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Livestock Judging

Date: 09 1953
Description: A young woman shows her entry in the Central Wisconsin Junior Livestock Competition.
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Paper Mills Meeting

Date: 08 1948
Description: Men and women seated in the audience at a paper mills meeting.
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Woman Presenting Makeup Techniques

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Description: Woman on stage with microphone and visual props, apparently demonstrating eye and other makeup techniques.
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Alice in Dairyland

Date: 08 1948
Description: A woman in a uniform places a lei of orchids around Margaret McGuire's neck as she accepts the role of Centennial Queen on a stage at the Wisconsin Centenn...
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Protester in Front of the Republican Presidential Debate

Date: 11 10 2015
Description: A young woman wearing a hijab is talking into a microphone while talking to a crowd of young men and women. A megaphone is strapped to her waist.
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Polka Party

Date: 1957
Description: A crowd gathers to watch men and women dance the polka at the Verona Legion Hall. A man plays a banjo in the background.
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Interviewing a Bernie Sanders Supporter

Date: 02 11 2016
Description: A reporter is interviewing a woman selling signs in support of Bernie Sanders as a camerawoman is recording them. Another man stands nearby.
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WHA Studio

Date: 02 26 1945
Description: WHA studio, with two women and two men posing around a microphone. The woman to the immediate left of the microphone has been identified as Dorothy Shinsti...
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WHA Summer Radio Workshop

Date: 07 12 1944
Description: Three women at the summer radio workshop sponsored by WHA Radio on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. In the middle is Peg Bolger of the WHA staff...
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Mrs. Ollie Jacobs

Date: 07 26 1941
Description: Mrs. Ollie Jacobs (b. 1862), sitting in wheelchair.
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Alice in Dairyland with Motorcycle Racers

Date: 1952
Description: Beverly Steffen, the 1952 Alice in Dairyland, poses with Harley Davidson motorcyle racers and crew at the Wisconsin State Fair.
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Mrs. Ollie Jacobs

Date: 07 26 1941
Description: Mrs. Ollie Jacobs (b. 1862), sitting in a wheelchair.
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Tomlinson Receives Nussbaum Life Insurance Award

Date: 04 22 1960
Description: Charles W. Tomlinson (center) receives the first annual A. Jack Nussbaum Wisconsin Life Insurance Man Award from Gov. Gaylord Nelson (left). The woman with...
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Bella Abzug

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Description: Bella Abzug delivering a speech in Madison.
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Speaker at Elks Lodge

Date: 1940
Description: A stocky man in a white suit stands at a lectern and microphone in front of the Elks Lodge (Al. Ringling home). Other men and women sit on the platform. A ...
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The Democratic Victory Banquet

Date: 05 11 1933
Description: View from audience, sitting at tables in the foreground, towards a group of men and women standing at a long table adorned with flowers and candles. Behind...
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Waterfront Festival

Date: 06 2014
Description: View from behind of an audience of men and women standing, or sitting in folding chairs, in front of a large stage. Four men are playing guitars, bass, and...
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Wisconsin State Legislature

Date: 01 11 1951
Description: The Wisconsin State Legislature listens to a speech by Governor Walter J. Kohler, Jr. The senators are seated in the first row, with Warren Knowles seated ...
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Interviewing Martha Laning

Date: 02 11 2016
Description: A Fox 6 News reporter is interviewing Wisconsin Democratic Chair Martha Laning in the spin room at the Democratic presidential debate.
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WKOW 27

Date: 04 03 2016
Description: Members of the press setting up their cameras at the Bernie Sanders rally held in the Kohl Center. On the right, a woman is standing and watching, while ho...

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