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| Date: | 08 19 1887 |
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| Description: | Cabinet card of a group portrait of four men in front of a painted backdrop. Two are dressed in male formal attire, with top hats. The other men are dresse... |
| Date: | 03 1945 |
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| Description: | Surviving crew members of the USS Franklin watching an amateur vaudeville on their hanger deck, seven says after their disaster. The USS Franklin... |
| Date: | 04 19 1954 |
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| Description: | One of a series of scenes from the dramatic production "Down Memory Lane", presented in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Madison ... |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Color lithograph poster. The caption running across the top is "Frank Sanger's Company supporting John F. Sheridan." The image shows Sheridan, cross-dresse... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Phyllis Blake (played by Corinne Griffith) dressed as a man in a salt-and-pepper suit and bow tie. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Full-length studio "gag" portrait of two men in front of a painted backdrop. The man on the right, James Gorman, is wearing work clothes, boots and hat and... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Film still - exterior - depicting a young man and young woman looking at each other. The man is played by the actress playing the young woman shown in the ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Three English girls who were raised as boys, from left to right: Tommy (played by Marguerite Clark), Willie (Eleanor Lawson), and Noel (Helen Greene) in a ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Marguerite Clark is seated in a Hansom cab in a publicity still for "The Amazons." She wears a man's tailcoat with white tie, cape, and top hat. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Wearing men's western clothing Jem Mason (played by Agnes Vernon) looks doubtfully at Bare Fisted Gallagher (William Desmond). She holds a Winchester repea... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | In this scene still for the silent drama "The Beckoning Flame," the Indian colonial administrator Harry Dickson (played by Henry Woodruff) and his English ... |
| Date: | 10 17 1990 |
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| Description: | Jim Wiseman, husband of Louise Wiseman, drew some laughs when he appeared on stage at the Lioness Club Fashion Show. Wiseman wore a checked robe and boxers... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Dressed in her brother's clothes, Phyllis King (played by Mary Miles Minter) struggles with Grayson Blair (Alan Forrest) in a scene still for the silent dr... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Grayson Blair (played by Alan Forrest) discovers that the boy he has seized is actually Phyllis King (played by Mary Miles Minter) dressed in her brother's... |
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| Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a woman posing sitting on the left wearing a false moustache, uniform jacket and hat, and a woman wearing... |
| Date: | 08 09 1953 |
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| Description: | Bob Lulling (?) dressed as a woman posing as a dancer. |
| Date: | 01 12 1954 |
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| Description: | A barbershop quartet of U.W. students singing on behalf of prom queen candidate, Mary Gisvold of Chippewa Falls, at the rally in the Memorial Union Rathske... |
| Date: | 01 12 1954 |
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| Description: | Four male "chorus girls" dancing on behalf of their prom queen candidate, Gloria Robbins of Oshkosh, at the rally at the Memorial Union Rathskellar. The pe... |
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