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Interior Design Demonstration

Date: 07 14 1928
Description: Home economics demonstration about interior design for the women attending an Agricultural Extension Station Day.
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Joel McCrea and Laraine Day

Date: 1940
Description: Laraine Day takes a photograph of Joel McCrea; both are smiling. Both are dressed very nicely. In the background a crew member looks at them from a raised ...
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Women on Stage

Date: 1916
Description: Seven women on stage, apparently in a scene from an amateur theatrical performance, wearing conventional street clothes.
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Studio Group Portrait of European American Children

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Description: Studio portrait of three European American children. The boy is posing sitting on the left on a stone wall, with his left arm resting on the wall, and is w...
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Studio Portrait of Two European American Women

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Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a woman posing standing on the left, and a woman posing standing on the right.
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Margaret McGuire Promoting Cheese

Date: 1952
Description: Margaret McGuire, the 1948 Alice in Dairyland, on WAFM-TV, Channel 13, with another woman promoting Wisconsin Cheese.
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"Scarlet Days"

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Description: Still from the film "Scarlet Days." A group of men and women are standing on a street and pointing toward a woman who is leaning against a pole. A number o...
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"For the Defense"

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Description: Three men restraining a woman in a still from the film "For the Defense." Another woman and a man are shielding a third woman.
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Roscoe Arbuckle and Buster Keaton in The Bell Boy

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Description: Scene still from the 1918 silent film The Bell Boy. Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle is standing at the center of a group, wearing a plaid suit. He is holdin...
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Jean Simmons

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Description: Actress Jean Simmons getting her hair adjusted by an unidentified woman, probably hairdresser Vivienne Walker. Simmons is sitting in costume on the set of ...
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Scene from "Alibi"

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Description: Dancers taking a curtain call on stage in a scene from the 1929 film "Alibi." The orchestra is in a pit in front of the stage, and two men and two women ar...
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"Kiss Me Kate" Scene

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Description: A scene still from the 1953 film "Kiss Me Kate" starring Howard Keel and Kathryn Grayson. In the scene, Keel, as Petruchio, has snared Kate, Grayson, aroun...
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Charles Boyer and Jean Arthur on Set

Date: 1937
Description: Charles Boyer and Jean Arthur talk with director Frank Borzage on the set of the 1937 film "History Is Made at Night". Borzage sits in a chair while Boyer ...
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A Beardless Resident

Date: 07 06 1956
Description: View of an outdoor performance with a tree on the left, and a brick building in the background. Two men in suits are attempting to push a third man into a ...
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Neillsville High School Senior Class Play

Date: 1912
Description: Group portrait of seven young men and three young women, in costume and seated or standing around a couch. Caption reads: "Augusta Masie Breed. Senior Clas...
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Neillsville High School Senior Class Play

Date: 1912
Description: Posed scene from a play. A man kneels and reaches out to a woman, who is turned away but looking back at him. Another actress is dressed as a young child, ...
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Tercentennial Celebration, Green Bay

Date: 07 1934
Description: View across lawn towards people standing in front of a large theater stage and backdrop with trees drawn on it. Some are costumed as soldiers and some as N...
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John Barrymore and Eda Bruna

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Description: John Barrymore and Eda Bruna stand next to each other in a scene from the 1909-1910 play The Fortune Hunter. They appear to be in a restaurant or a drug s...
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"Zenobia" publicity photograph

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Description: Ruth Fitzgibbon, Marjorie Kane, Marie Barde, and Alice Koerner hold onto Pat Lane and Jack Egan as they sit atop penny-farthing bicycles on a street. The ...
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"Zenobia" publicity photograph

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Description: A man and actress Alice Koerner sit on a horse on the set of the 1939 film "Zenobia."

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