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| 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: | 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: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Color brochure advertising the 1948 Wisconsin State Fair. For the centennial of Wisconsin statehood Wisconsin spent over 5 Million dollars on fourteen new ... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | 3 cent stamp design with a Wisconsin theme in blue. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Design in pencil for the Wisconsin Centennial 3 cent stamp featuring a cow's head and an arm holding a hammer. |
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| Description: | A green Wisconsin flag themed stamp design. |
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| Description: | A reddish Wisconsin America's Dairyland themed stamp design. |
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| Description: | A crowd surrounds a 10-foot mechanical mannequin of Alice in Dairyland at an Alice display for the Wisconsin Centennial Exposition. The Alice could raise h... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Two girls selecting vegetables at an open air market. |
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| Description: | Hough Payloader with post-hole digger powered by a non-International engine. |
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| Description: | This map of the Wisconsin Centennial Exposition is oriented with north to the right. The right hand margin includes "Outstanding Events of the Grandstand P... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | This map of Milwaukee and surrounding suburbs includes an index to the orange bus, rapid transit, street car, trackless trolley, and the green bus lines. T... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Letterhead for the centennial exposition of the Wisconsin State Fair, with an illustration of the golden Daniel Chester French "Wisconsin" statue that ador... |
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| Description: | This map is ink on tracing paper and shows acreages, wards, streets, rivers, and Lake Michigan. Also included are editorial notes in pencil. |
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| Description: | Window display of a toy "George Washington Bridge" constructed from Cozzone Construction Sets. Cozzone Construction Set boxes and parts are also displayed.... |
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| Description: | Group portrait of four snack bar employees, one woman and four men, standing behind a counter. Behind them are shelves with a display of candy in boxes. S... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | This map shows the land parcels, streets, and parks near the harbor. It includes a wind chart and 7 cross sections of borings/probings and docks. It also i... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Sketch of an "Alice in Dairyland" costume for the 10-foot mechanical mannequin of Alice to be displayed at the Wisconsin Centennial Exposition. A contest w... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Thirteen puppets, representing a mixture of human and animal shapes, hang by their strings. A caption on the rear of the image identifies them as recreatio... |
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