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Beechnut Gum Girls

Date: 1935
Description: Beechnut Gum girls, posed in front of an automobile, promoting the product for a national advertising campaign.
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Rhythm Girls

Date: 06 25 1932
Description: Fanchon and Mario "Rhythm Girls" posing in front of an A&W Root Beer. They are standing in a line and holding mugs of root beer.
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Corben Christening

Date: 08 12 1932
Description: RKO motion picture actress Raquel Torres christening the new model airplane manufactured in Madison by Orland Corben. Corben had flown the airplane that br...
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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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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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Alice in Dairyland and Dairy Princesses

Date: 1955
Description: The 1955 Alice in Dairyland, Barbara Brown, stands with four Alice Princesses in front of a Wisconsin Department of Agriculture/American Dairy Association ...
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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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Visiting Queens at the Wisconsin State Fair

Date: 1962
Description: Miss Wisconsin 1962, Joan Mary Engh, and Alice in Dairyland 1962-63, Sylvia Lee, enjoy a drink of milk with an elderly gentleman during their visit to the ...
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Baton Twirlers Promote Milk

Date: 08 30 1954
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...
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Woman with 11FC Freezer

Date: 1949
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...
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Academy Award-Winning Butcher

Date: 03 11 1956
Description: Actor Ernest Borgnine, who was nominated for an Academy Award for his role as a butcher in "Marty", reenacted his role for a publicity photograph at a groc...
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National Business Women's Week

Date: 10 05 1953
Description: Joy Morrison poses as a worker in a drugstore during the 1800's. Pharmaceutical items on the wall were used in Wisconsin drugstores during the first 50 yea...
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The Smashing Pumpkins

Date: 10 1996
Description: Publicity photograph of the four band members of The Smashing Pumpkins, a Chicago, Illinois rock band. From left to right are James Iha, Billy Corgan (seat...
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Security State Bank Dairy Month Treats

Date: 06 11 1958
Description: Security State Bank presented children with ice cream cones in recognition of June Dairy Month. Leo Lunenschloss, bank president, is looking on as Sarah Ho...
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Woman Posing with Cheese

Date: 1958
Description: Promotional studio portrait of a woman standing and wearing a striped shirt, short apron, a paper hat and high heels, posing with her chin on her hands on ...
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Alice in Dairyland

Date: 06 21 1976
Description: Group portrait of a woman standing between two men. In the background is a Northwest Airlines airplane. The woman is wearing a crown, and a sash that reads...
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Bear Cubs

Date: 05 1942
Description: An unidentified woman and a man are tending to two small bear cubs that are wearing harnesses, at the counter of a display in the All-Wisconsin Outdoor Sho...

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