Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections
Filter: Categories of Wisconsin Historical Images
Filter: Subject of Actors
Filter: Subject of costume
| Date: | 10 21 1949 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Three actors in costume, portraying pre-Revolutionary New England characters in the drama, "The Devil's Disciple" by George Bernard Shaw. The actors, part ... |
| Date: | 10 21 1949 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Two actresses and one actor in costume, portraying pre-Revolutionary New England characters in the drama, "The Devil's Disciple" by George Bernard Shaw. Th... |
| Date: | 10 25 1949 |
|---|---|
| Description: | The Madison Blackfriars Guild is shown rehearsing a scene from Tennessee Willliams' play," The Glass Menagerie". Here, Laura (Patricia McKune) collapses a... |
| Date: | 1915 |
|---|---|
| Description: | A dramatic publicity still of Walter Long from the film Birth of a Nation. Long played Gus, a "renegrade negro," in blackface. |
| Date: | 08 15 1942 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Three people in costume behind a table. There is a man wearing a false beard a hat, holding a jug with three x's on it, a woman wearing a polka-dot blouse ... |
| Date: | 08 15 1942 |
|---|---|
| Description: | The Dogpathers booth, surrounded by a crowd of children. Text on the banners and other signs read: "Kickapoo Juice Penny Pitch" "Greendale Dogpathers Cause... |
| Date: | 08 15 1942 |
|---|---|
| Description: | A man with a gunny sack swung over his shoulder is dressed as a hillbilly with a wig and a fake beard. Next to him stands a man dressed as a preacher, and ... |
| Date: | 08 15 1942 |
|---|---|
| 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: | 1951 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Kent Taylor depicted as Boston Blackie from the television series of the same name. This photograph includes a signature. |
| Date: | 1951 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Boston Blackie (played by Kent Taylor), Mary Wesley (Lois Collier), and Inspector Faraday (Frank Orth), the cast of the television show Boston Blackie |
| Date: | 1917 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Art Acord as the Egyptian Kephren from the 1917 Fox production of Cleopatra. |
| Date: | 1927 |
|---|---|
| Description: | The Man (George O'Brien) suffers with guilt as he remembers his wedding vows, while the Wife (Janet Gaynor) comforts him, in a scene still from "Sunrise: A... |
| Date: | 1921 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Full-length studio publicity still of Richard Barthelmess as David Kinemon in Tol'able David (First National 1921). He is barefoot, wears rough clot... |
| Date: | 1952 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Edith Evans, Joan Greenwood, and Michael Denison in The Importance of Being Earnest (British Film Makers, 1952). Beatrice Dawson designed the costum... |
| Date: | 1922 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Ramon Novarro on a motion picture set dressed as a French army officer, perhaps from Mr. Barnes of New York. |
| Date: | 1922 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Publicity portrait of Ramon Novarro in costume for the role of Rupert of Hentzau in The Prisoner of Zenda (MGM 1922). Novarro autographed this Hoove... |
| Date: | 1914 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Scene still from the Vitagraph production Father's Flirtation. From left to right are Flora Finch, John Bunny, and Mary Anderson. Bunny wears a bold... |
| Date: | 1914 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Scene still from the Vitagraph production Father's Flirtation with John Bunny and Louise Beaudet. Bunny wears a boldly striped suit. |
| Date: | 1903 |
|---|---|
| Description: | The cast members Billie Burke, James Blakeley, and Maude Percival as characters from The School Girl. Billie Burke was a hit when she sang "Put M... |
| Date: | 1903 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Billie Burke, G.P. Huntley, and Norma Whalley as characters from The School Girl. Billie Burke was a hit when she sang "Put Me in My Little Canoe... |
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: