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| Date: | 10 05 1953 |
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| Description: | Depicting Florence Nightingale at the time of the Crimean war of 1853, a costumed Marie Timlin tends to "wounded soldier" Harold Hermanson. The enactment i... |
| Date: | 10 06 1953 |
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| Description: | Ardis Kirkpatrick, a private secretary to Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Grover Broadfoot, is wearing the costume of an 1800's typist while using a Sholes... |
| Date: | 10 06 1953 |
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| Description: | Nellie A. Brown, night supervisor of nurses, represents a modern nurse as she is pushing a patient in a wheelchair. Posing as the patient is Geneva F. McKa... |
| Date: | 10 05 1953 |
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| Description: | Joy Morrison poses as a worker in a drugstore during the 1800's. Pharmaceutical items on the wall were used in Wisconsin drugstores during the first 50 yea... |
| Date: | 10 06 1953 |
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| Description: | Joy Morrison dresses in costume while working in an old-time drug store at the Wisconsin Historical Society Museum. The pharmaceutical items were used in W... |
| Date: | 10 06 1953 |
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| Description: | Seated at her desk is Lorraine C. Jones, secretary to T.F. Wisniewski, a director at the State Board of Health. She is portraying a "modern" secretary as a... |
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| Description: | The Harmonicats were a popular jazz harmonica trio, originally known as the Harmonica Madcats, that was formed in 1944. The original musicians were Murad (... |
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| Description: | Magicians Dave (left) and Pauline Coleman performing their famous "Hindu Torture Board" trick using an anvil on a board full of nails positioned on the abd... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Harry Houdini, the well-known escape artist, was born in Budapest, Hungary and raised in Appleton, Wisconsin. At the time of his immigration his name was s... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length publicity portrait of renowned escape artist Harry Houdini. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait of the renowned escape artist Harry Houdini. |
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| Description: | Formal publicity portrait of magician Ben Bergor of Madison performing one of his sleight of hand tricks with lighted cigarettes. Bergor was billed as the ... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Publicity photograph of a woman hanging blackout curtains, with the assistance of her young daughter. The photograph was taken to provide illustration for ... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | World War II permeated every aspect of life in America during World War II, and nothing was wasted that could contribute to the war effort. Here a young b... |
| Date: | 05 31 1954 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Robert L. Sakrison, chairman of publicity for the Federated Garden Clubs flower show, arranging a bouquet of tulips. |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Leonore Ulric as the American Indian girl Alona, "the half-breed daughter of a wealthy white man" (Moving Picture World 8/19/1916, p. 1268). She is in the ... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Full-length publicity portrait of Leonore Ulric who played Alona in "Her Own People." |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | In Algiers, Hafsa (played by Lenore Ulric) is on her knees in supplication to her father, Sidi Malik (Herschell Mayall). The caption typed on the back of t... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Sitting cross-legged on the floor, the Algerian girl Hafsa (played by Lenore Ulric) is offered jewelry and fine fabrics. Also in the scene, there appear to... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | The Algerian girl Hafsa (played by Lenore Ulric) has joined hands with Zorah (Estelle Allen). Behind them are a servant and, apparently Lucille Ward (as Le... |
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