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| Date: | 1857 |
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| Description: | A woman dressed in Indian headwrap with feather, wrapped in a blanket, for a performance of "Black Hawk, or Lily of the Prairie," written by Mary Elizabeth... |
| Date: | 1857 |
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| Description: | Actress standing with crossed arms dressed in Indian headdress and wrap for performance of "Black Hawk, or Lily of the Prairie," written by Mary Elizabeth ... |
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| Description: | A group of 12 dancers pose in Mexican costume at the Kehl School of Dance. Leo Kehl, head of the school, appears second from the left. |
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| Description: | Twenty-one tap dancers from the Kehl School of Dance, posed in line formation on stage. |
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| Description: | An unknown dancer ("Brown") wearing a glittery pink and silver costume poses on her toes with arms outstretched at the Kehl School of Dance. |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | Sons of Norway group in traditional Norwegian costume standing on a replica of a viking ship as part of the Fall Festival. A large American flag flies from... |
| Date: | 01 1972 |
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| Description: | Poster publicizing a Hare Krishna "Self-Awakening Program" sessions in Madison, Wisconsin, at the Radha Krishna Temple, at 313 N. Livingston Street. Includ... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Badger Beauty contest at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Helen Fitzgerald is shown in back against the wall 6th from the left. She was a member of Tri... |
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| Description: | Billie Sidell poses seated, dressed in an elaborate, princely costume. She passes easily as a man. |
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| Description: | Billie Sidell contorts her body in a dancer's pose. She is wearing a beaded costume and a feathered headdress. |
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| Description: | Billie Sidell strikes an elegant pose, dressed in a beaded costume and feathered headdress. |
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| Description: | Billie Sidell, dressed as a man, poses with her sister, Pierre Sidell, who is sitting on her shoulder. They are wearing elaborate, ornate costumes. |
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| Description: | Pierre Sidell poses in a ballet dancing costume and pointe shoes, standing en pointe. The photograph is inscribed, "To my Teacher Leo Kehl. Pierre Sidell". |
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| Description: | Five Civics Club members pose in a cardboard automobile in front of a painted backdrop as suffragists. They're wearing period costumes and holding "Vote" s... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with two views of a play performed for Valentine's Day. One side shows a person dressed in jester's attir... |
| Date: | 01 30 1919 |
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| Description: | The library staff of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin and their guests the University of Wisconsin Library staff, at the Society's seventieth anni... |
| Date: | 01 30 1912 |
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| Description: | Ruben Gold Thwaites, Iva Welsh, and Mary Foster dressed as "Box and Cox" and Mrs. Bouncer from the 1840's comedy Box and Cox. They are at a costume ... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Cast members of a play staged for Valentine's Day, with costumed figures holding shields, a jester in a half-white and half-black costume, a woman with a c... |
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| Description: | Ben Bergor letterhead, promoting Bergor as a theatrical agent and entertainment consultant, with a cartoon of a bird wearing a top hat and a bow tie, and c... |
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| Description: | Group portrait of a sewing circle of young girls and women wearing Norwegian costumes. |
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