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| Description: | A young boy and girl posing standing for a studio portrait, playing musical instruments in front of a painted backdrop. The boy is wearing a matching suit ... |
| Date: | 03 02 1949 |
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| Description: | The Wisconsin Players presented "River Boat," an original centennial drama written by Robert Gard of Madison and Dore Reich of Milwaukee at the Memorial Un... |
| Date: | 03 11 1949 |
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| Description: | Shown are some of the players rehearsing for "Le Malade Imaginaire", the Moliere comedy which the U.W. department of French and Italian presented at the Wi... |
| Date: | 03 20 1949 |
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| Description: | The University of Wisconsin honored the dead of four wars with a concert presented by the University Symphony orchestra and chorus that was attended by som... |
| Date: | 03 23 1949 |
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| Description: | Cast members of the 19th century Mexican play "A Ninguna de Las Tres" by Frenando Calderon to be presented at the Memorial Union Play Circle as part of the... |
| Date: | 04 07 1949 |
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| Description: | East High School actors being made up for a preformance of "Tish." Left to right: Pat Runstrom, Virginia Henrickson, Connie Connor, Leslie West, Rita Cleas... |
| Date: | 05 05 1949 |
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| Description: | Rehearsing for the Wisconsin Players production of "Bite the Dust" are left to right: Irving Kreutz as Six-Killer Onehorse; Patricia McKeene as Polly Pears... |
| Date: | 10 31 1938 |
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| Description: | Les Hartmann and his McCormick-Deering Band at the Waterloo Dairy Cattle Congress. Eight men and three women are on a stage, presumably ready to perform fo... |
| Date: | 09 09 1979 |
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| Description: | A large group of people rallying in support of gay rights at the top of State Street on the Capitol Square. They are listening to a man playing guitar. Man... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Three men and two women gather in a living room to listen to one of the men playing a guitar. The room is in the worker housing at an International Harvest... |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | A crowd gathers to watch men and women dance the polka at the Verona Legion Hall. A man plays a banjo in the background. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A trained mule performs at an event. The mule is walking across metal pegs towards a thin, wooden board. |
| Date: | 08 11 1949 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Carl (Lola) Waller, 2138 Chamberlin Avenue, and her neighbor, Mrs. Everett F. (Elsa) Johnson, 2130 Chamberlin Avenue, posing for a portrait while atte... |
| Date: | 08 11 1949 |
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| Description: | Professor and Mrs. John (Lois) Dietrich, 1218 Spring Street, at the Wisconsin Union theater for the opening of the Wisconsin Players' production of "The Ph... |
| Date: | 10 05 1949 |
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| Description: | Left to right: Dave Brodhead, Bill Spoentgen and Helen Hosler, three Wisconsin High School students, rehearse for "Trifles", a one-act play. |
| Date: | 10 21 1949 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Lloyd W. (Mildred) Coleman, at left, and Mrs. J. Gibson (Marion) Winans, at right, playing a piano duet as part of the program for the Shorewood Hills... |
| Date: | 10 21 1949 |
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| Description: | Three actors in costume, portraying pre-Revolutionary New England characters in the drama, "The Devil's Disciple" by George Bernard Shaw. The actors, part ... |
| Date: | 10 25 1949 |
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| Description: | The Madison Blackfriars Guild is shown rehearsing a scene from Tennessee Willliams' play," The Glass Menagerie". Here, Laura (Patricia McKune) collapses a... |
| Date: | 11 01 1949 |
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| Description: | Three members of the play-reading group of the Junior Division of the University League and their husbands meet to read a play. Standing left to right are:... |
| Date: | 01 28 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising exhibitions at the L'atelier Gallery. On display are works by J.P. Schmelzer and Gina Larson Van Veghel. |
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