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"Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye"

Date: 1950
Description: Scene still from "Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye."
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Baby Rose Marie Singing

Date: 1928
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."
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Labor Works For Highway Safety

Date: 1969
Description: Three men, including Governor Patrick J. Lucey, pose in front of a sign that reads: "Labor Works For Highway Safety. Make Labor Day Weekend A Safe, Pleasan...
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Lindbergh before Flight

Date: 1927
Description: Publicist Harry Bruno; B.F. Mahoney, designer of "The Spirit of St. Louis"; an Earl Carroll chorus girl; Charles Lindbergh; and Bruno's partner, Richard Bl...
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A Star Is Born

Date: 05 18 1937
Description: Evelyn Canfield, in Madison General Hospital bed, looks to her newborn baby, David, who won the Orpheum Theatre's fourth anniversary "A Star Is Born" conte...
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World's Fair Beauties

Date: 08 10 1934
Description: Three "most beautiful employees" of the Chicago World's Fair on a publicity tour: Patricia Marquan, Kay Griffith and Dorothy Le Fold.
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Kiddie Camp Display Window

Date: 04 27 1934
Description: Three little girls, members of the Emerson Fresh Air school and the Longfellow Nutrition room, playing with puppies in the Capital Times Kiddie Camp...
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Golf Stunt

Date: 06 17 1932
Description: Men posing during a golf stunt, as they try to hit a golf ball off a man's nose while he is lying on his back on the floor in the lobby of the Orpheum Thea...
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New Ford Car with Six Lido Ladies

Date: 03 31 1932
Description: Six Lido Ladies, an act performing at the Orpheum Theatre, posing with a new Ford V8 car in the lobby of the Orpheum Theatre with a crowd looking on.
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Miss America

Date: 10 06 1930
Description: Miss America, Margaret Ekdahl, models a Shirley Lea red dress and black vest at the Burdick & Murray Department Store.
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Miss America Models Shoes

Date: 10 06 1930
Description: Miss America, Margaret Ekdahl, models Peacock brand pumps (shoes) at the Burdick & Murray Department Store.
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Miss America Models Formal Wear

Date: 10 06 1930
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.
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Jackie Hoo-Ray

Date: 01 12 1928
Description: Jackie Hoo-Ray eating Purity Bread.
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Red Carpet Series Scout

Date: 08 21 1964
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...
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Alice in Dairyland, Margaret McGuire

Date: 1952
Description: Margaret McGuire, named the first Alice in Dairyland in 1948, promotes Wisconsin cheese.
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Giant Man and Meinhardt Raabe

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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 ...
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Little Oscar at Oscar Mayer Display

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Description: Meinhardt Raabe, dressed as Little Oscar, is standing behind an Oscar Mayer display counter between two women.
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"The Cardinals" Barbershop Quartet

Date: 10 06 1949
Description: Publicity portrait of "The Cardinals" barbershop quartet with canes.
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Donald Davidson, Braves PR Director witth Lew Burdette

Date: 04 13 1961
Description: Donald Davidson (left), Director of Public Relations for the Milwaukee Braves, talks with pitcher Lew Burdette at an Elks club dinner.
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Daisy Bates at a Book Promotion

Date: 1962
Description: Daisy Bates speaking with unidentified man wearing eyeglasses. Copies of her memoir "The Long Shadow of Little Rock", and plaques from the NAACP for the ni...

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