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Ziegfield Follies

Date: 1912
Description: Bert Williams (right) and Leon Errol (left) are a cabbie and his fare from the 1912 Ziegfield Follies. The cab is drawn by a rumpled pantomime horse. Behin...
Photograph

Mr. and Mrs. Trimpey

Date: 1912
Description: The photographer, Ephraim Burt Trimpey, and his wife, Alice Kent Trimpey, seated at a table with a tea kettle on a stand, cups and saucers. Both wear vinta...
Postcard

A Merry Christmas to All

Date: 1912
Description: Holiday postcard of Santa Claus inside of an upside down horseshoe. He has his finger alongside his nose and is wearing a red suit and hat with blue trim. ...
Print

Plan a Paid-For Christmas, Join the Christmas Club

Date: 1912
Description: Die cut holiday card in the shape of a bell with a string attached at top as an advertisement for the Bank of Madison to "Join the Christmas Club" so you c...
Photograph

Dorothy Jardon in "A Winsome Widow"

Date: 1912
Description: Dorothy Jardon in a large hat and beaded dress in a publicity photograph for "A Winsome Widow," a musical comedy that played at the Ziegfeld Moulin Rouge.
Photograph

Dorothy Jardon in "A Winsome Widow"

Date: 1912
Description: Dorothy Jardon wears chic black satin mourning clothes and carries a black parasol in a publicity photograph for "A Winsome Widow," a musical comedy that p...
Poster

Poster for "Don't Lie to Your Wife"

Date: 1912
Description: Color lithograph. The top banner reads: "C.S. Primrose presents the musical comedy farce 'Don't Lie to Your Wife'." Below this, upper right, is the author'...
Photograph

William Clifford and Ethel Grandin in "Across the Plains"

Date: 1912
Description: William Clifford and Ethel Grandin in 1860s or 1870s period costume. They are apparently being guarded by two U.S. Army soldiers in this scene still for "A...
Photograph

Ethel Grandin and Others in "Across the Plains"

Date: 1912
Description: Three or more pioneer women and an older man in buckskin look in horror at a threat--indians?--that is beyond the frame of the photograph in this scene sti...
Photograph

Publicity Still of Anita Stewart

Date: 1912
Description: Anita Stewart wears a dress made of burlap playing Olympia in the Vitagraph production "The Wood Violet" (1912).
Photograph

Scene Still with Florence Lawrence

Date: 1912
Description: In this scene still four men in Renaissance costume fight with swords while two women watch. The actress in the foreground is Florence Lawrence.
Photograph

Wallace Reid in a publicty still for a western.

Date: 1912
Description: In this publicity still for the silent western "At Cripple Creek," Wallace Reid is in costume for the role of Joe Mayfield. He wears a bandanna for a tie, ...
Photograph

Neillsville High School Senior Class Play

Date: 1912
Description: Group portrait of seven young men and three young women, in costume and seated or standing around a couch. Caption reads: "Augusta Masie Breed. Senior Clas...
Photograph

Neillsville High School Senior Class Play

Date: 1912
Description: Posed scene from a play. A man kneels and reaches out to a woman, who is turned away but looking back at him. Another actress is dressed as a young child, ...

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