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| Date: | 10 28 1931 |
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| Description: | Abraham Lincoln impersonator, Charles E. Bull, of Hollywood, California, and Jesse S. Meyers, commander of the Madison G.A.R. post, stand in front of a por... |
| Date: | 03 25 1947 |
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| Description: | Cast members in costume at Longfellow School play, "The Bear's Dream". |
| Date: | 10 13 1948 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Robert (Dorothy L.) Sirney, standing in front of a curtain and wearing a Norwegian costume. She is holding a wooden platter she has decorated with ros... |
| Date: | 12 06 1948 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Celin Furu is shown in Norwegian costume displaying her rosemaled painted platters and sideboard cabinet. She was a wartime resident of Bergen, Norway... |
| Date: | 12 06 1948 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Celin Furu is shown in Norwegian costume displaying her oil painting of Trolfjord, as well as Rosemaled furniture. She was a wartime resident of Berge... |
| Date: | 11 08 1948 |
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| Description: | Dressed in Elizabethan costume during the University of Wisconsin Beefeaters' Dinner in Tripp Commons are Felice Michaels, Chicago, Chairman of the Union n... |
| Date: | 12 24 1948 |
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| Description: | John Steinhaus's children (a boy and a girl) sitting on Santa's lap. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A young woman poses seated in front of a painted forest backdrop. She wears wings and is wrapped in a diaphanous material. On the left on the ground is a s... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A young woman poses with a basket of flowers over one arm. She wears an old-fashioned costume and stands in front of a painted backdrop which mimics a ston... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A model posed as an angel sits on the ground in front of a sylvan backdrop, warming her hands over a fire. She wears wings and a dress of diaphanous materi... |
| Date: | 02 26 1952 |
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| Description: | Pictured is the Madison Theater's Guild's costume designer who uses only the name Loie. |
| Date: | 01 18 1927 |
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| Description: | Full-length studio portrait of Emma W. Gebhardt sitting in front of a painted backdrop. She is wearing a long, polka-dotted skirt, a printed blouse, a band... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of an African American boy dressed in the costume of a stereotypical newsboy. The child holds up a newspaper in one hand and holding a stac... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Pearl White stands in front of a painted studio background, sword in hand, wearing the female version of a U.S. Army cavalry uniform. |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Dorothy Jardon in a White Studio publicity photograph for her first Broadway appearance, the musical comedy "The Merry-Go-Round," which opened at the Circl... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Watercolor and gouache over graphite sketch on paper of a long black gown with a black bow at the waist designed for "All About Eve" (Twentieth Century-Fox... |
| Date: | 07 1901 |
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| Description: | Standing full-length portrait of Henry Bartholomay forms the left half of a postcard. The message reads: "Love and Greetings from Your loving cousin Henry ... |
| Date: | 01 18 1927 |
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| Description: | Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of three women wearing gypsy costumes. One women is sitting in the center, and two women are sit... |
| Date: | 01 18 1927 |
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| Description: | Full-length studio portrait of Jennie White sitting on a chair in front of a painted backdrop. She is wearing a long, dark, patterned skirt, a light blouse... |
| Date: | 01 18 1927 |
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| Description: | Full-length studio portrait of Geda (Gyda) Severson standing next to a chair in front of a painted backdrop. She is wearing a long, dark skirt, a light blo... |
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