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| Description: | The Gesell family in costume with broom, sword, and other props for a humorous picture. Family members identified as follows: Gerhard Jr. (drinking from pi... |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of thirteen girls in costume, posing sitting, standing, and holding tambourines in front of a painted backdrop. |
| Date: | 12 20 1949 |
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| Description: | Helen Meanwell, wearing a red brocaded satin dress which Mrs. Stanley Hanks wore for the University of Wisconsin Junior Prom in 1896, and her fiancé Robert... |
| Date: | 08 27 1889 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a group of women from Stockholm on their first American Tour. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A full-length studio portrait of a young woman, possibly a dancer, in costume. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A young woman poses with a basket of flowers over one arm. She wears an old-fashioned costume and stands in front of a painted backdrop which mimics a ston... |
| 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: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Informal studio portrait of Ada James holding a gun, and her father, David G. James in a hat, with four other people dressed in pioneer-type costumes. A wo... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Irene Castle in a gauzy tulle and satin dress in a full-length pose in a publicity photograph for the silent film "Patria" (International 1917). |
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| Description: | Full-length studio portrait of a girl dressed as a nurse and a boy dressed as a soldier standing in front of a painted backdrop. He holds a rifle and she i... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | A boy and girl gaze at one another in a haystack, one with a reaping hook and the other with a handful of straw. The children were models and the photograp... |
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| Description: | Full-length studio portrait of eleven women and a man posed standing. They are probably wearing costumes for a theater production, and the woman sixth from... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Charles Boyer and Jean Arthur talk with director Frank Borzage on the set of the 1937 film "History Is Made at Night". Borzage sits in a chair while Boyer ... |
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