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Madison Theater Guild Cast

Date: 03 20 1947
Description: Madison Theater Guild cast members for "Mr. and Mrs. North" are, left to right, Paul Hunter, Jr., Rachel Steensland, Junius Eddy, Gardenia Kross, and Glenn...
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Alex Haley and Kunte Kinte's Grave

Date: 1978
Description: Author Alex Haley and actor LeVar Burton visit the grave of Haley's ancestor, the slave Kunte Kinte, in Spottsylvania County, Virginia. In the television ...
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Still of "Roots" Mini-Series

Date: 1976
Description: Scene from the popular television mini-series "Roots," showing actor LeVar Burton in chains portraying the slave Kunte Kinte, who had recently arrived on a...
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Still from "Roots" Television Mini-Series

Date: 1976
Description: Actors Ben Vereen (left), as Chicken George, and Georg Stanford Brown as Tom, in a television still from the popular 1977 television mini-series "Roots". T...
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East High School Play Cast

Date: 03 20 1947
Description: A scene from "The Forest Princ,e, an operetta set in 16th century Russia, which was presented by the East High School a cappella choir and the concert orch...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Underground Newspaper Cover: Dallas News

Date: 07 1971
Description: Cover of "Dallas News," an underground newspaper, featuring a photograph of Groucho Marx and a woman, with the headline, "Groucho calls for Nixon's Assassi...
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"Our Daily Bread" Movie Still

Date: 08 16 1929
Description: A woman, possibly actress Mary Duncan, sits behind the wheel of a McCormick-Deering tractor while a man stands beside her on the set of the Fox Film produc...
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High School Students Centennial Play

Date: 05 26 1948
Description: High school students who took part in the Centennial play, "The Thirtieth Star," at West High school recently are: in front, Gene Coffman; in the second ro...
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Daniel Travanti

Date: 05 1986
Description: Daniel J. Travanti in the lobby of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Daniel J. Travanti was a lead actor in the television weekly series "Hill Str...
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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 at Blue Mounds

Date: 06 25 1948
Description: Performers Olaf Ussing, leaning on a cane, and Carole Branley rehearsing for the presentation of "The Drunkard", a Crater Players production. They are in f...
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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.
Poster

"Easy Rider" Movie Poster

Date: 02 1971
Description: Poster advertising for a screening of "Easy Rider" at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Wisconsin Union Theater, Tuesday, February 9, 1971, depicting Pet...
Poster

"A Midsummer Night's Dream" Poster

Date: 04 1971
Description: Poster announcing a performance of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," at Broom Street Theater in Madison, Wisconsin. Performed by the Broom Street ...
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Performers in "The Singing Kid"

Date: 1936
Description: Seven chorus girls from "The Singing Kid" surround Al Jolson.
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Sorority Alumnae Play Cast

Date: 12 06 1948
Description: Two alumnae members of the Madison chapter of Phi Beta, speech and music sorority, rehearsing for their part in the "Old English Revels" for members and th...
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Edgewood High School Christmas Play

Date: 12 07 1948
Description: Three high school students dressed as Joseph, Mary and the Angel Gabriel, rehearsing for a Christmas play to be presented at the Edgewood High School audit...
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"Citizen Kane"

Date: 1941
Description: Orson Welles on podium in front of giant 'Kane' backdrop, in scene still for "Citizen Kane".
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"Romance of the Reaper" Film Still

Date: 1929
Description: Scene from the film "Romance of the Reaper" showing the building of the first practical reaper on the McCormick farm in Virginia. Actors playing the parts ...
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Madison Theater Guild's "The Hasty Heart"

Date: 02 01 1949
Description: Actress Marilyn Eddy taking a group portrait of other cast members of Madison Theater Guild's production of "The Hasty Heart."

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