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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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Shawl Pageant

Date: 03 16 1934
Description: Woman's Club Shawl pageant with Mrs. Rose Incorvino, Mrs. Jenni Parisi, Mrs. Annie Nania, and Mrs. Lousa Audini, dressed in Italian shawls, Greenbush.
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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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Shawl Pageant at Woman's Club Building

Date: 03 16 1934
Description: Woman's Club Shawl pageant, Mrs. M.A. Edwards, French shawl, and Mrs. L.B. Kruger, Spanish shawl.
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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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Christmas Pageant at the Wisconsin State Capitol

Date: 12 14 1952
Description: An angel perches in an archway of the Wisconsin State Capitol, being watched by an assistant during the annual Christmas Pageant.
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Christmas Pageant Rehearsal

Date: 12 21 1944
Description: Mrs. Robert Snaddon coaching Dave Cartter and Patty LaDuke for the Christ Presbyterian Church's Christmas 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

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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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First Methodist Church Pageant

Date: 12 13 1960
Description: The Three Wise Men in the Christmas pageant at First Methodist Church will wear silk-embroidered robes which came from a Buddhist monastery in China. The r...
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Mendota Hospital Centennial Event

Date: 07 16 1960
Description: Employees dress in turn-of-the-century dresses for a scene in a centennial pageant depicting nursing at Mendota State Hospital. The costumes were from the ...
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Mendota Hospital Centennial Event

Date: 07 16 1960
Description: Present day hospital administrators consider the centennial pageant of the history of Mendota State Hospital a success. They are, left to right: Dr. Walter...
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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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Beauty Pageant

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Description: A local beauty pageant for Wisconsin-wide media outlets and community organizations. The line-up of contestants are wearing one-piece bathing suits (with a...
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Beauty Pageant

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Description: A local beauty pageant for Wisconsin-wide media outlets and community organizations. The line-up of contestants are wearing one-piece bathing suits (with a...
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Beauty Pageant

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Description: A line of female contestants at a local beauty pageant for Wisconsin-wide media outlets and community organizations. They are standing before a turquoise c...
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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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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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