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| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Beechnut Gum girls, posed in front of an automobile, promoting the product for a national advertising campaign. |
| Date: | 06 25 1932 |
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| Description: | Fanchon and Mario "Rhythm Girls" posing in front of an A&W Root Beer. They are standing in a line and holding mugs of root beer. |
| Date: | 11 02 1930 |
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| Description: | Group of people, including dwarfs and midgets, posing with "the worlds largest tire" in front of the RKO Orpheum Theatre as part of a promotion for Goodyea... |
| Date: | 08 12 1932 |
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| Description: | RKO motion picture actress Raquel Torres christening the new model airplane manufactured in Madison by Orland Corben. Corben had flown the airplane that br... |
| Date: | 08 10 1934 |
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| Description: | Three "most beautiful employees" of the Chicago World's Fair on a publicity tour: Patricia Marquan, Kay Griffith and Dorothy Le Fold. |
| Date: | 07 24 1933 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of women posing for a Lux soap publicity drive on the steps in front of the Clarridge Apartments. |
| Date: | 10 06 1930 |
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| Description: | Miss America, Margaret Ekdahl, models Peacock brand pumps (shoes) at the Burdick & Murray Department Store. |
| Date: | 10 06 1930 |
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| Description: | Miss America, Margaret Ekdahl, models a blue and rose Moire evening gown with a short white Dolman fur wrap, at the Burdick & Murray Department Store. |
| Date: | 02 07 1949 |
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| Description: | Committee members creating the guest program for "A Combine of Comedy" produced by Phi Beta. Left to right: Mrs. Gordon (Eleanor) Rowley, 904 Oakland Avenu... |
| Date: | 04 14 1953 |
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| Description: | Five Prairie du Chien women dressed in period dresses and hats posing for a group portrait with Governor Walter Kohler at the Wisconsin State Capitol build... |
| Date: | 05 13 1953 |
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| Description: | Governor Walter Kohler (right) visiting with four members in period costume (a woman, a man dressed as an Indian, and two members of the Brothers of the Br... |
| Date: | 07 21 1953 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Mary Ellen Jenks, the new Alice in Dairyland welcoming Elsie, the famed Borden Company cow to Madison. Elsie is wearing a heavily decorated lea... |
| Date: | 05 31 1954 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Robert L. Sakrison, chairman of publicity for the Federated Garden Clubs flower show, arranging a bouquet of tulips. |
| Date: | 09 21 1954 |
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| Description: | Helen Matheson, Sunday editor of the Wisconsin State Journal, shows a publicity handbook she edited to Mrs. Herman Derleth, president of the Eagles'... |
| Date: | 09 21 1954 |
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| Description: | Elenor Shefferman, woman's editor of the Wisconsin State Journal, points to a display of woman's page features to Emily Pokorny of the Century Club ... |
| Date: | 09 21 1954 |
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| Description: | An unidentified woman (left), Mrs. William R. (Helen) Winner, representing the Dane County Veterinary Medical Auxiliary, and Mrs. Louis (Idella) Knickmeyer... |
| Date: | 01 25 1958 |
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| Description: | Because Chester Hartel, husband of the Wisconsin state president of Epsilon Sigma Alpha sorority is a polio victim, the three chapters of the sorority in M... |
| Date: | 10 16 1957 |
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| Description: | The Madison Visiting Nurse Service held its annual meeting at Blackhawk Country Club. The Visiting Nurse Service, a Red Feather agency, is the only service... |
| Date: | 06 11 1958 |
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| Description: | Security State Bank presented children with ice cream cones in recognition of June Dairy Month. Leo Lunenschloss, bank president, is looking on as Sarah Ho... |
| Date: | 06 21 1976 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of a woman standing between two men. In the background is a Northwest Airlines airplane. The woman is wearing a crown, and a sash that reads... |
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