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| Date: | 02 24 1942 |
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| Description: | Actress Helen Hayes and Sister Marie Aileen Klein, Dean of Edgewood College, in the Pine Room. |
| 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: | 11 1954 |
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| Description: | Advertising proof created by Young and Rubicam for the International Harvester Company. Features a photograph of Ronald Colman and Benita Hume with the tex... |
| Date: | 01 29 1948 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Helen Keller, age 67, taken during her visit to Madison on a speaking tour. |
| Date: | 08 16 1929 |
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| Description: | A woman, possibly actress Mary Duncan, sits behind the wheel of a McCormick-Deering tractor while a man stands beside her on the set of the Fox Film produc... |
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| Description: | Ed Sullivan and Shari Lewis pose with puppets Topo Gigio and Lambchop. |
| 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: | 08 10 1953 |
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| Description: | Sam Liberace and his wife, Zona, with their French horn and cello in their home at 2638 East Dayton Street. Sam and his former wife, Frances, are the paren... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Publicity still of actress Margaret Hamilton, posing with a hat and handbag. |
| Date: | 03 31 1971 |
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| Description: | Front cover and menu page of a reception at Perino's restaurant in honor of champion figure skater and screen star Sonja Henie, given by her widower, Niels... |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | Alfred Lunt stands at the edge of a table holding a beverage, near Lynn Fontanne who is sitting, in the kitchen of the cottage at their Ten Chimneys estate... |
| 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: | 06 06 1958 |
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| Description: | Twenty-year-old actress from Chicago, Dianne Hatch, stopped in Madison on a tour to promote the movie "Macabre" which will soon appear in local theaters. |
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| Description: | Faye Emerson sitting next to Eleanor Roosevelt. The two are both wearing nice, but casual dresses. Faye was married to Eleanor's son Elliott from 1944-1950... |
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| Description: | Faye Emerson standing next to an enlarged cover for the June 20, 1950 edition of the magazine People Today. She is featured on the cover. Faye is al... |
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