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Beechnut Gum Girls

Date: 1935
Description: Beechnut Gum girls, posed in front of an automobile, promoting the product for a national advertising campaign.
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Buster Keaton and Seneca Grape Juice Executive

Date: 1965
Description: Buster Keaton (right) appraises a costume for a Seneca Grape Juice TV commercial with J. Wolcott, the company's Vice President.
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Alice in Dairyland, Mary Ellen Jenks

Date: 08 22 1953
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.
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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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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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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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Meinhardt Raabe as Little Oscar with Wienermobile

Date: 07 01 1955
Description: Meinhardt Raabe, dressed as Little Oscar, receiving the key to the city of Wisconsin Dells, while standing in front of the Wienermobile. Written on the key...
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Santa Hands out Candy after Parade

Date: 11 27 1948
Description: Santa Claus is handing out candy and popcorn at the Community Center to children and their parents after the Santa Parade sponsored by the Madison Business...
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Two Men in Costume

Date: 08 15 1942
Description: Two men wearing costumes as a part of a Civilian Defense Rally. The man on the left is wearing a straw hat, seersucker jacket, corsage, with a cane hanging...
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Group Picture: Frat Party

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Description: A fraternity party photographed for Smiles Magazine. Harold Gauer and Alice Bedard sit on a couch while Robert bloch pours a drink for Angie Vail.
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Victor Ehr and Robert Vail

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Description: Amusing photograph taken to be sold to Smiles magazine. Ehr is selling Vail a bottle marked, "Skull Oil."
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Comic Portrait of Ed Sachs, Harold Gauer, and D. Reid Ross

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Description: Humorous picture of the "Joe Must Go" group in funny outfits sitting on a stairway. The "Joe Must Go" group was trying to get enough signatures to get Joe ...
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Senator Wiley and World's Largest Cheese

Date: 02 10 1956
Description: Senator Wiley and Mrs. John Nance Garner, wife of the Vice President, stand on either side of a woman holding a basket and sitting on the world's largest c...
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Frauleins at Oktoberfest

Date: 10 2007
Description: Two women (Frauleins) in costume posing for a picture at Oktoberfest.
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Christmas Greetings

Date: 1914
Description: Holiday card of a boy carrying a plum pudding topped with holly. He is dressed in a red, green and white medieval style costume. His hat is grey with a plu...
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Holiday Greetings

Date: 1929
Description: A combined holiday card and birth announcement with Santa Claus and a stork holding a banner between them that says "Holiday Greetings from the Knowltons i...
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Santa Claus with Candy Cane

Date: 1962
Description: Holiday card with Santa Claus holding a candy cane, surrounded by many symbols of the season: angels, stars, candles, birds, stockings, ornaments, gifts, b...
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Mabel Normand in "Peck's Bad Girl"

Date: 1918
Description: Minnie Penelope Peck (played by Mabel Normand) stands in the village street wearing a wooden barrel over the middle of her gingham dress. (Goldwyn 1918)
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Jackie Coogan in "Peck's Bad Boy"

Date: 1921
Description: Henry Peck, the "bad boy" played by Jackie Coogan, is caught with his hand in the apple barrel by a police officer in this scene still from the silent film...

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