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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: | 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: | 1901 |
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| Description: | The buildings pictured made up what was called the Opera House Block, located at the intersection of Main and South Second Streets. The businesses housed t... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Interior of the Fuller Opera House looking over seats to the stage with 1,200 seats on a main floor, a second-level balcony, a third-level gallery, and ten... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Drawing of lower campus development of the University of Wisconsin Madison campus, designed by Arthur Peabody. Left to right along Lake Street are the Mus... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View from the stage of the interior of the Fuller Opera House. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | View of the front of the Opera House. Caption reads: "Opera House, Amherst, Wis." |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | View of the front of the Opera house. Caption reads: "Opera House, De Forest, Wis." |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | The Bijou Theater with a horse and carriage parked in front of it. There is a law office above the theater and a jeweler's store beside it. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | View looking southwest. Labeled on photograph: Post Office, Beebes Drugs, Opera House, Fair Store, Bank. Caption reads: "New Richmond, Wis. Looking S.W." |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of the interior of the Oshkosh Opera House, located on High Street. This opera house was built in 1883 and was renovated in the 1980s. |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | View of State Street looking east toward the Wisconsin State Capitol. The Grand Theatre is in the foreground, on the 200 block of State Street. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Davidson Theatre and Hotal at 135-137 Third Street. Signs for advertisements identify the buildings that are visible. Carriages and people are on the road... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of fourteen-story theatre building, with two red buildings on either side of it. On the street are people, horses, carriages, and trolleys. C... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | View from street of theatre and main entrance on corner of Wells and Water Streets. To the right is a building with a sign for Quaker Oats. On the left cor... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | View from the stage of the audience at the Grand Opera House. |
| 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: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Billie Burke raises a glass posed as the servant girl in the operetta The Dutchess of Dantzic which premiered in October 1903 at the Lyric Theatre i... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Billie Burke carries a tea tray as the servant girl in the operetta The Dutchess of Dantzic which premiered in October 1903 at the Lyric Theatre in ... |
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