Photograph
Portrait of Pauline L'Allemand
![Head and shoulders portrait from right side, with head turned partially forward but not looking directly at viewer. She has long hair gathered at neck and wears a large corsage and theatrical make-up. Image is cut to oval with handwriting in blue ink around perimeter: "To things immortal time can do no wrong, and that which never is too <i>[sic]</i> die - forever must be young. Berlin '78."](http://images.wisconsinhistory.org/700005010003/0501000040-l.jpg "Portrait of Pauline L'Allemand")
| Head and shoulders portrait from right side, with head turned partially forward but not looking directly at viewer. She has long hair gathered at neck and wears a large corsage and theatrical make-up. Image is cut to oval with handwriting in blue ink around perimeter: "To things immortal time can do no wrong, and that which never is too [sic] die - forever must be young. Berlin '78." |
| Image ID: | 29162 |
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| Creation Date: | circa 1891 |
| Creator Name: | Unknown |
| City: | Black River Falls |
| County: | Jackson |
| State: | Wisconsin |
| Collection Name: | Charles Van Schaick photographs and negatives, circa 1880-circa 1940 |
| Genre: | Photograph |
| Original Format Type: | photographic print, b&w |
| Original Format Number: | PH 2953 |
| Original Dimensions: | 4.25 x 5.625 inches |
| Miss L'Allemand was a famous operatic singer in Europe who dreamed of having her own touring company and producing an opera she had written. After going broke in Milwaukee, she attempted to settle in Black River Falls, Wisconsin, with her grown son. They lived a life of poverty, and were eventually pronounced insane and remanded to the Mendota State Hospital for the insane in Madison, Wisconsin in 1920. Appears in the book Wisconsin Death Trip, by Michael Lesy. |
| Flower arrangement |
| Clothing and dress |
| Fashion |
| Hairstyles |
| Indoor photography |
| Portrait photography |
| Women |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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