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| Date: | 1857 |
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| Description: | An actor in an Indian headdress and jewelry for performance of "Black Hawk, or Lily of the Prairie," a drama written by Mary Elizabeth Mears and presented ... |
| Date: | 1857 |
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| Description: | An actor dressed as an army officer, holding a saber, for the performance of "Black Hawk, or Lily of the Prairie," a drama written by Mary Elizabeth Mears ... |
| Date: | 1857 |
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| Description: | A woman dressed in Indian headwrap with feather, wrapped in a blanket, for a performance of "Black Hawk, or Lily of the Prairie," written by Mary Elizabeth... |
| Date: | 1857 |
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| Description: | Actress standing with crossed arms dressed in Indian headdress and wrap for performance of "Black Hawk, or Lily of the Prairie," written by Mary Elizabeth ... |
| Date: | 02 12 1963 |
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| Description: | Six members of the same family form the complete cast of a library playhouse production that was to be televised. |
| Date: | 06 26 1963 |
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| Description: | Hope United Church of Christ members are putting on a skit of the "roaring twenties." |
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| Description: | Queenie Vassar (1870-1960) Scottish-born stage and motion picture actress of the 1930s and 1940s. |
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| Description: | Miss Batchelor, aspiring actress around the turn of the 19th century. |
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| Description: | Jennie Goldthwaite, a performer from around the turn of the century. |
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| Description: | Mrs. Stuart Robson (1861-1924), actress, started her career as Miss May Waldron. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | The Fourth of July "living flag" created by costumed dancers from the Kehl Dance Studio, a school founded in Madison by Frederick W. Kehl in 1898. The Capi... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | "Living flag" created by the Kehl dancers on the steps of the third Wisconsin State Capitol. This close view permits better examination of the ornamentatio... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Ceremonial performers in traditional Indian costume pose near a steamboat. |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Dancers in elaborate costumes and huge headdresses perform onstage in "Glorifying the American Girl," a 1929 Paramount musical. The heads of some pit music... |
| Date: | 06 1945 |
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| Description: | Rosa Goldberg Katz and friends perform on stage at a camp for Jewish Holocaust survivors; Holsbybrunn, Sweden. |
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| Description: | Children acting in a living nativity scene at St. Michael's Home. The three children represent an angel, Joseph, and Mary, and are gathered around a manger... |
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| Description: | A man leads a procession with a bull carrying a long cart decorated with flowers. Women process along the sides of the cart and a band marches on the road ... |
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| Description: | Female students in Roman costumes stand outdoors near a wooded area while putting on a pageant at Clarion State Normal School. The school was established i... |
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| Description: | A crowd of students waving United States flags gathers on a field outside Clarion State Normal School. The school was established in 1873. Caption reads: "... |
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| Description: | View of an acrobatic team on a trapeze. The act, performed on a boardwalk at Midland Beach by the Flying Cromwells, is observed by a large gathering of peo... |
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