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| Date: | 11 02 1930 |
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| Description: | Group of people, including dwarfs and midgets, posing with "the worlds largest tire" in front of the RKO Orpheum Theatre as part of a promotion for Goodyea... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view from street towards ushers posing in front of the Capitol Theatre. The marquee reads: "Maurice Chevalier in 'The Love Parade.'" |
| Date: | 02 01 1931 |
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| Description: | Orpheum and Capitol theatre ushers listening to a talk about fire prevention as they are standing beneath a marquee that advertises the epic "Cimarron." |
| Date: | 04 22 1934 |
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| Description: | Howard Morey delivering the film "Hell's Holiday" to R.E. Mutchler of American Legion Post No. 57 for Parkway Theatre. (The man in the top coat is unidenti... |
| Date: | 03 13 1936 |
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| Description: | View from street of Barney Miller, the driver, feeding hay to Ned, the oldest dairy horse in service in Madison. The horse is hitched to a Kennedy Dairy wa... |
| Date: | 07 13 1933 |
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| Description: | View from street of the Eastwood theatre, located at 2090 Atwood Avenue with "Sun - The Mind Reader with W. Williams and C. Cummings" and "Happy Jack Turn... |
| Date: | 10 31 1932 |
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| Description: | Children in Halloween costumes carrying signs for Jimmy Durante's "Phantom President" movie, including horse and carriage with drivers and riders. |
| Date: | 09 24 1932 |
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| Description: | Horse-drawn cart advertising "Horsefeathers," a Marx Brothers movie, for the RKO Orpheum Theatre. "Mad Mirth takes a chariot ride among the wild oats." |
| Date: | 04 24 1932 |
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| Description: | Orpheum and Capitol ushers relaxing at the Orpheum Theatre, 216 State Street, where "Tarzan the Ape Man" is showing, at a kickoff for the Milk Bottle Fund ... |
| Date: | 06 02 1931 |
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| Description: | View towards a woman sitting in the Strand Theatre box office surrounded by a display of helmets, guns and sand bags for the motion picture "Women of All N... |
| Date: | 04 29 1931 |
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| Description: | Shell service station, with a male attendant standing in front. There are posters advertising the "Trader Horn" movie on the ground in front of the pumps. |
| Date: | 02 23 1931 |
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| Description: | Shooting movie in Wisconsin Supreme Courtroom in the Wisconsin State Capitol building. |
| Date: | 02 09 1931 |
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| Description: | Mr. Katz presenting Governor Phillip La Follette with a Warner Bros. movie pass. |
| Date: | 01 10 1931 |
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| Description: | Advertisement for Movie "Lightnin'" starring Will Rogers. The marquee at the Strand Theatre reads: "Break all dates — see Will Rogers in Lightnin." 16 E. M... |
| Date: | 01 08 1931 |
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| Description: | View towards a man dressed as a woman, with his back turned, standing in front of a group of American Legion men posing in a room at the G.A.R. Hall. The m... |
| Date: | 12 31 1930 |
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| Description: | Group of people drinking coffee and being served donuts on New Year's Eve at the Strand Theater. In the center is a sign for the "Just Imagine" movie. |
| Date: | 12 27 1930 |
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| Description: | View across street towards an advertisement for the movie "Third Alarm" on the side of a fire wagon with two fire fighters being pulled by horses in front ... |
| Date: | 11 22 1930 |
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| Description: | People lined up in front of the Strand Theater, 16 E. Mifflin Street, to see "The Big Trail." Also shows Boy Scouts, their leader and an Indian with a sign... |
| Date: | 11 08 1930 |
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| Description: | Parade of new Buicks advertising the midnight preview of the movie "Whoopee" starring Eddie Cantor playing at the RKO Capitol Theatre. |
| Date: | 10 24 1930 |
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| Description: | Display advertising "Monte Carlo" movie featuring roulette wheel in Capitol lobby? A man is standing behind a table on the right. |
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