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Magazine Window Display

Date: 06 29 1946
Description: Window display featuring the July, 1946 issue of Holiday magazine. In this issue is an article called, "Read about Wisconsin's Dairyland" by Phil Dr...
Property Record

1425 E TOWN RD TT

Community: Dairyland
County: Douglas
Historic Name: Radigan Dam
Reference Number: 158941
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Alice at the Great Wisconsin Tailgate

Date: 1998
Description: Courtney Ott, Alice in Dairyland '97, at the Great Wisconsin Tailgate party with actress/comedienne Kathy Griffin. The tailgate party, which was sponsored ...
Property Record

END OF WESTMAN RD 1 MI E OF COUNTY HIGHWAY T

Community: Dairyland
County: Douglas
Historic Name: 
Reference Number: 15906
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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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Margaret McGuire at The Highland Press

Date: 1948
Description: Margaret McGuire, Alice in Dairyland, is perched on a stool watching a typesetter at The Highland Press. He is setting metal type by hand for the we...
Photograph

Alice in Dairyland Parade

Date: 05 31 1963
Description: Caption with photograph reads: "Unidentified youngster at left has his own idea on how a clarinet should be played as band passes his curbside bandstand du...
Property Record

CNR OF W 2ND AVE AND MAIN ST

Community: Sheldon
County: Rusk
Historic Name: FARMERS AND MERCHANTS BANK
Reference Number: 20794
Photograph

Elsie, the Borden Co. Cow

Date: 07 21 1953
Description: Elsie, the Borden Co. cow with Gov. Walter Kohler, acting mayor Carl Wilhelm, Alice in Dairyland Mary Ellen Jenks and another man. They are posing together...
Property Record

DAIRYLAND DR, E SIDE, .25 M N OF COUNTY LINE RD

Community: Centerville
County: Manitowoc
Historic Name: 
Reference Number: 26781
Photograph

Dairy Day at Alpha Gamma Rho Fraternity

Date: 12 02 1958
Description: Barbara Haslow (left), Alice in Dairyland, is the guest of honor at the sixth annual Dairy Day of Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity. With her are fraternity membe...
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Margaret McGuire Promoting Cheese

Date: 1952
Description: Margaret McGuire, the 1948 Alice in Dairyland, on WAFM-TV, Channel 13, with another woman promoting Wisconsin Cheese.
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Elsie, the Borden Company Cow

Date: 07 21 1953
Description: Portrait of Mary Ellen Jenks, the new Alice in Dairyland welcoming Elsie, the famed Borden Company cow to Madison. Elsie is wearing a heavily decorated lea...
Photograph

Margaret McGuire's Roomates

Date: 1948
Description: Margaret McGuire, Alice in Dairyland, (5th from left), with six of her roommates and the House Mother, Ms. Welch, at Whitewater State University. They are ...
Photograph

Boy Throwing Baton

Date: 08 1948
Description: A crowd watches a young man throwing a baton into the air at the Wisconsin Centennial Exposition. Behind him is the "Alice In Dairyland" building, featurin...
Historical Essay

Nuclear Fuel Assembly

Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story
Control rod and replica fuel assembly from Wisconsin's first nuclear power plant. (Museum object 1997.56.13-14)
Photograph

Alice in Dairyland

Date: 08 1948
Description: A woman in a uniform places a lei of orchids around Margaret McGuire's neck as she accepts the role of Centennial Queen on a stage at the Wisconsin Centenn...
Postcard

Wisconsin — America's Dairyland

Date: 1942
Description: A postcard of a drawing depicting a frustrated pilot in a plane trying to land behind a dairy cow. A soldier is pulling and a farmer is pushing to try to g...
Property Record

7957 N DAIRYLAND DR

Community: Mosel
County: Sheboygan
Historic Name: WILHELM AND GUSTINE BAETZ HOUSE
Reference Number: 49656
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Livestock Exposition Judging

Date: 1959
Description: Slightly elevated view of one competitor parading her animal for the judges at the Southern Wisconsin Junior Livestock Competition, while Alice in Dairylan...

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