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| Date: | 06 30 1950 |
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| Description: | The 1950 Alice in Dairyland, Virgina Ruth Peterson, posed sitting on a fence after she was chosen for the title from a field of 18 in the final judging at ... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | LaVonne Hermann of Mount Horeb, the 1949 Alice in Dairyland, is shown in a formal pose, wearing her crown. |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Elmer, "husband" of Elsie the Cow, advertising mascot of the Borden Company, is shown with a young woman as he was being readied for participation as one o... |
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| Description: | Billy Huber of Reading, PA, dubbed "America's most popular motorcycle competition rider" by the American Motorcycle Association, is shown astride his Harle... |
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| Description: | Bob Stuth, a motorcycle racer from Milwaukee, who competed at the Wisconsin State Fair. He is riding a Harley Davidson cycle and wearing a shirt that adver... |
| 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: | 08 30 1954 |
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| Description: | Governor Walter J. Kohler, Jr., and an unidentified elderly woman, toast each other with paper cups of milk. They are standing near the Department of Agric... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Two young boys and their prize-winning ducks at the 1955 Wisconsin State Fair. |
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| Description: | Race car driver Paul Russo of Kenosha at the Wisconsin State Fair. He raced in 13 Indianapolis 500 races. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A farmer shows off his percheron colt at the Wisconsin State Fair. At the turn of the century when a farmer's livelihood was dependent on his horses, the d... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Freddy Lang of rural Dane County with the Guernsey calf he planned to enter in the Junior Fair competition at the Wisconsin State Fair. |
| Date: | 08 17 1957 |
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| Description: | Fourteen-year-old Dorothy Magarich proudly displays her pie that won a blue ribbon at the Wisconsin State Fair. |
| Date: | 08 1948 |
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| Description: | A man wearing a "Wisconsin Centennial, Milwaukee, August 7-29" t-shirt stands in front of the "Wisconsin At Work" building at the Wisconsin Centennial Expo... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Manitowoc County Honey Queen, Lois Lensmeyer of Whitelaw, Wisconsin. She wears a white dress and is standing and smiling with her Honey Queen sash and crow... |
| Date: | 08 08 1948 |
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| Description: | Margaret McGuire receives a lei made of orchids in a ceremony making her the Queen of the Wisconsin Centennial Exposition at the State Fair. The lei was fl... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Mr. Collis Dell and Mr. Allen of the Brink's Company stand outdoors with the Brink's Express Money Truck. The Brink's streamlined money wagon created so mu... |
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