Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections
Filter: Categories of Wisconsin Historical Images
Filter: Subject of Work
Filter: Subject of actors
| Date: | 1922 |
|---|---|
| Description: | The blacksmith's assistant (played by Buster Keaton) files his nails as his employer (Joe Roberts) looms over him in a scene still from the 1922 silent com... |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | Actors portraying I.M. Singer and his friend George Zieber with the first sewing machine. |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | Actors portray I.M. Singer and George Zieber examining an early sewing machine. |
| Date: | 01 05 1961 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Scenes from "Here We Go Again", an amateur variety show put on as entertainment for the 1961 Twelfth Night party at Nakoma School. Edwin Steul, left, and S... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 03 24 1950 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Front cover of a farewell dinner menu from the Italian Line ship Saturnia, with two Commedia dell' Arte characters: Tartaglia, a rotund figure who w... |
| Date: | 03 24 1950 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Front cover of a farewell dinner menu from the Italian Line ship Saturnia, with two Commedia dell' Arte characters: Pantalone, a black masked figure... |
| Date: | 03 24 1950 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Front cover of a farewell dinner menu from the Italian Line ship Saturnia, with three Commedia dell' Arte characters: Corallina, who wears a black m... |
| Date: | 03 24 1950 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Front cover of a farewell dinner menu from the Italian Line ship Saturnia, with three Commedia dell' Arte characters: Stenterello, who wears a jacke... |
| Date: | 04 20 2012 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Group portrait of the cast, crew and extended family of David Marcou for the Pulitzer-nominated play "Remembering Davy Crockett," at the end of the world d... |
| Date: | 1942 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Alfred Lunt watching as farm workers pitch grain into a thresher on the Ten Chimneys farm. Two men at the end of a chute collect the separated grain in sac... |
| Date: | 1943 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Eric von Stroheim (left) and Martin Kosleck (right) sit in the rear seat of a military vehicle in a production still for "The North Star." A technician sta... |
| Date: | 10 13 1940 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Charlie Chaplin meets the press at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York on October 13, 1940, to promote "The Great Dictator." About fifteen reporters stand or s... |
| Date: | 1981 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Gate fold front covers and interior of dinner menu from The Backstage, with a line drawing of film actors Greta Garbo and John Gilbert on the front cover p... |
| Date: | 04 17 1957 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Staged visit to a divorce attorney in his office by a married couple. The husband is acted by Francis Fay, and posing as the wife, Miriam Leifer, vice-pres... |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | Julie Harris, Boris Karloff, Kermit Bloomgarden and his wife Virginia Kaye are standing near a table at the Thespian Theatre Club Award dinner. Harris and ... |
| Date: | 10 20 1953 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Typewritten letter from Ring Lardner, Jr to Howard Da Silva after Lardner saw the play "The World of Sholom Aleichem." Lardner praises the production and t... |
| Date: | 10 13 1940 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Charlie Chaplin sits at the far end of a long restaurant table at the Waldorf Astoria talking to ten reporters. A waiter serves drinks. |
| Date: | 10 13 1940 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Charlie Chaplin talking to nine reporters sitting at the end of a long restaurant table at the Waldorf Astoria in New York. Behind them, a waiter is watchi... |
| Date: | 10 13 1940 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Charlie Chaplin talking to fifteen reporters sitting on upholstered chairs around him in a meeting room at the Waldorf Astoria in New York. A small coffee ... |
If you didn't find the material you searched for, our Library Reference Staff can help.
Call our reference desk at 608-264-6535 or email us at: