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| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | The ceremony marking the first Wisconsin Central Airlines flight at Madison. Margaret "Mickey" Morey, the wife of Howard Morey, is about to cut the ribbon.... |
| 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. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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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. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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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: | An original colored lithograph advertising the Chicago and North Western Railway's 100th Anniversary from 1848 to 1948. The poster features the artist Paul... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Holiday card of the history of the State of Wisconsin, 1848-1948. Shows a map of Wisconsin with many historical and themed elements. Image was created by w... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Holiday card created by Wisconsin artist Alfred A. Sessler. The image is of Santa Claus (in the Sessler style) holding a bag of snow in one hand and a smal... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Holiday card from an employee to their employer. On a white sheet of paper with holly on it, with a green background. The text reads: "Merry Christmas to a... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Holiday card that depicts a slide projector. The blue holder, which has a slide projector printed on it, has a die cut window that holds a transparent disk... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Holiday card of a trainload of skiers with their skis on their way to the slopes. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Lakewood School students, costumed for various performances under the general title "The Peoples of Wisconsin" given in connection with the Wisconsin Cente... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Two women smile and look at a cake; one is holding a knife. Caption reads: "Madison, Wis. 1947-9. Two ladies known as the "Bauhs twins" on their 83rd birth... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Groups of people are on four or five boats traveling on the Wisconsin River, with a shoreline behind them on the left. In the distance is the opposite shor... |
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