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| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | The 16 finalists in the 1949 Alice in Dairyland competition pose in front of the Press-Radio building at State Fair Park. LaVonne Herman, fifth from the l... |
| 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: | 1948 |
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| Description: | A sketch of the winning dress designed by Betty Lou Jahn of Milwaukee for the first Alice in Dairyland in 1948. Not only was the design worn by the first A... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | LaVonne Hermann of Mount Horeb, the 1949 Alice in Dairyland, is shown in a formal pose, wearing her crown. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Alice in Dairyland, Margaret McGuire, and Elsie the Cow and her calf Beauregard, stand on a parade float with two men in downtown Milwaukee, while a male o... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Boys, in background, watching as a pig, in the foreground, is taking a stroll around the Wisconsin State Fairgrounds. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Actor Jack Carson congratulating the winner of the Wisconsin Dairy Queen at the Wisconsin State Fair, while another competitor is looking on. |
| Date: | 08 1948 |
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| Description: | The Department of Agriculture's Cheese promotion booth at the Wisconsin Centennial Exposition. The booth urges consumers to "Serve Wisconsin Dated Cheese."... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Alice in Dairyland standing with midget auto race winner Sam Hanks, a noted Indianapolis 500 driver, and Neal Carter, the fastest qualifier in the 100-mile... |
| Date: | 08 1946 |
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| Description: | Fairgoers examine exhibits about meat, "Man's Favorite Food," sponsored by the National Livestock and Meat Board at the Wisconsin State Fair. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Phyllis Paulson of Stoughton with the calf she planned to enter in the Junior Fair competition at the Wisconsin State Fair. The calf's name was Elsie, perh... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Freddy Lang of rural Dane County with the Guernsey calf he planned to enter in the Junior Fair competition at the Wisconsin State Fair. |
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