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Americanization Pageant

Date: 05 18 1919
Description: Scene from Poale Zion Chasidim, an Americanization pageant held in the Milwaukee auditorium to welcome Milwaukee's new citizens.
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Methodist Church Easter Pageant

Date: 04 28 1935
Description: First Methodist Church, 203 Wisconsin Avenue. Easter pageant "At Dawning," with a large group of actors in costume in a scene on "stage" in the chancel.
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First Methodist Church Easter Pageant

Date: 04 20 1935
Description: First Methodist Church, 203 Wisconsin Avenue. Easter pageant, with large group of actors in costume in a scene on "stage" in the chancel.
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Christmas Pagaent Scene

Date: 12 21 1934
Description: First Christian Church school students and choir members dressed as angels and shepherds in a scene from a Christmas pageant "The Promised One" in Esther V...
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Shawl Pageant at Woman's Club Building

Date: 03 16 1934
Description: Woman's Club Shawl pageant, Chinese: Mrs. Harry Fease; Irish: Mrs. Thomas Hippaka; Norwegian: Mrs. George Mueller, Carol and Thea Kittleson; East Indian: M...
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Shawl Pageant at Woman's Club Building

Date: 03 16 1934
Description: Woman's Club Shawl pageant, front: Colonial: Odette Hendrickson and Joyce Wittwer, Hungarian, Merrilyn Olson. Left rear: Egyptian, Rosemary Rice; current 1...
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Nativity Christmas Pageant

Date: 12 1943
Description: The cast of the Nativity Christmas pageant of Blessed Sacrament Church, posed on a stairway in their costumes.
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Zion Lutheran Church Christmas Pageant

Date: 12 24 1946
Description: A scene from the Christmas Pageant presented at the Zion Lutheran Church, 247 Division Street. Angels are left to right: Arlene Jenkins, Mary Sachtjen, Els...
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Marquette School Pageant

Date: 04 21 1948
Description: Six students from Marquette School representing early Wisconsin settlers in Norwegian ethnic costumes performing in the school pageant celebrating Wisconsi...
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Marquette School Pageant

Date: 04 21 1948
Description: Nine students from Marquette School representing early Wisconsin settlers in Russian, Polish, and Czechoslovakian ethnic costumes performing in the school ...
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Marquette School Pageant

Date: 04 21 1948
Description: Nine students from Marquette School representing early Wisconsin settlers in British Isles costumes performing in the school pageant celebrating Wisconsin'...
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Refugee Child Acting in a Play

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Description: Portrait of a refugee child acting in a play at a Displaced Persons camp; Germany. Saul Sorrin was interviewed as part of the Wisconsin Survivors of the...
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Americanization Pageant

Date: 07 31 1953
Description: School children Nancy and Billy Hoppe look at costumes to be worn by actresses in the upcoming Americanization Pageant.
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Nakoma's Twelfth Night Party

Date: 01 06 1959
Description: Nakoma's Twelfth Night Party features the historical pageantry of the Twelfth Night tradition. Admiring a giant-sized "plum pudding" were Marjorie Davenpor...
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 359-369

Date: 
Description: Everybody was wonderful

Stars kept rising, pink and gold
Trailing threads of breathless music
barely out of reach
Hand to hand around the n...
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Jamal Stevenson

Date: 05 25 1984
Description: A boy dressed as Michael Jackson is singing as a group of young people are watching in the background. Caption reads: "Six-year-old Jamal Stevenson imitate...
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German Dinner at the Ark

Date: 08 27 1910
Description: Group portrait of Holt and Wheeler children who are dressed in costumes to resemble young Germans. One boy, sitting on the floor in front, is pretending to...

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