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| Date: | 09 04 1958 |
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| Description: | Dedication of Wisconsin's first expressway, a seven-mile stretch of Interstate Highway I-94 in Waukesha County, Wisconsin. Presiding at the ribbon-cutting ... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | A young woman dressed in a bathing suit and wading boots poses for a promotional photograph for the Wisconsin cranberry industry at Thunder Lake Marsh. Tw... |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Alice in Dairyland, Marjean Czerwinski, wearing her crown and gown, rides on the back of a Harley-Davidson motorcycle. |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Richard M. Nixon welcomed by Barbara Bird, Honey Queen, and Wisconsin Governor Vernon W. Thomson with cheese package at the Oshkosh Airport. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Miss America Marilyn Meseke posing with International Harvester cream separators at the National Dairy Show. |
| Date: | 10 04 1964 |
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| Description: | Governor John Reynolds, state highway officials, and beauty queens are in attendance as the ribbon is cut to open a new Wisconsin highway. One of the youn... |
| 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: | 08 08 1931 |
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| Description: | Disabled American Veterans Ball queen contestant wearing a polka dot dress. She is sitting in a chair in front of an American flag. |
| Date: | 08 08 1931 |
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| Description: | Queen contestant at the Disabled American Veterans Ball, standing and posing with a flag. |
| Date: | 10 06 1930 |
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| Description: | Miss America, Margaret Ekdahl, models a Shirley Lea red dress and black vest at the Burdick & Murray Department Store. |
| 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: | 10 06 1930 |
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| Description: | Miss America, Margaret Ekdahl, standing in the Burdick & Murray department store modeling black pumps (shoes). Women are sitting in chairs behind her on th... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Alice in Dairyland, and two employees of Steve's Cheese, sample a piece of the World's largest cheese. The gigantic piece of cheese was part of Wisconsin's... |
| Date: | 06 30 1950 |
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| Description: | The 1950 Alice in Dairyland, Virgina Ruth Peterson, posed sitting on a fence after she was chosen for the title from a field of 18 in the final judging at ... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Alice in Dairyland for 1955, Barbara Brown, milking a cow by hand. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Margaret McGuire, named the first Alice in Dairyland in 1948, promotes Wisconsin cheese. |
| Date: | 08 26 1953 |
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| Description: | Alice in Dairyland, Mary Ellen Jenks, stands with a cow on a float representing the Golden Guernsey Dairy Co-op in the Dairy Parade at the Wisconsin State ... |
| Date: | 08 30 1954 |
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| Description: | Mary Ellen McCabe, 1954 Alice in Dairyland, enters State Fair Park in her official convertible, escorted by police officers on Harley-Davidson motorcycles ... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Alice in Dairyland, Doris Olsen, holds a cream puff, always a favorite Wisconsin State Fair treat, as she talks with two bakers at the fair. |
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