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Crawford County Historical Pageant

Date: 05 08 1948
Description: Crawford County historical pageant performers came to Madison to announce the Crawford County historical pageant and Villa Louis opening at Prairie du Chie...
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Villa Louis Tea

Date: 05 21 1948
Description: Eudora Kolowinski, from Prairie du Chien, Miss Crawford County, and Bevery Johnston, Ferryville, Miss Villa Louis, in formal dress, stand in front of the p...
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Rai-Molay King and Queen

Date: 03 22 1954
Description: Portrait of Leland Briggs and Mary Lyon, king and queen of the spring semi-formal dance of the Order of De Molay and Order of Rainbow for Girls.
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"Rising Sun"

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Description: Waist-up outdoor portrait of a Native American man wearing strings of beads, a silver bracelet and a headdress. He is holding a bow and arrows.
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 359-369

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Description: Everybody was wonderful

Stars kept rising, pink and gold
Trailing threads of breathless music
barely out of reach
Hand to hand around the n...
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Julia Metcalf as Iphigenia

Date: 04 21 1876
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Julia Metcalf, in costume as Iphigenia from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's play Iphigenia in Tauris (Iphigenie auf Taur...
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Alice Tobey as Joan of Arc

Date: 04 21 1876
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Alice Tobey, in costume as Joan of Arc from Friedrich Schiller's The Maid of Orleans (Die Jungfrau von Orleans).
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Frank Cramer as Faust

Date: 04 21 1876
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Frank Cramer, in costume as Faust from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's play Faust.
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S.C. Gilbert as Don Caesar

Date: 04 21 1876
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of S.C. Gilbert, in costume as Don Caesar from Friedrich Schiller's play The Bride of Messina (Die Braut von Messina...
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Lina Martin as Marguerite

Date: 04 21 1876
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Lina Martin, in costume as Marguerite from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's play Faust.
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Lillian Carpenter as Mignon

Date: 04 21 1876
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Lillian Carpenter, in costume as Mignon from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's novel Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship (Wil...
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Georgiana Yates Cramer as Charlotte von Lengefeld

Date: 04 21 1876
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Georgiana Yates Cramer ("Mrs. Jno L Cramer," according to caption), in costume as Charlotte von Lengefeld, wife of Friedrich Sc...
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William Grant Fitch in Unidentified Costume

Date: 04 21 1876
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of William Grant Fitch, in costume.
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Mrs. Joseph Gilbert in Unidentified Costume

Date: 04 21 1876
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Mrs. Joseph Gilbert, in costume.
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Henry Liljencrantz as Wilhelm Meister

Date: 04 21 1876
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Henry Liljencrantz, in costume as Wilhelm Meister from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's novel Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
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Katharine F. Sherwood as Dorothea

Date: 04 21 1876
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Katharine F. Sherwood, in costume as Dorothea from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's poem Hermann and Dorothea.
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Grant Martin and Katharine Sherwood as Hermann and Dorothea

Date: 04 21 1876
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Grant Martin and Katharine Sherwood, in costume as Hermann and Dorothea from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's poem Hermann and D...

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