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| Date: | 10 01 1943 |
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| Description: | Scene from "Wac-Khaki" GI Revue: Sergeant Henry Hale Uhar and seven other soldiers dressed as "Hawaiian Maidens," on stage at the Wisconsin Memorial Union ... |
| Date: | 01 08 1931 |
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| Description: | View towards a man dressed as a woman, with his back turned, standing in front of a group of American Legion men posing in a room at the G.A.R. Hall. The m... |
| Date: | 11 13 1930 |
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| Description: | "Archers" group on stage at Emerson School. |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | The Sidell Sisters in the Apache dance scene from Ziegfield's production of Show Boat. The Sidell Sisters were former students of Leo Kehl. |
| Date: | 12 06 1947 |
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| Description: | Participants in the "Fifty Years of Haresfoot" costume floor show are; (standing from left to right) Evan Clingman, John Griesbach, Don Minstor, Milt Beckm... |
| Date: | 02 07 1950 |
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| Description: | Nine women, all but two in blackface and all dressed in drag for a minstrel show, presented by a St. Bernard's Catholic Church Christian Mothers group. Sea... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Mazie Trumbull, famous as a cross-dresser and dancer, and her sister Frances, side by side in a White Studio photograph. |
| Date: | 03 24 1952 |
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| Description: | Four participants at the University of Wisconsin International Club Costume Ball gathered at the punch bowl. Left to right: Martin Begus, dressed as Napole... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Billie is dressed as a man, and Pierre is lying on a table with Billie leaning over her. |
| Date: | 10 23 1953 |
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| Description: | Four costumed actors rehearse for the "Periwinkle Review", an original showboat review sponsored by the Drama Department of the Woman's Club. |
| Date: | 11 03 1953 |
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| Description: | Don Aitken, Bill Colletti, and David Vilas dressed as women as they practice their cheerleading act for the "Teen Time" television program. "Teen Time" was... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | The Dizzy Sizzlers were a comedy band based in Watertown that performed throughout Wisconsin during the 1950s and 1960s. |
| Date: | 03 1945 |
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| Description: | Surviving crew members of the USS Franklin watching an amateur vaudeville on their hanger deck, seven says after their disaster. The USS Franklin... |
| Date: | 04 19 1954 |
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| Description: | One of a series of scenes from the dramatic production "Down Memory Lane", presented in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Madison ... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Phyllis Blake (played by Corinne Griffith) dressed as a man in a salt-and-pepper suit and bow tie. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Full-length studio "gag" portrait of two men in front of a painted backdrop. The man on the right, James Gorman, is wearing work clothes, boots and hat and... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Film still - exterior - depicting a young man and young woman looking at each other. The man is played by the actress playing the young woman shown in the ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Three English girls who were raised as boys, from left to right: Tommy (played by Marguerite Clark), Willie (Eleanor Lawson), and Noel (Helen Greene) in a ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Marguerite Clark is seated in a Hansom cab in a publicity still for "The Amazons." She wears a man's tailcoat with white tie, cape, and top hat. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Wearing men's western clothing Jem Mason (played by Agnes Vernon) looks doubtfully at Bare Fisted Gallagher (William Desmond). She holds a Winchester repea... |
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