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| Date: | 05 29 1948 |
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| Description: | Milwaukee Road float for the Wisconsin Centennial Parade, "Wisconsin's First Railroad." |
| Date: | 05 29 1948 |
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| Description: | The Milwaukee Road float for Wisconsin Centennial Parade, "Wisconsin's First Railroad," with four women in sun dresses. |
| Date: | 05 29 1948 |
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| Description: | Milwaukee Road float for the Wisconsin Centennial Parade, "Wisconsin's First Railroad," with women on the float and eleven workers standing in front of the... |
| Date: | 05 29 1948 |
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| Description: | The 100th Anniversary of Wisconsin Statehood envelope on the first day it was issued on May 29, 1948. It is addressed to Governor Oscar Rennebohm, State of... |
| Date: | 05 29 1948 |
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| Description: | View of the set up for the reviewing and bandstands of the Wisconsin State Centennial celebrations on the corner of Monona Avenue and Main Street of the Ca... |
| Date: | 05 29 1948 |
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| Description: | A large crowd gathered around a bandstand on Capitol Square watching a band playing at the Wisconsin State Centennial celebration. |
| Date: | 05 29 1948 |
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| Description: | Governor Oscar Rennebohm receiving a full sheet of the 1948 centennial stamp. |
| Date: | 05 29 1948 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Centennial Parade. Elevated view of the crowd as the U.S. Army 32nd Division passes along Main Street. The Tenney Building is in the background. |
| Date: | 05 29 1948 |
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| Description: | Lansing Wilcox, 102-years of age, the last surviving Wisconsin veteran of the Grand Army of the Republic, is seated in a crowd of people attending a Wiscon... |
| Date: | 05 29 1948 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Centennial Parade. The City of Stoughton float depicts it as "the Wagon City." The Wisconsin State Capitol is in the background. |
| Date: | 05 29 1948 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Centennial Parade. On the street is the University of Wisconsin Bands bass drum on wheels with a depiction of Paul Bunyan on the side. In the bac... |
| Date: | 05 29 1948 |
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| Description: | Eighth grade students from Dane County rural schools attending a mass commencement ceremony at Madison West High School auditorium. The ceremony was part o... |
| Date: | 05 29 1948 |
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| Description: | Reviewing stand for the Wisconsin centennial parade being built on Monona Avenue. Visible in the background are the Woolworth store in the Pioneer Building... |
| Date: | 05 29 1948 |
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| Description: | Youth in traditional Norwegian costume shown performing a folk dance on the stage of Madison West High School auditorium during the mass commencement cerem... |
| Date: | 05 29 1948 |
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| Description: | A group of B-25s fly over the Wisconsin State Capitol dome during the Wisconsin Centennial Parade. |
| Date: | 05 29 1948 |
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| Description: | The viewing stand for the new voter ceremonies at the King Street entrance of the Wisconsin State Capitol. Admiral William D. Leahy (in uniform) is shown i... |
| Date: | 05 29 1948 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Centennial Parade near the Wisconsin State Capitol. The Mazomanie float is titled: "John F. Appleby Invents Twine Knotter in Mazomanie," and is p... |
| Date: | 05 29 1948 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Centennial Parade near the Wisconsin State Capitol. An old Oldsmobile automobile, filled with people, is commemorating "America's Oldest Motor Ca... |
| Date: | 05 29 1948 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Centennial Parade near the Wisconsin State Capitol. The Blue Mounds float depicting Dane County's first settler, Ebenezer Brigham, is coming down... |
| Date: | 05 29 1948 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Centennial Parade near the Wisconsin State Capitol. A gondola float with a band playing Italian music is coming down the street. |
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