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Two Golfers

Date: 10 07 1932
Description: Municipal golf pro with "armless" Fanchon and Marco golfer.
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Fanchon & Marco Showgirl

Date: 08 01 1932
Description: A Fanchon & Marco showgirl dressed in street clothes, leaning on a piano. Text on print reads: "'Mystery Revue' Orpheum Girl."
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Fanchon & Marco Showgirls

Date: 05 20 1932
Description: Fanchon & Marco showgirls posing while wearing straw hats at Karsten's clothing store.
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Orpheum Player at Henry Vilas Zoo

Date: 09 11 1930
Description: Elevated view of Orpheum players at the Henry Vilas Zoo (Vilas Park Zoo) standing next to buffaloes.
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Roundy Couglin and Show Troupe

Date: 06 23 1949
Description: Group portrait of Roundy Couglin and members of the Dodson Imperial Shows at Camp Wawbeek, where they had gone to entertain the 93 children camping there. ...
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Men Dressed as Hillbilly and a Preacher

Date: 08 15 1942
Description: A man with a gunny sack swung over his shoulder is dressed as a hillbilly with a wig and a fake beard. Next to him stands a man dressed as a preacher, and ...
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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 with Cigarette

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Description: Pierre Sidell wears a white fur hat and tunic with a fur collar. She is holding a cigarette as she poses with one foot up on a bench.
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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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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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Billie Sidell Posing on a Car

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Description: A fashionably-attired Billie (Violet) Sidell poses seated on the front fender of an automobile, which appears to be parked on a bridge.
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The Sidell Sisters

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Description: The Sidell sisters strike a dramatic pose as Billie (Violet) stands with Pierre draped upside-down across her shoulders. The sisters performed at this time...
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Hilo Hattie

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Description: Candid portrait of Hilo Hattie (born Clarissa "Clara" Haili), who was a Hawaiian musician, dancer, actress and comedian. There is a guitar on the ground ne...
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High Dive

Date: 1910
Description: Elevated view of a crowd watching a diver who has launched himself from a high ladder supported by guy wires. The railing around a small pool is visible on...
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Switch Engine No. 1079

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Description: Chicago, Milwaukee, & St. Paul Railway engine no. 1079, class J2. The engineer was Philip Currie and the fireman was Edward C. McNeill. The third man in th...
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Modern Woodmen of America Letterhead

Date: 1905
Description: Letterhead of the Milwaukee office of the Local Executive Committee for Head Camp Entertainment for a convention on June 20th to 24th, 1905, of the Modern ...
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Little Blue Crunchy Things

Date: 1995
Description: Publicity photograph of Little Blue Crunchy Things, a Milwaukee, Wisconsin rock/hip hop/funk band. Four of the members are writing out the initials "LbCT" ...
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Marques Bovre and the Evil Twins

Date: 1990
Description: Publicity photograph of the four band members of Marques Bovre & the Evil Twins, a Madison, Wisconsin band. From left to right are Eric Dummer, Marques Bov...

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