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Orpheum Theatre Projector Operators

Date: 02 25 1939
Description: Group portrait of 10 male projection operators of Orpheum Theater, 216 State Street.
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Golf Stunt

Date: 06 17 1932
Description: Men posing during a golf stunt, as they try to hit a golf ball off a man's nose while he is lying on his back on the floor in the lobby of the Orpheum Thea...
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Audience Members at Lunt-Fontanne Play

Date: 02 20 1949
Description: Left to right are: Professor Andrew T. Weaver, Professor William Kiekhofer, Gladys Kiekhofer, and Cornelia Weaver, audience members at the premiere product...
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Audience Members at Lunt-Fontanne Play

Date: 02 22 1949
Description: Left to right are: Arlie W. Schorger; Mrs. John Greene, sister of Alfred Lunt; Mr. John Greene; and Margaret Schorger; audience members at the premiere per...
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International Students Attend the University of Wisconsin

Date: 07 27 1954
Description: Portrait of Andrew Nahm from Seoul, South Korea. He is studying for his Ph.D. degree in American history and is a teaching assistant in the history departm...
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Youth Summer Theater Alumni

Date: 05 17 1957
Description: Portrait of some of the active alumni of the Youth Summer Theater. Seated in front is Mary Kate Lorenz. Others left to right: David Starkweather (standing,...
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Madison Youth Summer Theater

Date: 08 06 1957
Description: Kathy McCloskey, at the piano, and Andy Rothblatt, with a guitar, rehearse a Civil War ballad for the tenth anniversary celebration of the Madison Youth Su...
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Youth Summer Theatre

Date: 06 17 1957
Description: Waiting to audition for the Youth Summer theater are, left to right: Marian Bennett, Harriet Shands, Dosier Helsabeck and Karen Legg.
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We Saw You . . . at Farm and Home Events

Date: 01 27 1959
Description: Wisconsin farm folks are getting a real education at the annual Farm and Home Week session on the University of Wisconsin campus. Hundreds of women attende...
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We Saw You at Drama Institute

Date: 11 12 1959
Description: Alice Peet, assistant technical director of the Wisconsin Union Theater, talks with Madison West High School pupils attending the Drama Institute. They are...
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Theater Men and Plaque

Date: 05 02 1961
Description: Three men examining a plaque. The original caption states: "F.J. Williams, left, Portage theater owner and longtime Wisconsin showman, receives a plaque co...
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Opening Night of the 47th Annual Haresfoot Show

Date: 04 26 1954
Description: Visiting in the atrium of University of Wisconsin Union Theater prior to the performance of the musical comedy, "Wait and See," are (left to right): Profes...
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Opening Night of the 47th Annual Haresfoot Show

Date: 04 26 1954
Description: Arriving at the atrium of the University of Wisconsin Union Theater prior to the performance of the musical comedy, "Wait and See," are Dr. and Mrs. Eugene...
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Madison Theatre Guild's Tenth Anniversary

Date: 08 1955
Description: Officers of the Madison Theatre Guild frolic around a piano. Al Barraclough, director of the Guild, is sitting at the piano. The others are (left to right)...
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Theaters Collect Money for Polio Fund

Date: 01 31 1958
Description: March of Dimes treasurer, Frank Sackman, holding a check for money collected in four local theaters for the infantile paralysis fund campaign by teenage vo...
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University of Wisconsin Honor's Convocation

Date: 06 07 1959
Description: University of Wisconsin Concert Band director Raymond F. Dvorak directs the band during a rehearsal for the UW Honors Convocation ceremony to be held in th...

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