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| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Buster Keaton (right) appraises a costume for a Seneca Grape Juice TV commercial with J. Wolcott, the company's Vice President. |
| Date: | 12 1928 |
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| Description: | International Harvester employees standing around a Christmas tree and Santa Claus during an office party. Many of the workers are wearing party hats and s... |
| Date: | 09 26 1952 |
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| Description: | Cartoonist Walt Kelly at Central High School with a person dressed as one of his characters, Pogo. He is showing a drawing to a group of students. |
| Date: | 10 05 1944 |
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| Description: | Ruth Harris, acting curator of the Wisconsin Historical Society, is putting a man's coat from 1870 on a mannequin named Henry or Henrietta, if it is dresse... |
| Date: | 10 31 1950 |
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| Description: | At Lapham School, more than 800 costumed children and their parents attended one of the largest Halloween night parties held in Madison. Judges Roundy, and... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Eight page holiday card. The inside four pages are shorter and narrower, jogged to the top. Four views are shown. On the front is a "Boss," sitting at his ... |
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| Description: | Magician Ben Bergor of Madison performing a trick on stage. With him are his wife, who performed as Madame Alva, and an assistant. |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | Jodie "Butterbeans" Edwards and his wife "Suzy," a vaudeville comedy act. After Suzy died in 1962, Edwards continued to tour until the time of his death in... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | The Dizzy Sizzlers were a comedy band based in Watertown that performed throughout Wisconsin during the 1950s and 1960s. |
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| Description: | The Johnson Brothers, billed as "Clean, Fast, Swedish Comedy," was a musical comedy act based in Racine, Wisconsin. |
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| Description: | Professional magician Dick DeYoung of Sheboygan, Wisconsin, on a stage with three other people. DeYoung had over five decades of experience as a club and s... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Movie still from the United Artists movie "Patterns," featuring Van Heflin (playing Fred Staples) and Everett Sloane (playing Mr. Ramsey). |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Movie still from the Twentieth Century-Fox movie "The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit," featuring Gregory Peck (playing Tom Rath). He is smoking a cigarette a... |
| Date: | 08 17 1892 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of crowd gathered at the intersection of First and Main Streets to watch a calliope and chariot riders in a circus parade, probably the Ringl... |
| Date: | 08 17 1892 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a crowd gathered at the intersection of First and Main Streets to watch a bell wagon pass in a circus parade, probably the Ringling Brothe... |
| Date: | 03 03 1958 |
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| Description: | Howard Olson poses as "Chester LeRoy" with three of his wooden puppets: Mr. Zino, Cowboy Eddie, and Sandy McAndy. |
| Date: | 11 25 1976 |
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| Description: | Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. The Macy's storefront can be seen in the background. A yellow and brown International Harvester Scout 4x4 is towing a float... |
| Date: | 06 06 1953 |
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| Description: | Carl Sandburg posing with two of the guides at Wade house during his visit to the restored stagecoach inn for its dedication as a historic site. Speaking a... |
| Date: | 08 17 1892 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of large crowd of people watching elephants from the Ringling Brothers Circus turning the corner of First and Main Streets. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | James C. Springer of Cutler-Hammer Manufacturing Co. surrounded by members of the Milwaukee chapter of the National Secretaries' Association who had electe... |
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