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| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Miss America Marilyn Meseke posing with International Harvester cream separators at the National Dairy Show. |
| 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: | 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: | 04 02 1949 |
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| Description: | Miss America of 1948, BeBe Shopp, second from left, rides in the back seat of a convertible with Jaenne Faber, Suzaanne Wheeler, and Anne Barber. BeBe Shop... |
| Date: | 05 16 2003 |
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| Description: | Miss America 2003, Erika Harold, at Valley View Mall, wearing a crown and holding a microphone. |
| Date: | 05 2003 |
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| Description: | Miss Wisconsin 2002, Jayme Dawicki, wears a crown and sits at a table autographing photographs of herself. |
| Date: | 07 21 1953 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 09 12 1957 |
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| 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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| Description: | Governor Warren Knowles helps to slice a wedge of cheese. Left to right: an unidentified Colonel; Dorothy Guidry Knowles; State Senator Gerald Lorge; Miss ... |
| Date: | 10 22 1957 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Marilyn Elaine Van Derbur, the crowned Miss America for 1958, as she visited Madison on her tour of the country. |
| Date: | 10 22 1957 |
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| Description: | Miss America, Marilyn Elaine van Derbur, being crowned "Madison's Miss 1957 United Givers' Fund Queen" at the charity's banquet during the Madison stop on ... |
| Date: | 10 22 1957 |
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| Description: | Miss America, Marilyn Elaine van Derbur, pinning charity information to a board at the United Givers' Fund at the banquet during the Madison stop on her to... |
| Date: | 10 22 1957 |
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| Description: | Young Madison girls requesting autographs of Miss America, Marilyn Elaine van Derbur, during a fashion show at the Casey and O'Brien, Inc. store on Atwood ... |
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