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Christopher Columbus Play

Date: 11 28 1933
Description: Four children in costume surround a cardboard cutout of a sailing ship for a play about Christopher Columbus. The play was performed at Longfellow School, ...
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Classroom Cave People

Date: 02 27 1984
Description: A sixth grade class dresses up as cave people to experience the likeness of living in pre-historic times.
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Holy Redeemer School Play

Date: 05 20 1945
Description: Students play cast in costume on stage at Holy Redeemer Catholic School 140 West Johnson Street.
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St. James School Play

Date: 11 22 1944
Description: Group portrait of thirteen players in costume, cast in a play at St. James School, 1204 St. James Court.
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St. James Class Play

Date: 05 03 1942
Description: Group portrait of play cast on stage for St. James Catholic School, 1204 St. James Court.
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St. James Class Play

Date: 05 03 1942
Description: Group portrait of play cast, St. James Catholic School, 1204 St. James Court.
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West High School Production "Our Town"

Date: 11 14 1944
Description: West High School student production of "Our Town" showing a family scene at breakfast, left to right: Mary Snee, Virginia Baldwin, Barbara Burrell, and Erw...
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West High School Production of "Our Town"

Date: 11 14 1944
Description: West High School student production of "Our Town" with two actresses and one actor on a ladder. Left to right: Virginia Baldwin, Joel Salter, and Jerry Eri...
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West High School Production "Our Town"

Date: 11 14 1944
Description: West High School student production of "Our Town" with Kenneth Paine, as narrator.
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West High School Production "Our Town"

Date: 11 14 1944
Description: West High School student production of "Our Town" during the drug store scene, with Kenneth Paine, druggist, Virginia Baldwin, and Joel Salter.
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East High School Play Cast

Date: 11 22 1944
Description: Members of the East High School play cast for "Tomorrow the World" a story of a Nazi boy in the United States, standing left to right: Robert Cnare, the Ge...
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Lowell School Christmas Party

Date: 12 14 1944
Description: Eight girls (on the left side from floor to harp) Ruth Quale, Mary Fess, Patricia Kinney, Elaine Tripalin, (girl in the center) Carlene Stoker, (right side...
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East High School Play Cast

Date: 03 20 1947
Description: A scene from "The Forest Princ,e, an operetta set in 16th century Russia, which was presented by the East High School a cappella choir and the concert orch...
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Lowell School Dancers

Date: 01 07 1949
Description: Lowell School students staged a demonstration of "Music and Dance" for educators attending the mid-winter music clinic at the University of Wisconsin. Dori...
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Wisconsin Union Theater Centennial Play, "River Boat"

Date: 03 02 1949
Description: The Wisconsin Players presented "River Boat," an original centennial drama written by Robert Gard of Madison and Dore Reich of Milwaukee at the Memorial Un...
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Lapham School Halloweem Party

Date: 10 31 1950
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...
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Girls Around the Maypole with Flowers

Date: 1913
Description: Group of girls holding fabricated flowers around a maypole at an annual school festival in Belwood Park. A large group of fellow students and teachers look...
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East HIgh School Actors

Date: 10 26 1953
Description: Students acting out a scene in East High School's fall play, "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court." Left to right: Mary Levenick, Roger Alexander...
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Madison Edgewood High School Play

Date: 01 02 1954
Description: Students at Madison Edgewood High School act out a scene from the play "The Marriage Proposal". Peggy Forster and Michael Kretschman are in the scene and d...
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East High School Masquerade Party

Date: 02 24 1954
Description: Diane Horalek, Harold Peckham, and John Spaeni take part in a masquerade party for East High School seniors on Saturday, February 24, 1954.

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