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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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Space Inc. House

Date: 06 06 1950
Description: Advertising photograph for a housing contractor company called Space Inc. Pictured is a house at 3903 Nicholas Road built by Space Inc. contractor Ivan D. ...
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Rat Trap Advertisement

Date: 10 31 1951
Description: A masked negative showing a rat trap, Kelly's "JUNIOR" RAT CAFETERIA, by the Solvit Chemical Company of Madison.
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Dairy Case Display

Date: 06 09 1953
Description: A four-level glass refrigerated display case filled with various dairy products is shown at a Piggly Wiggly store at 2701 Monroe Street. The photograph was...
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Elsie, the Borden Company Cow

Date: 07 21 1953
Description: Portrait of Mary Ellen Jenks, the new Alice in Dairyland welcoming Elsie, the famed Borden Company cow to Madison. Elsie is wearing a heavily decorated lea...
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Elsie, the Borden Co. Cow

Date: 07 21 1953
Description: Elsie, the Borden Co. cow with Gov. Walter Kohler, acting mayor Carl Wilhelm, Alice in Dairyland Mary Ellen Jenks and another man. They are posing together...
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East Shopping Center Grand Opening

Date: 10 01 1953
Description: The parking lot is filled with vehicles as the Madison East Shopping Center grand opening draws thousands of people to view the twelve-store shopping cente...
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Madison Advertising Club Essay Contest Winners

Date: 03 25 1954
Description: Group portrait of the Madison Advertising Club Essay Contest winners. Cynthia Curreri (first place) is standing and Gretchen Usher, Barbara Nemetz and Bonn...
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Car Slogan Contest Winners

Date: 02 01 1957
Description: Five adults and three children posing in front of a prize new 1957 Chevorlet. On the left is Warner Young, chairman of the Madison Automobile Dealers Assoc...
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Harold Van Gordon, Paint Department Manager

Date: 09 28 1957
Description: Harold Van Gordon, manager of the paint department, poses by the paint brush display in the paint department at C & P Shopping Center at 3830 Atwood Avenue...
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Governor Proclaims 'Dress Right Week'

Date: 03 10 1958
Description: Governor Vernon W. Thomson (left) trying on a new suit, as four men representing four men's clothing stores, all located on the Capitol Square, are looking...
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Bryko Liquid Cleaner Container Boxes

Date: 06 24 1959
Description: Two men pose by a wall of highly stacked boxes, each marked with a large "BK" logo. One of the men holds a pen and is bent over a notebook.
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Margaret McGuire Promoting Cheese

Date: 1952
Description: Margaret McGuire, the 1948 Alice in Dairyland, on WAFM-TV, Channel 13, with another woman promoting Wisconsin Cheese.
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Margaret McGuire Offering Cheese to Young Boy

Date: 1952
Description: Margaret McGuire, the 1948 Alice in Dairyland, offering Wisconsin Cheese to a young boy seated in a boat-shaped display of "Swift's Brookfield Fine Cheese....
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Launch of "This is Wisconsin" Booklet-State Map Surrounded by Wisconsin Grown Foods

Date: 03 29 1954
Description: Food from every food-producing county in the state and seventy-one candles - one for each county - frames a 25-foot long map of Wisconsin at the preview ev...
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Paul Jones Liquor Display

Date: 07 1955
Description: Hy Novis (?) holding a bottle by a Paul Jones liquor display.
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Rexall Christmas in June

Date: 06 04 1959
Description: A man in a pharmacist smock is examining a large toy as two other men are looking on. They are at the Hotel Loraine at a merchandise display for all mercha...
Postcard

The Friendly Buckhorn

Date: 1950
Description: Text on front reads: "The 'Friendly Buckhorn,' Rice Lake, Wisconsin". Text on reverse reads: "No vacation trip to Northern Wisconsin is complete without a ...
Postcard

The Friendly Buckhorn

Date: 1950
Description: Text on front reads: "The 'Friendly Buckhorn,' Rice Lake, Wisconsin." Text on reverse reads: "No vacation trip to Northern Wisconsin is complete without a ...
Postcard

The Friendly Buckhorn

Date: 1950
Description: Text on front reads: "The 'Friendly Buckhorn,' Rice Lake, Wisconsin." Text on the reverse reads: "No vacation trip to Northern Wisconsin is complete withou...

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