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| Date: | 08 29 1926 |
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| Description: | L.L. Olds Seed Company display booth of flowers and seeds at Wisconsin State Fair. |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Entries in the Lewis Baking Contest. Seven tables full of plates of desserts are displayed in a large room. |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Walworth Fairest of the Fair, Governor Knowles and the Wisconsin Honey Queen all holding a bottle of honey at the Walworth County Fair. |
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| Description: | Miniature Lincoln Monument made out of beeswax at the Illinois State Fair. In the background are displays of frames of honeycomb, with ribbons hanging from... |
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| Description: | Alice in Dairyland and the Wisconsin Honey Queen standing at a Wisconsin State Beekeepers Association stand, possibly at the Wisconsin State Fair. |
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| Description: | A table display of honey, honeycomb, and honey sweetened desserts. The display is centered around a figurine of a woman holding ribbons, which extend to th... |
| Date: | 1971 |
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| Description: | August Laechelt (La Valle, Wisconsin) and the Minnesota State Honey Queen at the Minnesota State Fair. The Honey Queen is wearing a sash and tiara. Behind ... |
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| Description: | Cover of a pamphlet advertising Walter Hagen Honey Center Golf Balls. Titled "Bees Buzz into Big Business." Printed in black, yellow, and white with illust... |
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| Description: | Pages 4 and 5 of Walter Hagen Honey Center Golf Balls Pamphlet. Drawings of Hagen golf balls, one intact and one showing honey inside with bees surrounding... |
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| Description: | A group of young men seated on the ground, having a picnic. A can of honey, salmon, and bread are visible on the ground. Two of the men have metal dots on ... |
| Date: | 05 17 1950 |
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| Description: | Twenty-three men, participants at the Ygdrssil Literary Society's Syttende Mai golf tournament and dinner, posing between an American flag and a Norwegian ... |
| 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: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the Orioles, members of a club for ten-year-old girls at Neighborhood House. A former worker at the settlement house then working in a ho... |
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| Description: | Page 8 and inside back cover from Walter Hagen Honey Center Golf Balls Pamphlet. The text is a description of the materials used in the golf balls. Below i... |
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| Description: | Pages 2 and 3 from the Walter Hagen Honey Center Golf Balls Pamphlet. Black and yellow drawings of the tomb of king tut and a vessel of honey, and a man wo... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | A farmer with a long beard and wearing a hat is standing in the foreground in front of a board fence, which is part of an elaborate system of fencing surro... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Three people are posing in the foreground, with a man with a long beard standing in front of two women sitting in a horse-drawn carriage. There is a barn a... |
| Speakers Bureau |
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| Marnie Mamminga is a WHS Press author and a member of the Wisconsin Historical Society Speakers Bureau. |
| Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story |
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| Deer hide jacket of Ruel Garnich Baldwin, c. 1915. (Museum object #2005.147.1) |
| Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story |
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| Barbie doll purchased in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, c. 1961. (Museum object #1972.17.10) |
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