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Women Circus Drummers

Date: 1942
Description: Five women drummers with the Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey Circus posing with striped drums. They are wearing band uniforms, including large hats to...
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Dane County Theater Group Champions

Date: 02 01 1930
Description: Group portrait of Dane county theater group champions on stage holding a painting.
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Church Choir

Date: 1898
Description: A woman plays the organ, while two women, wearing hats, and three men, gather behind her, holding song books. They are enclosed by a low, circular railing;...
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Musicians Playing Instruments

Date: 
Description: A studio portrait of four men playing musical instruments in front of a painted backdrop. They are wearing suit jackets, vests, neckties, and trousers. The...
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Junior Red Cross Variety Show

Date: 02 23 1949
Description: Junior Red Cross variety show. James Stiene and Dick Grahn with sticks, work hard in the variety show's Chinese play under the supervision of Bob Pickarts....
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Girl Dancers in Costume

Date: 1931
Description: Eight young dancers in costume pose onstage.
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 216-225

Date: 
Description: Our side of the fence is all dovetail — where they
winked and upset the story-book, that's
over on your side
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Flower Girls

Date: 05 1931
Description: Faye Finch, Dorothy Tober and Doris Behling pose out of doors. They are dressed in crepe paper costumes with petalled skirts, leaf bibs and caps with stem...
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Group of Usherettes

Date: 1950
Description: Usherettes perform Swiss folk dances for the annual William Tell Festival.
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Opening Night of the 47th Annual Haresfoot Show

Date: 04 26 1954
Description: Visiting in the atrium of University of Wisconsin Union Theater prior to the performance of the musical comedy, "Wait and See," are (left to right): Profes...
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Madison Theatre Guild's Tenth Anniversary

Date: 08 1955
Description: Fern and Charles Thompson, chairmen of the ticket campaign for the Madison Theatre Guild, are presenting the first two season tickets to Mayor George Forst...
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Dane County Amateur Theatrical Group

Date: 1923
Description: Nine young people posing on stage. One person is in blackface. Caption reads: "Dane County Wis Amateur theatrical group 1923".
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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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Theater Guild Committee

Date: 08 09 1956
Description: Four women posing in front of bookshelves, looking at stacks of publications. Caption reads: "The Theater Guild committee met Wednesday at the Unive...

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