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| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | A classic Orson Welles publicity still showing him looking intensely into the camera while gesturing with his hands. |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Baby Rose Marie is shown singing at an NBC radio microphone. This is seen in the National Union Radio Corporation publicity booklet "Radio Stars of Today." |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Business card of Edward Rohloff, a traveling salesman for Willson's Monarch Laboratory, a manufacturer of patent medications in the early part of the 1900s... |
| Date: | 03 24 1933 |
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| Description: | Bobbie Thorpe is sitting in "Madison's smallest real car, a National Junior Racer" to be given away to the child with the most "votes." Votes can be obtain... |
| 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: | 08 21 1964 |
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| Description: | Press release photograph of a model posing with International's Red Carpet Series Scout pickup. Original caption reads: "The Red Carpet Series Scout has be... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Actor John Wayne standing next to an International 1000B truck. He may be on the set of a production titled "Hellfighters." |
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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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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 11 06 1941 |
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| Description: | King Tarz, The Seasonal Jungle Actor, (a lion) was brought to Madison to publicize "Tarzan's Secret Treasure" which stars Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sul... |
| Date: | 08 30 1954 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 11 08 1954 |
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| Description: | For a publicity photograph on the day the Senate censure proceedings began, Joseph R. McCarthy and Mrs. McCarthy posed for this photograph of him reading w... |
| Date: | 05 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising for a Tom Jones concert, featuring Tom Jones, Pat Henry, The Blossoms, and Jeff Slurges Universe, at the Dane County Coliseum, June 6, 1... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | A woman in a dress, heels, apron, and pearls poses next to an open International Harvester freezer. The freezer, a unit with the lid on top, is full of foo... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | Publicity portrait of journalists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak taken outside the White House. Their long-running newspaper column was entitled Inside ... |
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| Description: | Pianist Ellsworth Snyder posing in front of posters advertising his concerts. |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Full-length publicity portrait of Valeska Suratt wearing a white fur suit, hat, and muffler as she sits on a black bear rug. |
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