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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A photograph of Fredric March as a child (on the right) performing in a church pageant with another child. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Bert Williams (right) and Leon Errol (left) are a cabbie and his fare from the 1912 Ziegfield Follies. The cab is drawn by a rumpled pantomime horse. Behin... |
| Date: | 04 25 1925 |
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| Description: | Ed Wynn is shown in his dressing room applying makeup at the mirror. Reflected in the mirror left to right are Wynn's manager Fred R. Zweifal, Wynn's valet... |
| Date: | 12 27 1929 |
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| Description: | Verticle interior view of Eastwood Theatre featuring staircase and newel post with statue of Mercury. |
| Date: | 11 22 1929 |
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| Description: | View from street of the facade of the Capitol Theatre with marquee advertising "Harold Lloyd," "Welcome Danger," and "His first all talking comedy thrille... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Davison Theater. Caption reads: "Davison Theatre, Beaver Dam, Wis." |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Somewhat out-of-focus exterior view of City Hall from the Capitol grounds. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Caption reads: "'Majestic Theatre' and Main Street West from Sixth, la Crosse, Wis." |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the opera house with several men standing near its entrance. Caption reads: "Grand Opera House, Stevens Point, Wis." |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View of Water Street, looking west from the corner of Judgement Street. Businesses include a market, a tailor, and an ice cream parlor. The handwritten tex... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of fourteen-story theatre at an angle from across the street. Several other buildings are on the left and right, pedestrians are on the sidew... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Exterior of the Memorial Union Theater on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. There is a railing with steps in the foreground, leading to a paved w... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Orpheum Theatre at 113 Monona Avenue (now called Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard). There are several automobiles parked in front of ... |
| 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: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "Mae Murray, who just recently completed 'Circe,' as she looked when she appeared on the stage. Miss Murray started her career as a dance... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | An early waist-up publicity portrait of Valeska Suratt sitting on a chair. She wears an intricate lace dress and a large hat covered with feathers. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Street scene showing a horse-drawn bus and pedestrians on a street. Signs read: "Music Hall, 1885" "Adair Brothers" and "E.H. Mobley Millinery." |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Broadway star Lenore Ulric, dressed and made-up for the stage, listens to an early portable radio receiver. |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | W.C. Fields in a publicity still from the Broadway show "Poppy". He is seated in an ornate chair and is wearing a top hat, checkered pants and spats. |
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