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Cheese Poster

Date: 09 05 1940
Description: Cheese advertising poster - Woman holding cheese platter and the words "Say Merry Christmas with Aged Select Natural Wisconsin Cheese in gift packs $1.00 p...
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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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Safety League Mystery Ship

Date: 07 18 1935
Description: A man spinning the propeller with Frank A. Sloan in the pilot seat and a women is sitting in the back of a car that looks like an airplane. They are at a G...
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Sportsman's Paradise Billboard

Date: 05 07 1935
Description: Four men are looking on during installation of a billboard designed by Hinkson Advertising Agency, at the corner of S. Park Street and Olin Avenue. The sig...
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Chevrolet #10,000,021

Date: 11 23 1934
Description: Wisconsin Chevrolet officials celebrating a milestone in company history, the 23rd anniversary of the company. On that anniversary date this car was built ...
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"Madame White" Cosmetics Car and Employees

Date: 08 17 1934
Description: Group portrait of "Madame White" cosmetics sales staff with car and signage for an event at the Capitol Theatre with Richard Barthelmess in "Midnight Alibi...
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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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Fauerbach Brewing Co. Float

Date: 07 27 1934
Description: An automobile covered in crepe paper with a beer bottle on the front end, and a sign on the top serves as the Fauerbach Brewing Co. float. It was built to ...
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Nu-Enamel Paint Promotion

Date: 05 14 1934
Description: Man standing next to an automobile outfitted with signs advertising Nu-Enamel paint.
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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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Men in front of Grand Army Hall

Date: 10 13 1933
Description: Six men with a flag in front of Grand Army Hall, 118 Monona Avenue, (Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard). Taken as publicity for the motion picture "Forgott...
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Automobile Stunt

Date: 08 04 1933
Description: Arthur Santell is pulling three Pontiac automobiles, each with a man on the running board, with his teeth in front of General Auto Service and Henry Motor ...
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"Lux" Girls

Date: 07 24 1933
Description: Group portrait of women posing for a Lux soap publicity drive on the steps in front of the Clarridge Apartments.
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Harold Knudsen on a Mini Car

Date: 06 22 1933
Description: Harold Knudsen sitting on the National Junior Racer outside the Capitol Theatre, the prize for a contest conducted by the Fiore Coal and Oil Co., Phillips ...
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Bobbie Thorpe in Midget Car

Date: 03 24 1933
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...
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RKO Show Advertising

Date: 08 13 1932
Description: "RKO Greater Show Season" promotional truck with calliope, and signs advertising Raquel Torres in Fanchon and Marco's "Malibu Beach" and Jack Holt and Ralp...
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Calliope Truck Leading a Parade

Date: 08 13 1932
Description: A "RKO Greater Show Season" truck with signs promoting a show at the RKO Orpheum Theatre, a calliope and two men sitting on top, leading a parade of automo...
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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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Olsen & Johnson Promoting their Show

Date: 04 16 1932
Description: Surrounded by onlookers, Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are riding in a wire cage on the back of a "Federal" brand truck. The truck is on the bed of another "F...
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Olsen & Johnson Milking Cows

Date: 04 16 1932
Description: Ole Olson and Chic Johnson milking cows in front of the Orpheum, 216 State Street, promoting their show "Atrocities of 1932" at the Orpheum.

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