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| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | Gloria Peebles (left), animal trainer, Kay Bliss (right), assistant, and their Busy B's canine act performers (11 dogs and 2 monkeys) in front of Internati... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Lionel Barrymore directs John Gilbert and Norma Shearer in a scene from "Romeo and Juliet" for MGM's Hollywood Revue. |
| 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: | 1922 |
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| Description: | View of an outdoor pageant tableau at the College of Mount Saint Vincent, founded in 1847 by the Sisters of Charity of New York. Students stand in a wooded... |
| Date: | 1982 |
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| Description: | The band Spooner performs at Headliners nightclub on University Avenue. Band members included Butch Vig (drums), Duke Erikson (guitar), Dave Benton (guitar... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A group of adults and children at an impromptu concert held outdoors during Freedom Summer outside of the Freedom School at Priest Creek Baptist Church. L... |
| Date: | 08 03 1946 |
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| Description: | Eddie Cantor standing on stage wearing blackface. He is holding on to a microphone, and is facing towards the left. In the background audience members are ... |
| Date: | 08 03 1946 |
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| Description: | Eddie Cantor, in blackface, on stage at Centurama Evening Performance. In the background men and women are sitting at a long table in front of a large ima... |
| Date: | 04 06 1958 |
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| Description: | A full stage view of Madison Theater Guild's production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "The King and I", at East High School. |
| Date: | 05 10 1958 |
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| Description: | "Almost 4000 high school musicians came to Madison for the state solo - ensemble festival, and 20 of them went home with scholarships for the 1958 Summer M... |
| Date: | 07 24 1958 |
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| Description: | Mary-Kate Lorenz, left, directs Anna Lee Henningsen, seated, Lois Suomi, kneeling, and Ann Mannering, standing, in the spanking scene from Youth Summer the... |
| Date: | 07 20 1960 |
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| Description: | Forty girls, ages 8-16, participate in Madison's first consolidated children's fine arts program sponsored by the Y.W.C.A. Ann Hoffman of the Y.W.C.A. staf... |
| Date: | 12 20 1960 |
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| Description: | Montrose school district students from Dane & Green County entertain residents at the Dane County Hospital and Home in Verona. The children performed a Chr... |
| Date: | 07 06 1956 |
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| Description: | View of an outdoor performance with a tree on the left, and a brick building in the background. Two men in suits are attempting to push a third man into a ... |
| Date: | 07 07 1989 |
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| Description: | View of a stage rehearsal. A man is standing and pointing at a man who is lying on the stage. A woman is grabbing the standing man's arm. Caption reads: "S... |
| Date: | 04 06 1989 |
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| Description: | A boy in a costume is posing with his arms crossed wih his hands on his knees. Caption reads: "A costume carnival Pupils at Maple Dale Elementary S... |
| Date: | 08 09 1956 |
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| Description: | Four women posing in front of bookshelves, looking at stacks of publications. Caption reads: "The Theater Guild committee met Wednesday at the Unive... |
| Date: | 02 14 1961 |
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| Description: | Overhead view of a stage. Three women are reclining on the set to the upper left. A man is standing in the lower right, gesturing toward them. Caption read... |
| Date: | 12 06 1962 |
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| Description: | A woman standing among several marionettes, demonstrating the strings and control bars to another woman and two children. Caption reads: "Two youngsters... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Text reads: "Chief Silvertongue and Princess He-Nook-Gink-Sha." One of 16 postcard images inside of a souvenir view folder. A Native American woman is play... |
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