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Group of Girls

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Description: A group of girls, possibly in a school pageant.
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Villa Louis Tea

Date: 05 21 1948
Description: Eudora Kolowinski, from Prairie du Chien, Miss Crawford County, and Bevery Johnston, Ferryville, Miss Villa Louis, in formal dress, stand in front of the p...
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Historical Pageant

Date: 1925
Description: Two girls in costume sitting at the feet of Mary Turner Carriel, who is sitting on a raised dais in a chair dressed in a fur-trimmed cape, crowned Mother Q...
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Rai-Molay Dance Royalty

Date: 03 22 1954
Description: Group portrait of the "royal family" for the spring semi-formal dance of the Order of De Molay and Order of Rainbow for Girls to be held at the Masonic Tem...
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Rai-Molay King and Queen

Date: 03 22 1954
Description: Portrait of Leland Briggs and Mary Lyon, king and queen of the spring semi-formal dance of the Order of De Molay and Order of Rainbow for Girls.
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Theresa Fire Department Queen and Contestants

Date: 07 1988
Description: "Theresa Fire Department Queen, Tammy Nickel, posed with contestants. From left: Brenda Bernhard, Isabel Alvarado, Diana Christian, Vicky Pastorius, Julie...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 359-369

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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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Gathering of Girls Wearing State Sashes

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of girls wearing State sashes, and a group of boys on the right wearing uniforms. One boy has a drum, another boy has a flag, and th...
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Patriotic Pageant

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of the participants of a patriotic pageant. The men are wearing suits, and some are wearing military medals. The boys are in uniform...
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Audience for a Beauty Pageant

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Description: Formally dressed audience members are watching a beauty pageant in a smoky beer hall. The men are wearing suits with ties; the women are wearing dresses an...
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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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Julia Metcalf as Iphigenia

Date: 04 21 1876
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Julia Metcalf, in costume as Iphigenia from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's play Iphigenia in Tauris (Iphigenie auf Taur...
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Lina Martin as Marguerite

Date: 04 21 1876
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Lina Martin, in costume as Marguerite from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's play Faust.
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Lillian Carpenter as Mignon

Date: 04 21 1876
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Lillian Carpenter, in costume as Mignon from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's novel Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship (Wil...
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Georgiana Yates Cramer as Charlotte von Lengefeld

Date: 04 21 1876
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Georgiana Yates Cramer ("Mrs. Jno L Cramer," according to caption), in costume as Charlotte von Lengefeld, wife of Friedrich Sc...
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Mrs. Joseph Gilbert in Unidentified Costume

Date: 04 21 1876
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Mrs. Joseph Gilbert, in costume.
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Katharine F. Sherwood as Dorothea

Date: 04 21 1876
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Katharine F. Sherwood, in costume as Dorothea from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's poem Hermann and Dorothea.
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Grant Martin and Katharine Sherwood as Hermann and Dorothea

Date: 04 21 1876
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Grant Martin and Katharine Sherwood, in costume as Hermann and Dorothea from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's poem Hermann and D...
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Women Cooking at Pageant

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Description: Two women in hats and dresses are stirring the contents of a cooking pot hanging on a tripod. Caption reads: "Stoughton, Wis. Pageant. Women in native cost...

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