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| Description: | Holiday card with an African American woman dancing with Santa Claus. She is wearing a green mini-dress with a belt, and red go-go boots. A phonograph and ... |
| Date: | 07 22 1953 |
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| Description: | Eight chorus cancan dancers high-kicking at the Blackhawk Country Club Gay 90's party. Left to right: Ellsworth Mack, Dorothy Bleecker, Lois Blau, Martha ... |
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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 ... |
| Date: | 02 15 1954 |
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| Description: | As part of Co-ed's Week, an event designed to combine features of special interest to college women, three U.W. dance majors perform an interpretive dance ... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Irene Castle in a complicated satin and tulle costume in her role as the cabaret dancer Palma May in the silent film "French Heels" (Holtre 1922). |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Irene Castle in pajamas and sleeping cap enjoying a cantaloupe as part of a posed breakfast in bed with her pet monkey Rastus. This photograph was used to ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Irene Castle in a gauzy tulle and satin dress in a full-length pose in a publicity photograph for the silent film "Patria" (International 1917). |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Irene Castle in a gauzy tulle and satin dress poses full-length in an air-brushed publicity photograph. The caption printed on the back of the print reads:... |
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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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| 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... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Actress Bessie Barriscale as Anna Gerard, the Parisian singer at the Black Rat night club in "A Trick of Fate" (Exhibitors Mutual, 1919). |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | The writer Vera Caspary, pen in hand, with male and female dancers handsomely posed behind her in a publicity still for the musical comedy play "Wedding in... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Film still depicting a group of men and women, some of the women dressed in gown costumes. |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Film still of interior palatial scene with large group of actors and actresses dancing and celebrating in Indian costumes, some with turbans. |
| Date: | 11 25 1976 |
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| Description: | Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. The Macy's storefront can be seen in the background. A yellow and brown International Harvester Scout 4x4 is towing a float... |
| Date: | 04 07 1959 |
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| Description: | Dancers in three German folk dances given by the the Badgerettes unit include, left to right: Caroline Doersch, Mrs. Dean Hoppmann, Marlene Smedema, and Ar... |
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| Description: | Our side of the fence is all dovetail — where they winked and upset the story-book, that's over on your side |
| Date: | 02 22 1932 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 02 22 1932 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | In this dramatically lit publicity still for the silent drama "Look Your Best," Antonio Moreno wears what appears to be a cupid costume with feathered head... |
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