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Battling Butler Lobby Display

Date: 1926
Description: A boxing ring lobby display at the Empire Theatre for Battling Butler with Buster Keaton. The lobby cards read, "It's a knockout. Buster Keaton in '...
Painting

Solomon Levitan

Date: 1926
Description: Three-quarter length portrait of Solomon Levitan.
Poster

Advertising Poster for International Harvester Films

Date: 1926
Description: Advertising poster for motion pictures [movies] shown "free to farmers and their families." Bears the text: "A Visit to a Modern Tractor Plant; The Making ...
Photograph

Interior of Grace Episcopal Church

Date: 1926
Description: Interior of Grace Episcopal Church.
Photograph

Glee Club

Date: 1926
Description: Wisconsin High School men's glee club, University of Wisconsin.
Photograph

Wilson Theater

Date: 1926
Description: Exterior view of Wilson Theater. Standing on sidewalk from left to right are: Delia Berry Wilson, Orpha Wilson, Robert Paul Hollis, and Robert Henry Wilson...
Photograph

The Milwaukee Journal Building Interior

Date: 1926
Description: Building completed around 1926-27. Interior view of a desk area which runs along the right wall, with wood paneling on the desks and columns. Two tall wri...
Photograph

The Milwaukee Journal Building Exterior

Date: 1926
Description: Building completed about 1926-27. Corner view with parked cars lining the street. A flag is flying from the roof. A decorative band of a classical relief l...
Photograph

Agricultural Hall

Date: 1926
Description: View framed by trees from mall of the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Agriculture. An automobile is parked in the drive.
Photograph

Bascom Hall

Date: 1926
Description: Side view from the south of Bascom Hall (formerly Main Hall) on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The Lincoln Monument on top of Bascom Hill can ...
Photograph

Lincoln Monument

Date: 1926
Description: Lincoln Monument in front of Bascom Hall on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. A stone bench, plantings and walkway surround the back of the monum...
Photograph

Lincoln Monument

Date: 1926
Description: Lincoln Monument in front of Bascom Hall on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. A stone bench curves around the statue, which sits in a paved walk ...
Photograph

Studio Portrait of a Ho-Chunk Man Wearing Winter Clothing

Date: 1926
Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a Ho-Chunk man posing sitting and wearing a heavy winter suit coat, scarf, and hat. The Ho-Chunk powwow g...
Photograph

Portrait of Rudolph Valentino from The Son of the Sheik

Date: 1926
Description: Rudolph Valentino stands with his hands on his hips and wears a white turban in a publicity still from The Son of the Sheik (UA, 1926).
Photograph

Rudolph Valentino, Pola Negri, Mae Murray, and Prince David Mdivani

Date: 1926
Description: Full-length portrait of two couples, Rudolph Valentino with Pola Negri, and Mae Murray with Prince David Mdivani, apparently taken the day of Murray and Md...
Photograph

Mr. & Mrs. Houdini

Date: 1926
Description: Harry and Bess (Beatrice) Houdini in formal attire, the year of his death from acute appendicitis.
Photograph

Street Scene

Date: 1926
Description: View down middle of Main Street from the intersection at Deerfield Street. There are shops on both sides of the street. Two automobiles are coming down the...
Photograph

Liberty Norwegian Lutheran Congregation

Date: 1926
Description: Exterior view from road of the Liberty Norwegian Lutheran Congregation.
Photograph

The Gladstone Hotel

Date: 1926
Description: Exterior of the two-story brick Gladstone Hotel. Two cars are parked on the side of the building. An advertisement for the Northern Wisconsin State Fair in...
Photograph

John Gilbert and Ramon Novarro

Date: 1926
Description: Actors John Gilbert and Ramon Novarro compare their moustaches. Gilbert is in costume.

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