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| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | A crowded scene still from "Intolerance": Christ at the wedding at Cana with Howard Gaye as Christ, and with Bessie Love and George Walsh as the bride and ... |
| Date: | 04 28 1935 |
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| Description: | First Methodist Church, 203 Wisconsin Avenue. Easter pageant "At Dawning," with a large group of actors in costume in a scene on "stage" in the chancel. |
| Date: | 04 20 1935 |
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| Description: | First Methodist Church, 203 Wisconsin Avenue. Easter pageant, with large group of actors in costume in a scene on "stage" in the chancel. |
| Date: | 02 22 1932 |
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| Description: | The John Bell Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution present a tableau of Martha Washington's life at the Hotel Loraine for the bicentennial o... |
| Date: | 11 22 1931 |
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| Description: | Aunt Mary putting on a "Corn-top Bread" lunch in the Orpheum Theatre N.U.A. room. Seated left to right: Dave Genaro, Lizzy Wilson, Tom Harris, Annie Hart, ... |
| Date: | 04 20 1944 |
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| Description: | Highlight of the entertainment at the final dancing party of the Junior Cotillion club of Wisconsin High School was the Frank Sinatra act put on by members... |
| 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 ... |
| Date: | 12 07 1948 |
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| Description: | Three high school students dressed as Joseph, Mary and the Angel Gabriel, rehearsing for a Christmas play to be presented at the Edgewood High School audit... |
| Date: | 02 02 1949 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 08 15 1942 |
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| Description: | A mock shotgun wedding at a Civilian Defense Rally, with a solider marrying a woman with a man dressed as a country priest presiding. |
| Date: | 04 20 1922 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "A pause in the day's occupation--'Dick' Barthelmess's muscles are called more in to play in this work than in making a round of the eig... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Cabinet card photograph by Scholl of Philadelphia of the actors Maurice Barrymore and Georgie Drew who married in December 1879. Successful actors, their c... |
| Date: | 07 22 1953 |
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| Description: | Portraying Diamond Jim Brady and Diamond Lil at the Blackhawk Country Club Gay 90's party are Robert and Harriet Narowetz. They are being served a drink by... |
| Date: | 10 18 1926 |
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| Description: | Original caption attached to the print: "Emil Jannings German movie star arrived today. Emil Jannings, German actor who was born in Brooklyn in 1886 return... |
| Date: | 10 18 1926 |
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| Description: | Original caption attached to the print: "Emil Jannings German actor arrived today. Emil Jannings, German actor who was born in Brooklyn in 1886 returned to... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Film still exterior of a group of people at a picnic. A man is holding a bear with a chain in the center of the image. Booths can be seen in background, on... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Film still of a group outdoors at a Fourth of July picnic. A man is chasing a small pig in the center of a group of people. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Film still of two women, one extending her hand to a man, another man is standing by; a female servant in blackface is in the background. |
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