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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A photograph of Fredric March as a child (on the right) performing in a church pageant with another child. |
| Date: | 04 25 1925 |
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| Description: | Ed Wynn is shown in his dressing room applying makeup at the mirror. Reflected in the mirror left to right are Wynn's manager Fred R. Zweifal, Wynn's valet... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "Mae Murray, who just recently completed 'Circe,' as she looked when she appeared on the stage. Miss Murray started her career as a dance... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Cabinet card photograph by Scholl of Philadelphia of the actors Maurice Barrymore and Georgie Drew who married in December 1879. Successful actors, their c... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | An early waist-up publicity portrait of Valeska Suratt sitting on a chair. She wears an intricate lace dress and a large hat covered with feathers. |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Billie Burke raises a glass posed as the servant girl in the operetta The Dutchess of Dantzic which premiered in October 1903 at the Lyric Theatre i... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Billie Burke carries a tea tray as the servant girl in the operetta The Dutchess of Dantzic which premiered in October 1903 at the Lyric Theatre in ... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | The cast members Billie Burke, James Blakeley, and Maude Percival as characters from The School Girl. Billie Burke was a hit when she sang "Put M... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Billie Burke, G.P. Huntley, and Norma Whalley as characters from The School Girl. Billie Burke was a hit when she sang "Put Me in My Little Canoe... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Billie Burke wearing a lovely white dress and large hat decorated with roses in a nearly full length publicity postcard distributed in 1905 for her appeara... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Lenore Ulric draws her bow crouched on a papier-mâché boulder. She starred as Wetona in the 1916 Frohman-Belasco Broadway production The Heart of Wetona... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Broadway star Lenore Ulric, dressed and made-up for the stage, listens to an early portable radio receiver. |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | W.C. Fields in a publicity still from the Broadway show "Poppy". He is seated in an ornate chair and is wearing a top hat, checkered pants and spats. |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Dorothy Jardon in a White Studio publicity photograph for her first Broadway appearance, the musical comedy "The Merry-Go-Round," which opened at the Circl... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | John Belushi performing a scene with Virginia Newcomb from the play Night Must Fall at UW-Whitewater. Newcomb is sitting in a wheelchair and Belushi... |
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