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Corben Christening

Date: 08 12 1932
Description: RKO motion picture actress Raquel Torres christening the new model airplane manufactured in Madison by Orland Corben. Corben had flown the airplane that br...
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Racing Car at Plymouth Liquors

Date: 06 11 1945
Description: A driver sits in a small promotional race car with a "Calvert Special" logo on its side at Plymouth Liquors, 2717 Atwood Avenue.
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Kennedy-Mansfield Dairy Co. Display

Date: 09 19 1941
Description: Kennedy-Mansfield Dairy Co. booth at the East Side Business Men's Association Fall Festival, featuring a winter display of bears eating ice cream and a dai...
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Demonstration of "Youth Bread"

Date: 06 13 1935
Description: Group of women watching man demonstrate "youth bread" products.
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Kraft Display in Grocery Store

Date: 09 06 1934
Description: Two sales clerks dressed as sailors standing beside the ship S.S. Kraft filled with Kraft and Miracle Whip salad dressing products. The display is in Frank...
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Alex Drives Distributing Co. Booth at ESBMA Festival

Date: 09 10 1929
Description: Alex Drives Distributing Company booth at East Side Business Men's Association (ESBMA) Fall Festival. The booth is featuring Pabst Blue Ribbon beer.
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Alex Drives Distributing Co. Booth at ESBMA Festival

Date: 09 10 1929
Description: Alex Drives Distributing Co. booth at the East Side Business Men's Association (ESBMA) Fall Festival. Featuring Pabst Blue Ribbon beer.
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Cheese-Mobile

Date: 1964
Description: Principals in the "world's largest cheese" promotion, study the artist's sketch of the "Cheese-Mobile" that will send the cheese to the New York World's Fa...
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Smoke Your Own Fish

Date: 09 02 1953
Description: 1952 Alice in Dairyland Beverly Ann Steffen and 1953 Alice in Dairyland Mary Ellen Jenks standing in front of a "Smoke Your Own Fish" stand at the 1953 Wis...
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Little Oscar Shaking Hands with Boy

Date: 02 23 1940
Description: Meinhardt Raabe, dressed as Little Oscar, is sitting in a Speed-o-Racer and shaking hands with Billy Marble. Behind them is the Wienermobile.
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Little Oscar at Oscar Mayer Display

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Description: Meinhardt Raabe, dressed as Little Oscar, is standing behind an Oscar Mayer display counter between two women.
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Little Oscar and Wienermobile Driver

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Description: Meinhardt Raabe, dressed as Little Oscar and wearing a hat that reads "Yellow Band Wieners," is standing in front of the Wienermmobile and holding one side...
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Visiting Queens at the Wisconsin State Fair

Date: 1962
Description: Miss Wisconsin 1962, Joan Mary Engh, and Alice in Dairyland 1962-63, Sylvia Lee, enjoy a drink of milk with an elderly gentleman during their visit to the ...
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Milk Booth at the State Fair

Date: 1950
Description: The Department of Agriculture's "All You Can Drink for Ten Cents" milk booth at the Wisconsin State Fair. On the roof is a cow crafted from a bale of hay. ...
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Dairy Products Exhibit

Date: 08 1948
Description: The Department of Agriculture's Cheese promotion booth at the Wisconsin Centennial Exposition. The booth urges consumers to "Serve Wisconsin Dated Cheese."...
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Milk House Customers

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Description: At the Department of Agriculture's Milk House at the Wisconsin State Fair, an elderly woman, Mrs. Shimmon of Milwaukee, and a young man drink milk from pap...
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Baton Twirlers Promote Milk

Date: 08 30 1954
Description: Near the Department of Agriculture's Milk House, two baton twirlers in an obvious promotion photograph sit on top of a car and raise their paper cups of mi...
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Governor Kohler and Milk Toast

Date: 08 30 1954
Description: Governor Walter J. Kohler, Jr., and an unidentified elderly woman, toast each other with paper cups of milk. They are standing near the Department of Agric...
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Meat: Man's Favorite Food

Date: 08 1946
Description: Fairgoers examine exhibits about meat, "Man's Favorite Food," sponsored by the National Livestock and Meat Board at the Wisconsin State Fair.
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More Wisconsin Butter

Date: 1936
Description: Brochure produced by the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture and Markets to encourage the consumption of Wisconsin butter.

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