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| 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: | 04 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster announcing a performance of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," at Broom Street Theater in Madison, Wisconsin. Performed by the Broom Street ... |
| Date: | 04 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster for Broom Street Theater presentation of "April Fool," including "Everything You've Always Wanted to Know About Sex," by Dr. Reuben, "The Difficult ... |
| Date: | 04 1971 |
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| Description: | Milwaukee Repertory Theater poster advertising for a presentation of "The Liar," written by Carlo Goldoni. Event took place at the Wisconsin Union Theater,... |
| Date: | 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising for Genesis IV, a showcase of short films presented at the Madison Art Center. Features a colorful pop comic image of figures from movie... |
| Date: | 04 1972 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising for a performance of Samuel Beckett's play "Endgame" at University of Wisconsin Madison's-Union South theater. Features a crude drawing ... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Poster publicizing Antonia: A Portrait of a Woman, a film by Judy Collins and Jill Godmilow. Features an image of Antonia with several mechanical apparatus... |
| Date: | 07 1973 |
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| Description: | Poster publicizing a performance of "The Man Who Came to Dinner," a comedy by Moss Hart and George Kaufman, held at the Robert Gard Theater in Spring Green... |
| Date: | 10 1972 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising for the world premiere of "Childhood II: A Nude Encounter," a documentary film at the Stage Door Theatre, part of the Orpheum in Madison... |
| Date: | 01 21 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising an Anti-U.S. Military Ball, held at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Memorial Union. Features a woman with a gun slung over her sho... |
| Date: | 03 24 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising the Wisconsin Players production of Tennessee Williams' one act plays Suddenly Last Summer and Something Unspoken. Sudd... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | A poster depicting a collection of news articles regarding the Federal Theatre. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Color lithograph on paper. Across top in caps "A splendid scenic revival of the greatest of American dramas." Title runs beneath. Scene from play in which ... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Color lithograph poster. Title runs across top and the poster features a portrait of Dan Russell, whose name runs across the bottom. The famous comedian... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Color lithograph. The top banner reads: "C.S. Primrose presents the musical comedy farce 'Don't Lie to Your Wife'." Below this, upper right, is the author'... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Color lithograph. The upper caption reads "Child Slaves of New York." The image shows a stereotypical Middle Eastern man restraining a white male in unifor... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Color lithograph. Across the top the caption reads "The Colonial Theatre Company Presents" and below that in much larger letters is "Etienne Girardot" foll... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Color Lithograph. In a caption box at top is the banner "Sam. S. & Lee Schubert (inc) Offer the Merry Musical Comedy" followed in larger block letters by "... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Color lithograph. In a caption box at top is the banner "Sam. S. & Lee Schubert (inc) Offer the Merry Musical Comedy" followed in larger block letters by "... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | A poster for "R.U.R.: Rossum's Universal Robots" at the Garrick Theatre. |
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