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| Date: | 06 07 1948 |
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| Description: | Governor Rennebohm placing a wreath of red roses on the head of Highland's Margaret McGuire, who was selected as Wisconsin's first Alice in Dairyland. Marg... |
| Date: | 06 07 1948 |
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| Description: | Newly crowned Alice in Dairyland, Margaret McGuire, and governor Oscar Rennebohm shown with Highland's oldest resident, 93-year old Chris Blabaum at Highla... |
| Date: | 06 07 1948 |
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| Description: | Newly selected Alice in Dairyland, Margaret McGuire, receiving an orchid from Virginia Palan, legionnaire and WAVE (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency ... |
| Date: | 06 18 1948 |
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| Description: | John Berge, left, secretary of the Wisconsin alumni association, presents the gold headed cane to E.E. Brossard, right, age 85, Class 1888, state reviser o... |
| Date: | 07 18 1948 |
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| Description: | Bishop William P. O'Connor, in vestments, turning the first shovel of dirt for the building that will contain the parish auditorium and six classrooms on t... |
| Date: | 03 13 1947 |
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| Description: | Governor Oscar Rennebohm is administered the oath of office as his wife and daughter look on. |
| Date: | 05 26 1909 |
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| Description: | The unveiling of the Abraham Lincoln Statue in front of the Gilbert Simmons Memorial Library. |
| Date: | 08 02 1948 |
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| Description: | Scene in the cemetery near Martinsville during the internment of Lucille Ballweg, victim of a tornado. |
| Date: | 08 03 1948 |
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| Description: | Margaret McGuire, Alice in Dairyland, at left, christens the "Northliner Alice in Dairyland" with a bottle of milk at the Madison municipal airport, with N... |
| Date: | 08 23 1948 |
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| Description: | City manager Leonard G. Howell, breaking the ground with a shovel, at the ground-breaking ceremony for the new Naval Reserve training center in Kendall Fie... |
| Date: | 07 06 1937 |
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| Description: | Dedication ceremony for the dam on the St. Croix River that is now part of the Gordon Dam County Park. Construction on this dam was begun as a WPA project... |
| Date: | 11 08 1948 |
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| Description: | Madison City Manager Leonard G. Howell signing a proclamation designating Nov. 7-13 as Optimist Week in Madison. Looking on, left to right, are: Charles Th... |
| Date: | 11 11 1948 |
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| Description: | Color bearers from the National Guard, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the two American Legion posts, the Spanish-American War veterans, their auxiliaries, a... |
| Date: | 11 11 1948 |
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| Description: | Robert Babcock, Lodi, places the American Legion auxiliary post Number 57 memorial wreath at the front of the memorial obelisk on the grounds of the Wiscon... |
| Date: | 11 15 1948 |
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| Description: | Eleven former members of Brownie Scout Troop 64 participating in a "fly-up ceremony in Glenwood Park where they became full-fledged Girl Scouts. Mrs. Glen ... |
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| Description: | Diorama of Aztec sacrificial rites at the Milwaukee Public Museum. Two men are holding the man to be sacrificed in a splayed position while a third man sta... |
| Date: | 12 03 1948 |
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| Description: | "Mrs. Louise Watson, patriotic instructor of the Lucius Fairchild Women's Relief Corps, is shown as she presented an American flag to Girl Scout Troop 115 ... |
| Date: | 1855 |
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| Description: | An illustration of an Indian prophet standing by his lodge, which has symbols drawn on and floating above it. Others are seated, watching him. Two persons ... |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Hanukkah program at the synagogue. Edward, son of Holocaust Survivor Eva Lauffer Deutschkron, is standing in back row, third from right. |
| Date: | 05 1959 |
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| Description: | Martin Deutschkron (husband of Eva Lauffer Deutschkron), lighting candles at son Edward's Bar Mitzvah; Temple Beth El. |
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