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Studio Tableaux of Martha Washington's Tea Party

Date: 1890
Description: Tableaux of "Martha Washington's Tea Party" enacted by Mrs. Gesell and friends. Left to right: Mrs. Schaettle, Mrs. Kempter, (the younger) Mrs. Fritz Laue,...
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Ada Lois James with Rifle

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Description: Ada [& friend] Charlie. Ada is pretending to shoot an apple from the head of her friend Charlie, who is posing kneeling with his arms folded. There is a pa...
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Group of Girls

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Description: A group of girls, possibly in a school pageant.
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Crater Players at Blue Mounds

Date: 06 25 1948
Description: Performers Olaf Ussing, leaning on a cane, and Carole Branley rehearsing for the presentation of "The Drunkard", a Crater Players production. They are in f...
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Interior Design Demonstration

Date: 07 14 1928
Description: Home economics demonstration about interior design for the women attending an Agricultural Extension Station Day.
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Cygnet Films

Date: 10 1968
Description: Bill Duren (in the background), owner of Cygnet Films, talks with a production assistant during shooting for a training film. Cygnet Films, which was based...
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Ben Bergor Performs

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Description: Magician Ben Bergor of Madison performing a trick on stage. With him are his wife, who performed as Madame Alva, and an assistant.
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Dick DeYoung

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Description: Professional magician Dick DeYoung of Sheboygan, Wisconsin, on a stage with three other people. DeYoung had over five decades of experience as a club and s...
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Country Club Ladies Performing

Date: 1962
Description: Lady members of the Brynwood Country Club performing a musical skit at the club's opening luncheon. They are concluding a historical “fashion” show, wearin...
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Production still for "Foreign Correspondent"

Date: 1940
Description: Members of the cast and crew of the film "Foreign Correspondent" sitting and standing on the set.
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Laraine Day

Date: 1940
Description: Laraine Day is helped by a man on the set of the film "Foreign Correspondent." She is wearing a dress and is soaking wet. She is either smiling or gritting...
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Joel McCrea and Laraine Day

Date: 1940
Description: Laraine Day takes a photograph of Joel McCrea; both are smiling. Both are dressed very nicely. In the background a crew member looks at them from a raised ...
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Theresa Lioness Club Fashion Show

Date: 10 17 1990
Description: On Wednesday, Oct. 17, 1990, the Theresa Lioness Club sponsored their 3rd annual fashion show. Amidst a festive setting on stage and G & Z's Hall in Theres...
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Jim Wiseman in Fashion Show

Date: 10 17 1990
Description: Jim Wiseman, husband of Louise Wiseman, drew some laughs when he appeared on stage at the Lioness Club Fashion Show. Wiseman wore a checked robe and boxers...
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Women on Stage

Date: 1916
Description: Seven women on stage, apparently in a scene from an amateur theatrical performance, wearing conventional street clothes.
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Studio Portrait of European American Woman

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Description: Three-quarter length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of an unidentified European American woman posed sitting. She is wearing a plaid skirt,...
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Studio Group Portrait of European American Children

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Description: Studio portrait of three European American children. The boy is posing sitting on the left on a stone wall, with his left arm resting on the wall, and is w...
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Studio Portrait of European American Couple

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of an unidentified man posing standing on the left and a woman is posing standing on the right.
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Studio Portrait of European American Couple

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of an unidentified man posing sitting on the left and a woman posing standing on the right.
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Studio Portrait of Two European American Women

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Description: Studio Portrait of two unidentified women posing sitting in front of a woman posing standing in the center behind them.

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