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| Date: | 12 1927 |
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| Description: | "This scene can be dated by the homemade calendar under the wall clock. It is December of 1927. Farmers were prospering at that time, as was the rest of th... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Color lithograph poster advertising the musical "The Cow-boy Girl" depicting Pa trying to talk to Ma through her ear horn. Kilroy and Britton were the prod... |
| Date: | 07 12 1970 |
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| Description: | A woman in a polka-dotted suit chats with two men wearing wildly-patterned slacks and sport coats at a summer party. A man plays drums in the background. |
| Date: | 06 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising for a concert by Ike and Tina Turner at the Dane County Coliseum, in Madison, Wisconsin, June 26th, 1971. Features a picture of Tina Tur... |
| Date: | 1867 |
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| Description: | Lithograph poster for Augustin Daly's 1867 play Under the Gaslight, depicting Snorkey the one-armed Civil War veteran tied to the railroad tracks, w... |
| Date: | 03 29 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising a performance by B.B. King at Dewey's. Features a photograph of B.B. King with a guitar, presumably at a performance. The poster was des... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Rock trio, "The Ox," performing on stage. The guitarist and bassist are on an elevated platform next to a stack of amplifiers, while the drummer is set up ... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Rock trio, "The Ox," performing on stage. The guitarist and bassist are on an elevated platform next to a stack of amplifiers while the drummer is set up o... |
| Date: | 06 1942 |
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| Description: | Men in a three piece orchestra, consisting of a guitar, a violin, and a glass jug, posing for a photograph aboard the United Fruit Company's S.S. Santa ... |
| Date: | 03 1945 |
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| Description: | Surviving crew members of the USS Franklin watching an amateur vaudeville on their hanger deck, seven says after their disaster. The USS Franklin... |
| Date: | 1857 |
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| Description: | Black and white lithograph on paper. Title over image of minstrel company. Inserts of Lon and Billy Morris, left and right. Large image of man papering sto... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Color lithograph on paper. "James A. Herne in his Great Play" upper left, title and director upper right. Scene from play with Martin and Nathaniel Berry c... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Color lithograph on paper. "James J. Corbett in His New Play A Naval Cadet" across top, Charles T. Vincent's name beneath title upper left and "Direction o... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Marc Blitzstein in U.S. Army Air Corps uniform at a piano, singing into a BBC microphone. Caption on reverse of image reads "London, 1943". |
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| Description: | George M. Cohan and James Graham hold the same pose next to each other, with Cohen looking back toward Graham. Graham plays a younger Cohan. There is a lar... |
| Date: | 03 30 1979 |
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| Description: | Two women in costumes posing and stretching out their arms towards the camera. Caption reads: "Phyllis Bickham (left) and Amber Kelly will alternate in the... |
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| Description: | Quarter-length portrait of Arthur Miller smoking a pipe while at a rehearsal for the play "After the Fall." |
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| Description: | Musician Steve Miller during a concert. His guitar is on a strap around his neck and he is gripping a microphone. |
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