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Buster Keaton and Seneca Grape Juice Executive

Date: 1965
Description: Buster Keaton (right) appraises a costume for a Seneca Grape Juice TV commercial with J. Wolcott, the company's Vice President.
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Blackfriars Production of "You Can't Take It With You"

Date: 05 26 1941
Description: Blackfriars Guild theater group cast on stage for "You Can't Take It With You."
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Blackfriars Production of "Fog Over Mars"

Date: 03 24 1941
Description: Group portrait of 11 cast members of the Blackfriars Guild on stage in "Fog Over Mars."
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Blackfriars Production of "Black Orchid"

Date: 01 27 1941
Description: Group portrait of cast on stage of "Brother Orchid," Blackfriars Guild theater group.
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Blackfriars Production of "Stage Door"

Date: 12 02 1940
Description: Group portrait of cast of "Stage Door" on stage, presented by Blackfriars Guild theater group.
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Scene from Play "Stage Door"

Date: 12 02 1940
Description: Scene from the play "Stage Door," presented by Blackfriars Theater Guild.
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Cast of "Bolt Your Houses"

Date: 10 13 1940
Description: Cast of "Bolt Your Houses" on stage in a scene from the play.
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Cast & Staff of "Bolt Your Houses"

Date: 10 13 1940
Description: Group portrait of cast and staff of "Bolt Your Houses" on stage.
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Dane and Arthur in Lobby of Park Hotel

Date: 11 30 1930
Description: Karl Dane and George K. Arthur, Hollywood movie stars, standing in the lobby at the Park Hotel. Left to right: Harold S. Knudson, assistant manager of the ...
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"Disraeli" Play Cast

Date: 12 11 1929
Description: Cast of play "Disraeli" on stage at Hillel Foundation with director Agatha Karlen (Mrs. John Guy Fowlkes).
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Dennis Morgan

Date: 08 08 1945
Description: Hollywood singer and actor, Dennis Morgan, in Madison to visit patients at Truax Field. He is on USO tour as a representative of the Hollywood Victory comm...
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Sorority Alumnae Play Cast

Date: 12 06 1948
Description: Two alumnae members of the Madison chapter of Phi Beta, speech and music sorority, rehearsing for their part in the "Old English Revels" for members and th...
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"Romance of the Reaper" Film Still

Date: 1929
Description: Scene from the film "Romance of the Reaper" showing the building of the first practical reaper on the McCormick farm in Virginia. Actors playing the parts ...
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Will N. Wells

Date: 02 02 1949
Description: Will N. Wells, of the Wells Printing Company, celebrating his eighty-fourth birthday with friends. Left to right: John G. MacFarland, an actor; J.J. McMana...
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"Jo Anderson" in Forge Shop Scene

Date: 1929
Description: A production still for the Fox Hearst film "Romance of the Reaper". The film was produced by International Harvester at Walnut Grove to celebrate the Reape...
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"Cyrus McCormick" and "Jo Anderson" in Forge Scene

Date: 1929
Description: A production still for the Fox Hearst film "Romance of the Reaper". The film was produced by International Harvester at Walnut Grove to celebrate the Reape...
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Gloria Link

Date: 08 17 1950
Description: Gloria Link placed second for outstanding performance in the Wisconsin Players' summer season. This was according to a poll of the playbill's directors con...
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Academy Award-Winning Butcher

Date: 03 11 1956
Description: Actor Ernest Borgnine, who was nominated for an Academy Award for his role as a butcher in "Marty", reenacted his role for a publicity photograph at a groc...
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Madison Theater Guild Actor Tries on Costume

Date: 02 26 1952
Description: An actor from the Madison Theater Guild tries on a costume.
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Danny Kaye

Date: 1960
Description: During a visit to Japan, Danny Kaye, then one of the best known comedians and actors, prompted a typical response from Martha Brown, the wife of Cecil Brow...

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