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Lifebuoy Soap Dancers, Wheeler School of Dance

Date: 05 25 1933
Description: Group of seven dancers posing around an oversize cake of Lifebuoy Health Soap on a stage. The orchestra pit is in the foreground. Billie Usher, Marianne He...
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Students Performing Japanese Dance

Date: 06 05 1931
Description: Twelve girls performing Japanese dance in front of classmates in a Dudgeon School classroom.
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Capitol Steps Dancers

Date: 1900
Description: "Living flag" created by the Kehl dancers on the steps of the third Wisconsin State Capitol. This close view permits better examination of the ornamentatio...
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Kehl Students with Bows on Heads

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Description: A young group of students poses with bows on their heads at the Kehl School of Dance. Third from left is Ann Jackson, fourth from left is Betty Reichardt, ...
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Kehl Recital Advertisement

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Description: Eleven portraits of young costumed students appear in an advertisement reading "Leo Kehl Dancers To Appear In Recital."
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Large Group of Kehl Dancers

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Description: A large group of female dancers of varying ages pose in a variety of costumes at the Kehl School of Dance. The young girls in the front row wear dresses ad...
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Gerke Twins

Date: 1940
Description: Twin sisters Julie & Juliet Gerke, students at the Kehl School of Dance, posed in matching, Kehl-designed clothing--including hats, jackets, short skirts, ...
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Lowell(?) Hoffmaster as Chef

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Description: Lowell(?) Hoffmaster, a student at the Kehl School of Dance, poses in chef's costume with a serving tray.
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Elmer Taylor

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Description: Elmer Taylor, a student at the Kehl School of Dance, poses in 'formal wear' costume.
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Cameron McCarthy

Date: 1936
Description: Cameron McCarthy, a student at the Kehl School, wears a drum major costume and poses in a salute.
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Bonnabel & Florabell Severson

Date: 1936
Description: Sisters Bonnabel and Florabell Severson, students at the Kehl School of Dance pose, in dance costume.
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Wedding Dance

Date: 10 16 1948
Description: Unidentified couple dancing at the wedding of Kenneth Hoerres: a little girl and an adult man, perhaps her grandfather. In background are several other cou...
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Lincoln School "Ranch Hands"

Date: 10 08 1949
Description: Third graders at Lincoln School as Bar-None ranch hands singing and square dancing around a "campfire" in the gymnasium. Four couples, boys dressed as cowb...
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Student Couple Dancing

Date: 11 16 1956
Description: A young boy and girl dancing at the Cherokee Heights School dance party.
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Shorewood School Dancing Class

Date: 11 21 1952
Description: Five students, some from Randall School, at a Shorewood School dancing class.
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Semi-Centennial Pow Wow

Date: 1908
Description: Drummers and dancers at Semi-Centennial Pow Wow. Spectators are in the background, and a canvas is stretched around the clearing to make an enclosure. Buil...
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Lowell School Russian Dancers

Date: 01 07 1949
Description: Lowell School students staged a demonstration of "Music and Dance" for educators attending the Mid-Winter music clinic at the University of Wisconsin. Four...
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First Costume Ball

Date: 02 18 1949
Description: Members of Ethlyn Jefferds' dancing class, fifth and sixth grade students from Shorewood, Randall, and Lakewood schools, attending their first costume ball...
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Polka Party

Date: 1957
Description: A crowd gathers to watch men and women dance the polka at the Verona Legion Hall. A man plays a banjo in the background.
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Dancing Boys

Date: 04 22 1963
Description: Group of four boys in Bavarian costume performing a Bavarian folk dance.

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