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| Date: | 02 12 1959 |
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| Description: | Rev. Sig Sandrock at Midvale Community Lutheran Church, shown in costume posing as Judas to give a "first person" report. He will also assume the roles of ... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Nine young people posing on stage. One person is in blackface. Caption reads: "Dane County Wis Amateur theatrical group 1923". |
| Date: | 05 22 1935 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of a large group of children in costume, some in blackface, on the stage at Franklin School. 305 W. Lakeside Street. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Film still of Interior bedroom with young woman in bed being comforted by a servant - a white actress in blackface. ("Black face" is written on the back of... |
| 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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| Description: | Still from the 1921 film "Fool's Paradise". Arthur Phelps (Conrad Nagel) gestures toward Samaran (Julia Faye) who is seated cross-legged on a small platfor... |
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| Description: | Director Cecil B. DeMille confers with actors John Davidson and Julia Faye on the set of the 1922 film "Fool's Paradise". Davidson is dressed in a uniform ... |
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| Description: | Myrna Loy, who played the Sengalese spy Fifi in the 1927 film "Ham and Eggs at the Front", poses for a photograph. Loy is wearing a black curly wig and bla... |
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| Description: | Cally Brown (Louise Fazenda) and Ham (Tom Wilson) sit next to each other on a small sofa in a scene from the 1927 film "Ham and Eggs at the Front". They ar... |
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| Description: | Eric Coffman and Sid Boyum making slanted-eye gestures at each other in Sid's backyard at 237 Waubesa Street. Eric is wearing a Kimono and Sid is wearing a... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Dousman family and house party guests dressed for a fancy ball. They are posed on the staircase and in the hall and are wearing fancy dress or costumes. On... |
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