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Scene from "Wac-Khaki" GI Revue

Date: 10 01 1943
Description: Scene from "Wac-Khaki" GI Revue: Sergeant Henry Hale Uhar and seven other soldiers dressed as "Hawaiian Maidens," on stage at the Wisconsin Memorial Union ...
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Scene from "Wac-Khaki" GI Revue

Date: 10 01 1943
Description: Scene from "Wac-Khaki" GI Review: Six WACs dressed in South Seas costumes, at the Wisconsin Memorial Union Theater.
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Pablo the Magician

Date: 06 17 1932
Description: Pablo the Magician holding a "Capital Times" newspaper in the lobby of the Orpheum Theatre. He is using the newspaper in his act with Fanchon and Marco's s...
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Publicity Still of Valeska Suratt for The Red Rose

Date: 1911
Description: Publicity still of Valeska Suratt for the 1911 Broadway production The Red Rose in which Suratt played Lola, a Parisian artist's model who falls in ...
Postcard

Billie Burke, James Blakeley, and Maude Percival

Date: 1903
Description: The cast members Billie Burke, James Blakeley, and Maude Percival as characters from The School Girl. Billie Burke was a hit when she sang "Put M...
Postcard

Billie Burke, G.P. Huntley, and Norma Whalley

Date: 1903
Description: Billie Burke, G.P. Huntley, and Norma Whalley as characters from The School Girl. Billie Burke was a hit when she sang "Put Me in My Little Canoe...
Postcard

Miss Billie Burke

Date: 1905
Description: Billie Burke wearing a lovely white dress and large hat decorated with roses in a nearly full length publicity postcard distributed in 1905 for her appeara...
Poster

Poster for "The Tourists"

Date: 1906
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 "...
Poster

Poster for "My Hometown Girl"

Date: 1915
Description: Color lithograph poster with portraits of John Hyams and Leila McIntyre with the caption "Perry J. Kelly offers John Hyams and Leila McIntyre." Bottom capt...
Poster

Poster for "Rollicking Shannon"

Date: 1912
Description: Color lithograph poster for "Rollicking Shannon." Across the top the caption reads “John O’Donnell, The Gifted Actor and Tenor”/Management Al. McLean." The...
Poster

Poster for "A Black Sheep"

Date: 1894
Description: Color lithograph poster. Top caption "Hoyt's 'A Black Sheep'/Hoyt & McKee, Proprietors." Image shows women trying to keep Buffalo Bill-type cowboy from tak...
Poster

Poster for "A Trip to Chinatown"

Date: 1891
Description: Color lithograph poster. At top “Hoyt’s "A Trip to Chinatown" with insert at center "From Hoyt's Madison Square Theatre New York" and another insert at rig...
Book or Pamphlet

The Cradle Will Rock

Date: 1938
Description: Page five of the playbill for performances of The Cradle Will Rock at the Windsor Theatre. The page credits Blitzstein, Orson Welles, and three of the cast...
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Madison Theater Guild's Carousel

Date: 04 03 1961
Description: Two men at podiums watch a rehearsal. At upper left is Marvin Foster, musical director and orchestra leader. At lower right is Al Barraclough, managing dir...

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