Date: 1958
Description: Motion picture and television "cowboy" stars Roy Rogers and Dale Evans arrive in Milwaukee for their appearance at the Wisconsin State Fair. Although unda...
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Anglo-American Vintage Car Rally

Date: 08 11 1954
Description: Edward Hansen, left, standing in front of his 1918 Biddle automobile at the Wisconsin State Capitol prior to leaving for Scotland to participate in the Ang...
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Young Actress Promotes Movie in Madison

Date: 06 06 1958
Description: Twenty-year-old actress from Chicago, Dianne Hatch, stopped in Madison on a tour to promote the movie "Macabre" which will soon appear in local theaters.
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Electric Cooking with Meinhardt Raabe

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Description: Meinhardt Raabe, dressed as Little Oscar, standing with two women on a television soundstage kitchen.
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Lynn Fontanne Working in the Garden

Date: 1946
Description: Lynn Fontanne using a hand hoe in the Ten Chimneys garden.
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Disabled American Veterans Queen Contestant

Date: 08 08 1931
Description: Disabled American Veterans Ball queen contestant wearing a polka dot dress. She is sitting in a chair in front of an American flag.
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Betty Freidan Speaks

Date: 07 23 1964
Description: Betty Friedan, author of the best-seller, "The Feminine Mystique," spoke on "The Crisis in Women's Identity-A Challenge to Education" in the Great Hall of ...
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Alice in Dairyland

Date: 09 12 1957
Description: Alice in Dairyland, Nancy Trewyn of rural Whitewater, welcomes Mrs. Glenn G. Hays of Ransom, Kansas, the national president of the Women's Christian Temper...
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Lynn Fontanne

Date: 1946
Description: Lynn Fontanne in work clothes and wearing a rhubarb leaf as a hat.
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Sam and Zona Liberace

Date: 08 10 1953
Description: Sam Liberace and his wife, Zona, with their French horn and cello in their home at 2638 East Dayton Street. Sam and his former wife, Frances, are the paren...
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Indira Gandhi Visits Madison

Date: 11 04 1949
Description: Indira Gandhi, daughter of Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru of India, speaking with University of Wisconsin President E.B. Fred inside Memorial Union...
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Molly Ringwald

Date: 06 30 1987
Description: Molly Ringwald on the UW-Madison campus. She is walking on Bascom Hill near the Lincoln Monument in front of Bascom Hall.
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Lindbergh at Camp Randall Stadium

Date: 08 22 1927
Description: Charles Lindbergh meeting local dignitaries, with the crowd of admirers behind him seated in the stadium. Partly obscured to his right is Governor Schmedem...
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Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne in the Garden

Date: 1935
Description: Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne hold a basket of vegetables picked from their garden at Ten Chimneys.
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Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne Picnic

Date: 1942
Description: Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne having a picnic while leaning against a stack of cut grain in a field at Ten Chimneys.

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