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Street Parade for First Alice in Dairyland

Date: 06 07 1948
Description: The crowd in the street at a parade honoring Margaret McGuire who was selected Wisconsin's first Alice in Dairyland.
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Fred Wenger Cheese Factory

Date: 06 20 1948
Description: Man and woman standing outside the Fred Wenger cheese factory.
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Blaney Farms 4-H Booth

Date: 07 30 1948
Description: Blaney Farms 4-H booth with display: "Fight Weed Thieves." Three young women and one young man are shown with a display of farm products. They are all hold...
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Wisconsin Central Airlines Dedication

Date: 08 03 1948
Description: Margaret McGuire, Alice in Dairyland, at left, christens the "Northliner Alice in Dairyland" with a bottle of milk at the Madison municipal airport, with N...
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Standard Oil Farm Meeting

Date: 08 04 1948
Description: View of speakers platform from the back of the room at a Standard Oil Co. farm meeting.
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Governor Rennebohm with Cow

Date: 08 1948
Description: Governor Oscar Rennebohm with cattle handler and a cow next to a truck, with a painted sign on the door that says: "Ray Farness, Morrisonville, WI."
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Madison Visitors from India

Date: 09 08 1948
Description: Mr. and Mrs. Sunderlal Mehta, of Saharanpur, India, with their son, Sudarshan. Their son studied at the College of Agriculture in the University of Wiscons...
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Man Vacuuming a Cow

Date: 08 13 1948
Description: A man vacuuming the back of a cow in a barn using a DAIRY-VAC machine.
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Equipment of the University of Wisconsin Meteorology Department

Date: 09 29 1948
Description: Assistant Professor Reid Bryson of the University of Wisconsin Meteorology department, and student Charles Thorngate, Middleton, examine an instrument loca...
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Lincoln School Fourth Graders

Date: 10 05 1948
Description: Two fourth graders at Lincoln School, Freddiemae Hill, left, and Russell Allen, Jr, right, are observing 10,000 bees that are preparing for winter in their...
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Gray Ladies of the Dane County Red Cross

Date: 11 01 1948
Description: Mrs. J.H. Svendsen, a volunteer Gray Lady of the Dane County Red Cross, shown tending patient's plants in the greenhouse at the Mendota hopsital for the me...
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Speranza's Neighbors Dig Basement for New Shop

Date: 11 06 1948
Description: Blooming Grove neighbors of John Speranza digging a basement for a new Speranza shop which will replace the one lost to a fire that also destroyed the Sper...
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Manchesters Window Art

Date: 11 06 1948
Description: Featured in a Harry S. Manchesters window titled "Dreamland," 2 East Mifflin Street, is a painting of a farm near Madison by John Atherton for The Satur...
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American Dairy Association Dinner

Date: 11 29 1948
Description: Leaders of the diary industry are shown at the dinner meeting of the American Dairy Association at the Loraine Hotel. The ADA was organized in Madison in 1...
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American Dairy Association Display

Date: 11 29 1948
Description: Leaders of the American Dairy Association met at the Loraine Hotel. The ADA was organized in Madison in 1938. Margaret McGuire, Alice in Dairyland, is sh...
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Wisconsin State Brand Cheese

Date: 12 02 1948
Description: Governor Rennebohm, right, with unidentified man and woman standing around a large block of cheese decorated with candles and a ribbon. Engraved on the ch...
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Salad Exhibit Prepared by Carson Gulley's Class

Date: 01 24 1949
Description: Close-up of a salad exhibit. Includes a pickled fish mold surrounded with deviled eggs and parsley prepared by Carson Gulley's cooking class.
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Aerial View of Monroe

Date: 01 30 1949
Description: Aerial view of town, with a large building on a town square in the center. The edges of town are bordered by fields and farms.
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Deb in the Barnyard

Date: 01 28 1949
Description: Anne Blakeley poses in a Scandinavian-style sweater with a Shropshire lamb in a University of Wisconsin-Madison barn. Anne Blakeley, from Philadelphia, is ...
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Professor G. William Longenecker in a Greenhouse

Date: 02 08 1949
Description: University of Wisconsin professor of horticulture G. William Longenecker with cyclamen plants in a greenhouse.

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