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The Sidell Sisters and Uncle Sid

Date: 02 1930
Description: The Sidell Sisters pose on either side of August Sidell (Uncle Sid). From left to right are Pierre Sidell, August Sidell and Violet (Billie) Sidell.
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Billie Sidell Costumed as a Man

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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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Billie Sidell in Feathered Headdress

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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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Billie Sidell in Dancer's Pose

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Description: Billie Sidell strikes an elegant pose, dressed in a beaded costume and feathered headdress.
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The Sidell Sisters in Elaborate Costumes

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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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Pierre Sidell as a Ballerina

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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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Billie Sidell Holds Pierre Aloft

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Description: Billie (Violet) Sidell holds her sister Pierre Sidell aloft over her shoulder in a pose. They are posing outdoors on a shoreline wearing what appears to be...
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The Sidell Sisters in a Dance Pose

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Description: The Sidell sisters create a dramatic, elegant dance pose as Billie (Violet), who is standing, holds Pierre upside-down across her shoulders.
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Gold Dust Twins

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Description: The Gold Dust Twins were a popular comedy-musical act that toured in the Midwest during the 1950s. The two men sang, danced, and performed banjo music, as ...
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Woman Dancer Posing

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Description: A woman dancer in costume strikes a pose in profile in a yard in front of a porch. Her costume consists of harem trousers, a sash around her waist, a camis...
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Woman Posing in Costume

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Description: A woman in a costume gazes into the camera with one foot resting on a box, one hand on her hip, the other hand on her knee. Her costume consists of harem t...
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Film Still from "Dad's Downfall"

Date: 1917
Description: Film still depicting a group of men and women, some of the women dressed in gown costumes.
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Film Still from "The Beckoning Flame"

Date: 1916
Description: Film still of interior palatial scene with large group of actors and actresses dancing and celebrating in Indian costumes, some with turbans.
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Early Photograph of Gene Kelly and Family

Date: 1914
Description: Harriet Curran Kelly and her four children in a studio portrait from about 1914. From left to right the children are Eugene, Harriet, Louise, and James. Wi...
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Fred Stone and Family

Date: 1918
Description: The theatrical Stone family at Chin Chin Ranch. From left to right: Allene Crater (Mrs. Fred Stone), Fred Stone, Dorothy Stone, Carol Stone, and Paula Ston...
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Folk Dancing

Date: 1931
Description: Three couples of school age children perform a folk dance outdoors in the grass. The boys wear knickers and patterned stockings; the girls are in dresses. ...
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Folk Dancing

Date: 1932
Description: Four students of the Fontana State Graded School strike a pose while folk dancing outdoors. The boys are wearing knickers; the girls wear dresses and patte...
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Grand Hotel Queen's Birthday Menu Exterior

Date: 05 24 1898
Description: Front and back covers, printed in color, of the bill of fare served at the Grand Hotel on the birthday of Queen Victoria, with a tinted three-quarter view ...
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Bicentennial Dance

Date: 02 22 1932
Description: Children at the Honey Creek State Graded School, District No. 1, commemorate the 200th anniversary of the birth of George Washington with a dance performed...
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Washington's Birthday

Date: 02 22 1932
Description: Two students at the Honey Creek School, District No. 1, pose as if dancing a minuet outside of the school building. The boy and girl are dressed in Eightee...

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