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| Date: | 08 03 1946 |
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| Description: | Eddie Cantor, in blackface, on stage at Centurama Evening Performance. In the background men and women are sitting at a long table in front of a large ima... |
| Date: | 08 05 2016 |
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| Description: | A man posing standing outdoors with his protest sign. He is wearing white, black, and red face paint. His sign reads: "Don't Deport Mexicans, Deadpool Need... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | A man dressed as a clown is standing next to a young boy at Circus World Museum. The boy is sitting on the side of a circus wagon. |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | A clown on stilts is pointing towards the left. Behind him a crowd of people are standing in a line. Two circus wagons are behind the crowd, one an animal ... |
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| Description: | A nude woman, with long hair, is standing and posing against a backdrop. Her body has been painted to look like the face of a tiger, with stripes on her ar... |
| Date: | 09 13 1927 |
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| Description: | View of a group of people who are facing away looking at something. |
| Date: | 2016 |
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| Description: | A young Indian woman, Ishrat, is sitting in a lawn chair in her booth at a fair. She is wearing a traditional Punjabi outfit (the salwar kameez) and is off... |
| Date: | 12 29 1953 |
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| Description: | The annual Christmas Charity Ball held at the Loraine Hotel. Joan Fagan, general chairperson for the ball, is helped with her coat by Denny Cosgrove. She i... |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Group of seven men posing in clown costumes and holding musical instruments. A drum on a wheeled cart has a cartoon representation of a clown, and is label... |
| Date: | 04 29 1954 |
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| Description: | Zor Shrine clown, J. Leigh, is warming up make-up with his hands to make it more pliable before applying it to his face. |
| Date: | 04 29 1954 |
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| Description: | Zor Shrine clown, J. Leigh, is painting his eyebrows. |
| Date: | 04 29 1954 |
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| Description: | Zor Shrine clown J. Leigh's finished face with what would be a red nose. Leigh is also in full costume with hat and shirt. |
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| Description: | A local beauty pageant for Wisconsin-wide media outlets and community organizations. The line-up of contestants are wearing one-piece bathing suits (with a... |
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| Description: | A local beauty pageant for Wisconsin-wide media outlets and community organizations. The line-up of contestants are wearing one-piece bathing suits (with a... |
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| Description: | A line of female contestants at a local beauty pageant for Wisconsin-wide media outlets and community organizations. They are standing before a turquoise c... |
| Date: | 06 08 1957 |
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| Description: | Marie Lipka, a director of the Atwood Community House, receives a check from the Madison Junior Chamber of Commerce. Looking on, while doing yard work and ... |
| Date: | 08 07 1957 |
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| Description: | Bandleader Monty Hacker dressed in a clown suit and with smiling makeup on his face at the Shrine-Knights of Columbus benefit show at Breese Stevens Field.... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Cinematographer James Wong Howe applying makeup to actor John Garfield who is sitting in a chair on the set of the 1947 film "Body and Soul." |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Katharine Hepburn having her makeup applied by makeup artist George Frost while on set of the 1951 film "The African Queen." They are on a covered porch. |
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| Description: | Glynis Johns watching unknown actor having makeup applied to his face by an unidentified man, possibly makeup artist Len Garde, on the set of the 1948 film... |
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