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| Date: | 02 21 1882 |
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| Description: | Chromolithograph poster advertising a Milwaukee Mardi Gras celebration, arranged by the Turnverein and Milwaukee Musical Societies, and held at the Exposit... |
| Date: | 08 24 1968 |
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| Description: | Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Kress, dressed in lederhosen, enjoy beer and sweet corn at the Mid-summer Festival. |
| Date: | 12 20 1947 |
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| Description: | Members of Local 1114, United Steelworkers of America (Harnischfeger Corporation) at a holiday costume party. |
| Date: | 11 08 1947 |
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| Description: | Prize winners at a costume dance sponsored by Local 1114, United Steelworkers of America (Harnischfeger Corporation). |
| Date: | 05 18 1919 |
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| Description: | Scene from Poale Zion Chasidim, an Americanization pageant held in the Milwaukee auditorium to welcome Milwaukee's new citizens. |
| Date: | 06 03 1939 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of female graduation procession. |
| Date: | 02 12 1963 |
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| Description: | Six members of the same family form the complete cast of a library playhouse production that was to be televised. |
| Date: | 06 26 1963 |
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| Description: | Hope United Church of Christ members are putting on a skit of the "roaring twenties." |
| Date: | 02 13 1969 |
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| Description: | The Wonder Bread team, an all-female bowling team getting ready to compete. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | A sketch of the winning dress designed by Betty Lou Jahn of Milwaukee for the first Alice in Dairyland in 1948. Not only was the design worn by the first A... |
| Date: | 08 22 1953 |
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| Description: | Mary Ellen Jenks, Alice in Dairyland in 1953, dressed in a formal gown, standing with a cow, a clown, and another woman in a Golden Guernsey display. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Patricia Ferneding of Hartland, Wisconsin takes her Lightweight Hunter named Just So over a jump at the Wisconsin State Fair. Miss Ferneding won the Ladies... |
| Date: | 04 18 1969 |
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| Description: | Miss Jacqueline Alice Biksadski, 17, representing Milwaukee Slovaks at the annual Folk Fair, wearing a traditional Slovak dress and carrying a loaf of brea... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | A group of Jewish people dressed as Old Testament characters standing in front of American and Israeli flags. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | A group of Jewish people dressed as Old Testament characters standing in front of the flag of Israel . |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | A Jewish man, woman, and child dressed as Old Testament characters standing in front of an Israeli flag. |
| Date: | 08 06 1948 |
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| Description: | Mary Rennebohm, wife of Governor Oscar Rennebohm, is shown dressed in a nineteenth century gown and bonnet while serving as a hostess at the opening day of... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Rose and Walter Wolf Peltz with son, Andre, who is dressed up in a cowboy costume, at Lake Park. |
| Date: | 1990 |
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| Description: | Costumed actors on a Third Ward street transformed to represent the 1930s for the made-for-TV movie "Dillinger". |
| Date: | 07 04 1944 |
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| Description: | Band, in full regalia, playing tubas, clarinets and trumpets as well as other instruments, outside at a Fourth of July parade. There is a brick building in... |
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