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| Date: | 01 03 1927 |
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| Description: | Capitol Theatre, at 211 State Street. View of the foundation excavation from the construction house roof toward State Street. The Wisconsin State Capitol i... |
| Date: | 02 01 1927 |
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| Description: | Capitol Theatre, at 211 State Street, under construction. View is looking from the south toward State Street. |
| Date: | 02 01 1927 |
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| Description: | Capitol Theatre, 211 State Street, under construction. View looking from Kessenich's toward Dayton Street. |
| Date: | 03 01 1927 |
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| Description: | Capitol Theatre, 211 State Street, under construction. View from the roof of Kruse's store towards two workmen and the construction house. |
| Date: | 04 10 1927 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of new Orpheum Theatre ushers. Behind the group is a statue of a boy with a goat on a pedestal near the "Aisle 2" doors to the auditorium. |
| Date: | 11 03 1926 |
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| Description: | Exterior view from street towards the front of the Orpheum Theater under construction, at 216 State Street. Posters on the temporary wood facade are for th... |
| Date: | 02 23 1954 |
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| Description: | Wide "Cinemascope" screen at the Orpheum Theatre, 216 State Street. |
| Date: | 02 26 1954 |
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| Description: | RCA Artcraft and IPC Simplex Cinemascope projector equipment used at Orpheum Theatre, 216 State Street. |
| Date: | 10 12 1944 |
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| Description: | Jean Larson, at the time one of three women projectionists in the country, operating the movie projector at the University of Wisconsin Memorial Union Play... |
| Date: | 08 27 1948 |
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| Description: | Children lined up on sidewalk in front of L. Wieman Co. Store, 205-07 State Street, to attend a free back-to-school movie party at the Capitol Theatre. In ... |
| Date: | 05 02 1961 |
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| Description: | Three men examining a plaque. The original caption states: "F.J. Williams, left, Portage theater owner and longtime Wisconsin showman, receives a plaque co... |
| Date: | 06 18 1980 |
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| Description: | View down street towards a large crowd gathering in a line outside the Orpheum Theatre on State Street for a free 10AM Madison premiere of The Empire St... |
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| Description: | View from street of the marquee and entrance to the Parkway Theatre at 6 W. Mifflin Street. |
| Date: | 09 1972 |
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| Description: | View across sidewalk of the Reierson Photography Studio storefront, in its new location, 14 East Mifflin Street, between adjoining businesses. The Wisconsi... |
| Date: | 09 1972 |
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| Description: | The Reierson Photography Studio storefront, in its new location, 14 East Mifflin Street, between adjoining businesses. The Wisconsin State Capitol is refle... |
| Date: | 10 2013 |
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| Description: | The movie "Vertigo" playing on a big screen in a darkened movie theater. The scene captured by the camera is of a woman walking along a the edge of the bay... |
| Date: | 1977 |
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| Description: | View across street towards the Middleton movie theater, a Quonset hut-style building on the east side of Parmenter Street between North and Franklin Street... |
| Date: | 11 12 2014 |
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| Description: | View of a movie screen from the seats in the middle of a theater. There are a few people sitting in the seats in the foreground. On the screen is a scene o... |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | View across King Street towards the Majestic Theater. The marquee has signs that read: "George Segal, Glenda Jackson, 'A Touch of Class' and 'Continuous Da... |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | View across East Mifflin Street towards the Esquire Movie Theater. The marquee above the doors reads: "3 Academy Award Nominations including Best Actor, Ja... |
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