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Elsie, the Borden Company Cow

Date: 07 21 1953
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...
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Elsie, the Borden Co. Cow

Date: 07 21 1953
Description: Elsie, the Borden Co. cow with Gov. Walter Kohler, acting mayor Carl Wilhelm, Alice in Dairyland Mary Ellen Jenks and another man. They are posing together...
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Dairy Foods Festival

Date: 05 14 1954
Description: Alice in Dairyland, grand marshall of Madison's Dairy Foods Festival, sits in the back of a convertible parked in front of a building.
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Dairy Foods Festival

Date: 05 14 1954
Description: Alice in Dairyland (left) sits at a table with a group of men during a luncheon for Madison's Dairy Foods Festival.
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Alice in Dairyland with Chocolate Milk

Date: 05 11 1954
Description: Alice in Dairyland and an unidentified man toast glasses of chocolate milk while seated in a luncheon booth at Rennobahm's drug store. An advertising poste...
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Alice in Dairyland

Date: 10 1968
Description: Alice in Dairyland, Bobbie Thoreson, holding a platter of cheese, poses with four men at the World Food Expo.
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Alice in Dairyland

Date: 09 12 1957
Description: Alice in Dairyland, Nancy Trewyn of rural Whitewater, welcomes Mrs. Glenn G. Hays of Ransom, Kansas, the national president of the Women's Christian Temper...
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Dairy Day at Alpha Gamma Rho Fraternity

Date: 12 02 1958
Description: Barbara Haslow (left), Alice in Dairyland, is the guest of honor at the sixth annual Dairy Day of Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity. With her are fraternity membe...
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Wisconsin Dairy Queen and her Court

Date: 08 27 1935
Description: Group portrait of Rose Rosandlich, from Granton, who was elected Dairy Queen in 1935, and her court. They are, from left to right: Harry [?], Bernice Wegne...
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U.W. Engineering Students Beard Contest

Date: 03 09 1961
Description: A profile view of three bearded engineering students who are posing and admiring trophies. The students, left to right, are John Menning, Dave Ludwig, and ...
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Opening of A & P Supermarket

Date: 09 11 1962
Description: Miss Wisconsin, Joan Mary Engh, is cutting a symbolic ribbon signifying the official opening of the new A&P supermarket in the Hilldale Shopping Center. As...
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Abbie DeBuhr, Miss Madison

Date: 02 1964
Description: Portrait of University of Wisconsin student Abbie DeBuhr, winner of the 1964 Miss Madison contest.
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Miss Wisconsin Rural Electrification

Date: 03 31 1964
Description: Janice Clawson, New Lisbon, second from left, was crowned Miss Wisconsin Rural Electrification at the annual meeting of the Wisconsin Rural Electric Cooper...
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Miss Madison 1964

Date: 05 14 1964
Description: Abbie de Buhr, Miss Madison of 1964, selects shoes to wear in the Miss Wisconsin pageant at Oshkosh.
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Contestants Register for Miss Madison Pageant

Date: 01 08 1965
Description: Contestants register for the annual Miss Madison contest sponsored by the Madison Junior Chamber of Commerce. Jerry Sheehy, 5005 Sherwood Road, is chairman...
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Governor Tommy Thompson and Alice in Dairyland

Date: 08 23 1997
Description: Alice in Dairyland, Courtney Ott, wearing a crown and a sash, is sitting on the back of a motorcycle driven by Governor Tommy Thompson at the start of the ...
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Miss Madison Receives Prize Ride

Date: 08 11 1964
Description: Miss Madison, Abbie DeBuhr, stepping from a seaplane to the Memorial Union pier after a flight and cruise as guest of the Mohs Seaplane Corp. Burce Mohs, l...
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Law Firm Secretary to be Queen at University of Notre Dame

Date: 10 04 1957
Description: Carol Laufenberg, a Madison law firm secretary, boarding a plane headed for the University of Notre Dame where she will be queen of the Arts and Letters Ba...
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Miss America Visits Madison

Date: 10 22 1957
Description: Portrait of Marilyn Elaine Van Derbur, the crowned Miss America for 1958, as she visited Madison on her tour of the country.
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Miss America Visits Madison

Date: 10 22 1957
Description: Miss America, Marilyn Elaine van Derbur, giving a speech at Madison's United Givers' Fund banquet during the Madison stop on her tour of the country.

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