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Abraham Lincoln Portrait and Impersonator

Date: 10 28 1931
Description: Abraham Lincoln impersonator, Charles E. Bull, of Hollywood, California, and Jesse S. Meyers, commander of the Madison G.A.R. post, stand in front of a por...
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Dane County Theater Group Champions

Date: 02 01 1930
Description: Group portrait of Dane county theater group champions on stage holding a painting.
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Crater Players

Date: 06 25 1948
Description: Crater Players on stage rehearsing for the play, "The Drunkard". Left to right are: organizer Professor Ronald E. Mitchell, Olaf Ussing, Josephine Bomgardn...
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Crater Players

Date: 06 25 1948
Description: Professor Ronald E. Mitchell's Crater Players. Left to right are: Muriel Berkson, Edwin Morgan, Clifford Owen and Josephine Bomgardner rehearsing on stage.
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Richard Barthelmess as a Boy

Date: 1906
Description: Richard Barthelmess, the future actor, is about 12-years-old in this studio portrait. He is dressed as a soldier, probably one of Teddy Roosevelt's Rough R...
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Portrait of John Gilbert

Date: 1918
Description: Quarter-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of actor John Gilbert wearing a tuxedo.
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Wharburton Gamble, Elaine Amazar, and Henry Clive in a scene still.

Date: 1919
Description: This scene still for "As a Man Thinks" is set in an artist's studio in Paris. On the left wearing a painting smock and floppy tie is the artist Benjamin De...
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Women in Costume

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a woman posing sitting on the left wearing a false moustache, uniform jacket and hat, and a woman wearing...
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Four Couples on the Stage of the Opera House

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Description: Slightly elevated view of four couples, dressed in late eighteenth century costumes, on the stage of the Fuller Opera House. They are posing as if they are...
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Clara Kimball Young in "The Common Law"

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Description: Valerie West (Clara Kimball Young) posing nude for Neville (Conway Tearle) in the 1916 film "The Common Law." Neville is standing on a platform in front of...

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