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| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Alice in Dairyland, Marjean Czerwinski, wearing her crown and gown, rides on the back of a Harley-Davidson motorcycle. |
| Date: | 08 08 1931 |
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| Description: | Queen contestant at the Disabled American Veterans Ball, standing and posing with a flag. |
| Date: | 10 06 1930 |
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| Description: | Miss America, Margaret Ekdahl, models a Shirley Lea red dress and black vest at the Burdick & Murray Department Store. |
| Date: | 10 06 1930 |
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| Description: | Miss America, Margaret Ekdahl, models Peacock brand pumps (shoes) at the Burdick & Murray Department Store. |
| Date: | 10 06 1930 |
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| Description: | Miss America, Margaret Ekdahl, models a blue and rose Moire evening gown with a short white Dolman fur wrap, at the Burdick & Murray Department Store. |
| Date: | 10 06 1930 |
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| Description: | Miss America, Margaret Ekdahl, standing in the Burdick & Murray department store modeling black pumps (shoes). Women are sitting in chairs behind her on th... |
| Date: | 08 16 1949 |
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| Description: | Luanne Unbehaun of Richland Center is shown modeling the new clothes she selected at Baron's Department Store, 14-18 West Mifflin Street, as her gift for b... |
| Date: | 12 03 1949 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Audrey Connell, Waukesha, a member of Delta Gamma sorority crowned as the Sweetheart of Sigma Chi. |
| Date: | 02 18 1952 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin Prom Queen contest finalist Nancy Smith is shown wearing a bathing suit, and transparent rain coat, and holding an umbrella to port... |
| Date: | 07 21 1953 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 05 14 1954 |
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| Description: | Alice in Dairyland (left) sits at a table with a group of men during a luncheon for Madison's Dairy Foods Festival. |
| Date: | 05 11 1954 |
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| Description: | Alice in Dairyland and an unidentified man toast glasses of chocolate milk while seated in a luncheon booth at Rennobahm's drug store. An advertising poste... |
| Date: | 02 1964 |
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| Description: | Portrait of University of Wisconsin student Abbie DeBuhr, winner of the 1964 Miss Madison contest. |
| Date: | 08 23 1997 |
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| Description: | Alice in Dairyland, Courtney Ott, wearing a crown and a sash, is sitting on the back of a motorcycle driven by Governor Tommy Thompson at the start of the ... |
| Date: | 10 22 1957 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Marilyn Elaine Van Derbur, the crowned Miss America for 1958, as she visited Madison on her tour of the country. |
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