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Christopher Columbus Play

Date: 11 28 1933
Description: Four children in costume surround a cardboard cutout of a sailing ship for a play about Christopher Columbus. The play was performed at Longfellow School, ...
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West High School Production "Our Town"

Date: 11 14 1944
Description: West High School student production of "Our Town" showing a family scene at breakfast, left to right: Mary Snee, Virginia Baldwin, Barbara Burrell, and Erw...
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West High School Production of "Our Town"

Date: 11 14 1944
Description: West High School student production of "Our Town" with two actresses and one actor on a ladder. Left to right: Virginia Baldwin, Joel Salter, and Jerry Eri...
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West High School Production "Our Town"

Date: 11 14 1944
Description: West High School student production of "Our Town" during the drug store scene, with Kenneth Paine, druggist, Virginia Baldwin, and Joel Salter.
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Scene from "Romance of the Reaper"

Date: 1929
Description: A production still for the Fox Hearst film "Romance of the Reaper". The film was produced by International Harvester at Walnut Grove to celebrate the Reape...
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East HIgh School Actors

Date: 10 26 1953
Description: Students acting out a scene in East High School's fall play, "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court." Left to right: Mary Levenick, Roger Alexander...
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Madison Theater Guild's "Look Homeward, Angel"

Date: 04 19 1961
Description: Thomas Wolfe's "Look Homeward, Angel" will be the last play of the 1960-61 season of the Madison Theater Guild. From left to right: the older brother Ben ...
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071 - Campers Posing for a Scene in a Dramatic Activity

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Description: Three campers pose for a scene in a dramatic activity. They are dressed in costume. One camper stands, wearing a cape with a hood, gesturing with her left ...
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072 - Paul Bunyan Pageant

Date: 1941
Description: Scene from pageant, with many campers in costume acting out the story of Paul Bunyan. The group is posed sitting and standing outdoors in a sunny, grassy a...
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073 - Cast of Paul Bunyan Pageant

Date: 1941
Description: Group portrait of the cast of the Paul Bunyan pageant. All of the campers are in costume, and are arranged in a semi-circle around some of the implements u...
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099 - Campers Participating in Dramatization

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Description: Page from Joy Camps photo album displaying two photographs; there is an empty space where a third photograph was once included. The top photograph shows a ...
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100 - Scenes from Joy Camps Pageant

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Description: Page from Joy Camps photo album displaying four photographs. Campers are in costume, standing in one photograph and seated in the others. In one photograph...
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101 - Scenes from Historical Pageant

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Description: Page from Joy Camps photo album displaying three photographs. In each, campers are participating in a historical pageant, on a wooden stage in one photogra...
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Group of People in a Classroom

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Description: Interior group portrait of a large group of children and young adults posing standing and sitting in a room. Some of them are dressed in theatrical costume...
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Blackface Wedding in a Classroom

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Description: Interior group portrait over school desks towards children posing standing in a classroom wearing theatrical costumes and make-up.
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YWCA Theater Class Play

Date: 03 11
Description: Dressed for the final rehearsal for the "Evening of Fine Arts" presentation are YWCA theater class students, foreground, left to right, Mary Ellen Weaver, ...
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Madison Youth Summer Theatre

Date: 07 24 1958
Description: Mary-Kate Lorenz, left, directs Anna Lee Henningsen, seated, Lois Suomi, kneeling, and Ann Mannering, standing, in the spanking scene from Youth Summer the...
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Olivia Goldenberger as Little Lord Fauntleroy

Date: 1902
Description: Olivia Goldenberger (later changed to Olivia Monona) in costume as Little Lord Fauntleroy for a theater production.
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Dane County Amateur Theatrical Group

Date: 1923
Description: Nine young people posing on stage. One person is in blackface. Caption reads: "Dane County Wis Amateur theatrical group 1923".
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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...

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