Date: | 1921 |
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Description: | White Studio portrait of vaudevillian Bert Williams. |
Date: | 1920 |
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Description: | Two men posing for a studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop. James Gorman, standing, has a pipe in his mouth; the seated man holding a guitar is un... |
Date: | 1902 |
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Description: | George Walker, Adah Overton Walker, and Bert Williams link arms and dance the cakewalk in the first Broadway musical to be written and performed by African... |
Date: | 1912 |
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Description: | Bert Williams (right) and Leon Errol (left) are a cabbie and his fare from the 1912 Ziegfield Follies. The cab is drawn by a rumpled pantomime horse. Behin... |
Date: | 02 22 1915 |
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Description: | African American tenant farmers assembled for a barbecue. The tenants worked for Louis Frank Sessions who is in the front row, third from the left (wearing... |
Date: | 1914 |
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Description: | African-American school band assembled in a lecture hall at the Piney Woods Country Life School with Agricultural Extension Department workers and charts i... |
Date: | 05 25 1931 |
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Description: | Wan Wan San Chinese acrobats and Harris and Van, from the Orpheum Theatre, wearing straw hats, in front of Crescent Clothing Store, 27 N. Pinckney Street. ... |
Date: | 10 27 1930 |
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Description: | F&W Grand store window, located at 15 W. Main Street, displays 33 rpm records, jewelry, and advertising for Amos n' Andy in the film "Check and Double Chec... |
Date: | 10 12 1929 |
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Description: | Ten musicians that make up the Broadway Gardens Orchestra posing on stage with their instruments. |
Date: | 1950 |
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Description: | The components of a necklace come together under the skilled hands of a jewelry maker. |
Date: | 1929 |
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Description: | Re-enactors demonstrating a replica of the first reaper built by Cyrus Hall McCormick in 1831. The man raking at the back of the reaper appears to be playi... |
Date: | 1929 |
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Description: | Re-enactors demonstrating a replica of the first reaper built by Cyrus Hall McCormick in 1831. The man raking at the back of the reaper appears to be playi... |
Date: | 08 23 1946 |
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Description: | Aunt Lily Richmond (b.1862), right, with Ollie Greene Lewis. |
Date: | 08 23 1946 |
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Description: | Aunt Lily Richmond sang African American spirituals for song collector Helene Stratman-Thomas. Richmond came to Grant County Wisconsin with her parents, fr... |
Date: | 1964 |
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Description: | Governor Warren P. Knowles reaches up to touch the hand of a girl at the Lincoln Memorial on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The girl seated, c... |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | "Racine County War Veterans Living and Dead." Composite of small oval head and shoulders portraits, consisting of about 100 Union soldiers, all identified.... |
Date: | 12 17 1982 |
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Description: | Operetta Scene - The Hansberry-Sands Theater Company performed a scene from "Black Nativity" at St. Agnes Church, 4055 N. 25th St. |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of an African American child (probably a girl) wearing a white dress. Text written on the back of the photog... |
Date: | 02 13 1947 |
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Description: | Five drum majors of the Four Lakes Council (Madison area) Boy Scout Drum and Bugle Corps. Left to right: Charles Harris, Charles Butler, James Berray, Stan... |
Date: | 1978 |
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Description: | Author Alex Haley and actor LeVar Burton visit the grave of Haley's ancestor, the slave Kunte Kinte, in Spottsylvania County, Virginia. In the television ... |
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