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Labor Works For Highway Safety

Date: 1969
Description: Three men, including Governor Patrick J. Lucey, pose in front of a sign that reads: "Labor Works For Highway Safety. Make Labor Day Weekend A Safe, Pleasan...
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Kiddie Camp Display Window

Date: 04 27 1934
Description: Three little girls, members of the Emerson Fresh Air school and the Longfellow Nutrition room, playing with puppies in the Capital Times Kiddie Camp...
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Golf Stunt

Date: 06 17 1932
Description: Men posing during a golf stunt, as they try to hit a golf ball off a man's nose while he is lying on his back on the floor in the lobby of the Orpheum Thea...
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Giant Holding Meinhardt Raabe

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Description: A man described as a giant is holding Meinhardt Raabe with one arm. Meinhardt is dressed as Little Oscar.
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Giant Man and Meinhardt Raabe

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Description: A giant man, wearing a suit and hat, and Meinhardt Raabe, who is dressed as Little Oscar, are standing together and pulling up their pants legs to compare ...
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King Tarz, The Lion

Date: 11 06 1941
Description: King Tarz, The Seasonal Jungle Actor, (a lion) was brought to Madison to publicize "Tarzan's Secret Treasure" which stars Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sul...
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Daisy Bates at a Book Promotion

Date: 1962
Description: Daisy Bates speaking with unidentified man wearing eyeglasses. Copies of her memoir "The Long Shadow of Little Rock", and plaques from the NAACP for the ni...
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Female Shopper with Smucker's Strawberry Preserves

Date: 1970
Description: A publicity photograph of a bespectacled young woman, in a 1960s mod-style dress, examining a jar of Smucker's strawberry preserves in an aisle of a grocer...
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Wisconsin State Journal Publicity Workshop

Date: 09 21 1954
Description: Helen Matheson, Sunday editor of the Wisconsin State Journal, shows a publicity handbook she edited to Mrs. Herman Derleth, president of the Eagles'...
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Wisconsin State Journal Publicity Workshop

Date: 09 21 1954
Description: Elenor Shefferman, woman's editor of the Wisconsin State Journal, points to a display of woman's page features to Emily Pokorny of the Century Club ...
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Wisconsin State Journal Publicity Workshop

Date: 09 21 1954
Description: An unidentified woman (left), Mrs. William R. (Helen) Winner, representing the Dane County Veterinary Medical Auxiliary, and Mrs. Louis (Idella) Knickmeyer...
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In La Follette's Shadow

Date: 07 1972
Description: Congressman David R. Obey and Senator Gaylord Nelson posed talking in front of the statue of Robert M. La Follette, Sr. in the National Statuary Hall in th...
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"Black Like Me" Lobby Card

Date: 1964
Description: Lobby card for the Walter Reade-Sterling film "Black Like Me," including a scene of Sorrell Booke (playing Dr. Jackson) and James Whitmore (playing John Ho...
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"Black Like Me" Lobby Card

Date: 1964
Description: Lobby card for the Walter Reade-Sterling film "Black Like Me," including a scene of James Whitmore (playing John Horton) sitting at a table with two uniden...
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"The Shadow Returns" Lobby Card

Date: 1946
Description: Lobby card for the Monogram film "The Shadow Returns," featuring several characters on a patio investigating a body that has just fallen from the roof.
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First Campaign

Date: 1962
Description: Running for his first term in the Wisconsin Assembly, Wausau Democrat Obey met with Governor Gaylord Nelson to take a publicity photograph.
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Garbage

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Description: Color publicity photograph of the band members from Garbage, a Madison, Wisconsin rock band. From left to right are: Butch Vig, Steve Marker, Shirley Manso...
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Garbage

Date: 12 24 2001
Description: Color publicity photograph of the band members of Garbage, a Madison, Wisconsin rock band. From left to right are Shirley Manson, Steve Marker, Duke Erikso...
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Honor Among Thieves

Date: 07 22 1988
Description: Publicity photograph of the four band members from Honor Among Thieves, a Madison, Wisconsin rock band. From right to left are Pat Dieter, Doug DeRosa, Joe...
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Little Blue Crunchy Things

Date: 1995
Description: Publicity photograph of Little Blue Crunchy Things, a Milwaukee, Wisconsin rock/hip hop/funk band. Four of the members are writing out the initials "LbCT" ...

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