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| Date: | 08 15 1942 |
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| Description: | A scene from the Greendale Civilian Defense Rally. Mothers and children sit at a picnic table outside of the "Bendfelt House of Fine Ice Cream" stand opera... |
| Date: | 09 06 1988 |
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| Description: | A woman overlooks the Labor-at-the-Lakefront festival next to a banner that reads "Buy Union," "Buy Made in USA," and "Keep the Heart of America Beating." |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | Senator William Proxmire shakes hands with constituents at the Wisconsin State Fair while eating an ear of corn. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | A crowd surrounds a 10-foot mechanical mannequin of Alice in Dairyland at an Alice display for the Wisconsin Centennial Exposition. The Alice could raise h... |
| Date: | 08 09 1942 |
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| Description: | Two couples in Hungarian costumes, one man holding a scythe (kasza), admiring a sheaf of wheat in a wheat field. The twig tied to the scythe in a triangle ... |
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| Description: | A woman staffing a souvenir booth at a fair. Souvenirs being sold include pinwheels and flags. The booth has "NOVELTIES" and "SOUV" painted on its sides. ... |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Letterhead stationery of the Milwaukee Industrial Exposition Association, with an engraving of the building constructed for that event. |
| Date: | 08 15 1942 |
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| Description: | A mock shotgun wedding at a Civilian Defense Rally, with a solider marrying a woman with a man dressed as a country priest presiding. |
| Date: | 08 21 1940 |
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| Description: | An airplane is pulling a banner reading: "Heil says repeal oleo tax" over the Wisconsin State Fair on Governor's Day. |
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