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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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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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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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Florence Lawrence Demonstrates Emotions

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Description: Series of eight head and shoulders portraits of Florence Lawrence using facial expressions to depict hilarity, piety, concentration, horror, determination,...
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Bear Cubs

Date: 05 1942
Description: An unidentified woman and a man are tending to two small bear cubs that are wearing harnesses, at the counter of a display in the All-Wisconsin Outdoor Sho...
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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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Harry Morey Pennant

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Description: Brown felt pennant featuring a photograph of silent film actor Harry Morey. The small photograph shows Morey wearing a hat and holding a cigar in his hand ...

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