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Street Parade Rig

Date: 1870
Description: Street parade rig, apparently to agitate against delays in construction of a railroad to connect Manitowoc to the west. In the background is a store owned ...
Photograph

William H. Noland

Date: 07 04 1876
Description: Studio portrait of "Professor" William H. Noland in costume as leader of the Mock Parade, or "Horribles". He was a barber, musician, chiropodist, and publi...
Magazine or Periodical

Santa Claus and New Year

Date: 1878
Description: Cartoon of "Santa Claus Belated" by a fireplace delivering toys and speaking to a figure representing New Year 1878 saying: "Here we are again."
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Scene From Cardinal's Play

Date: 1875
Description: Costumed students act out a scene from Cardinal's Play outdoors on a lawn near a wooded area at the College of Mount Saint Vincent. The college was founded...
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Scene from Golden Ingots

Date: 1877
Description: Scene from Golden Ingots at the College of Mount Saint Vincent, founded by the Sisters of Charity of New York in 1847. Costumed students act outdoors in a ...
Poster

Poster for "The Shaughraun"

Date: 1875
Description: Color lithograph on paper. Title across top in caps. Below it a scene in a pub featuring three men, with the central figure propping a foot on a wooden buc...
Photograph

Julia Metcalf as Iphigenia

Date: 04 21 1876
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Julia Metcalf, in costume as Iphigenia from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's play Iphigenia in Tauris (Iphigenie auf Taur...
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Alice Tobey as Joan of Arc

Date: 04 21 1876
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Alice Tobey, in costume as Joan of Arc from Friedrich Schiller's The Maid of Orleans (Die Jungfrau von Orleans).
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Frank Cramer as Faust

Date: 04 21 1876
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Frank Cramer, in costume as Faust from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's play Faust.
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S.C. Gilbert as Don Caesar

Date: 04 21 1876
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of S.C. Gilbert, in costume as Don Caesar from Friedrich Schiller's play The Bride of Messina (Die Braut von Messina...
Photograph

Lina Martin as Marguerite

Date: 04 21 1876
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Lina Martin, in costume as Marguerite from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's play Faust.
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Jim Whaling as Mephistopheles

Date: 04 21 1876
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Jim [James] Whaling, in costume as Mephistopheles from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's play Faust.
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Milwaukeeans as Characters from Faust

Date: 04 21 1876
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Jim [James] Whaling, Frank Cramer, and Lina Martin in costume as Mephistopheles, Faust, and Marguerite from Johann Wolfgang von...
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Sidney Hauxhurst as Kalaf

Date: 04 21 1876
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Sidney Hauxhurst, in costume as Kalaf, prince of Astrakhan from Friedrich Schiller's play Turandot (Turandot, Prinzes...
Photograph

Lillian Carpenter as Mignon

Date: 04 21 1876
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Lillian Carpenter, in costume as Mignon from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's novel Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship (Wil...
Photograph

Georgiana Yates Cramer as Charlotte von Lengefeld

Date: 04 21 1876
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Georgiana Yates Cramer ("Mrs. Jno L Cramer," according to caption), in costume as Charlotte von Lengefeld, wife of Friedrich Sc...
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William Grant Fitch in Unidentified Costume

Date: 04 21 1876
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of William Grant Fitch, in costume.
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Mrs. Joseph Gilbert in Unidentified Costume

Date: 04 21 1876
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Mrs. Joseph Gilbert, in costume.
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Henry Liljencrantz as Wilhelm Meister

Date: 04 21 1876
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Henry Liljencrantz, in costume as Wilhelm Meister from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's novel Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
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Katharine F. Sherwood as Dorothea

Date: 04 21 1876
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Katharine F. Sherwood, in costume as Dorothea from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's poem Hermann and Dorothea.

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