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Westgate Theater-Go-Round Troupe

Date: 06 23 1960
Description: The new theater troupe moving into its headquarters at the West Side Businessmen's Club. Left to right are: Raff Brewster, managing director, and David Thu...
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Lakewood Pupils Present Play

Date: 03 04 1959
Description: Eighth grade pupils rehearsing the play "Finders Creepers". Actors are, left to right: Cynthia Clarke, Wade Smith, Dick Harbort, Mike Savidusky and Jamie H...
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Fort Howard Ball

Date: 07 1934
Description: View across lawn towards people in formal attire standing in a field, in front of a tent stage. Along the tent are large panels with drawings or paintings ...
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Tercentennial Celebration, Green Bay

Date: 07 1934
Description: View across lawn towards people standing in front of a large theater stage and backdrop with trees drawn on it. Some are costumed as soldiers and some as N...
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Location Shooting for "Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man"

Date: 1961
Description: View of a street, with shop fronts, a horse-drawn carriage, and automobiles. Several people are in the background. Caption reads: "Saxon Wis 1961. 20th Cen...
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Production Crew Filming "Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man"

Date: 10 03 1961
Description: Several people standing on a street. A ladder and film lights are visible. Caption reads: "Saxon Wis Oct 3 1961. 20th Century Fox motion picture studio cre...
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Location Shooting for "Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man"

Date: 1961
Description: A film production crew operating a camera crane in front of a street scene, with signs for Tiny's Saloon, Briggs Saloon, and Wm. "Pop" Wiener, Auctioneer. ...
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Location Shooting for "Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man"

Date: 1961
Description: A man standing on a log cart, holding the reins for a horse team. Other people are in the foreground and background. Shopfronts for Tiny's Saloon and Brigg...
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Milwaukee-Downer College Marionettes

Date: 03 08 1956
Description: A woman adjusts a marionette on a table. Above and behind the table, three women operate horizontal ("American") control bars. Caption reads: "Mrs. Harry H...
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Alverno College Masquers at Rehearsal

Date: 02 14 1961
Description: Overhead view of a stage. Three women are reclining on the set to the upper left. A man is standing in the lower right, gesturing toward them. Caption read...
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Neillsville High School Senior Class Play

Date: 1912
Description: Posed scene from a play. A man kneels and reaches out to a woman, who is turned away but looking back at him. Another actress is dressed as a young child, ...
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Neillsville High School Senior Class Play

Date: 1912
Description: Group portrait of seven young men and three young women, in costume and seated or standing around a couch. Caption reads: "Augusta Masie Breed. Senior Clas...
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"The Mistletoe Bough"

Date: 1885
Description: Group portrait of four men and four women, all in costume. One woman is dressed in a bridal gown. Caption reads: "'The Mistletoe Bough' 1885. Mary R. Brigh...
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A Beardless Resident

Date: 07 06 1956
Description: View of an outdoor performance with a tree on the left, and a brick building in the background. Two men in suits are attempting to push a third man into a ...
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Technicolor Dreamcoat

Date: 07 14 1989
Description: Ten people posing on stage, in costume. On the curtain behind them is the word Joseph. Caption reads: "TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT — The Village Players of Mukwo...
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"King and I" Opens

Date: 04 06 1958
Description: A full stage view of Madison Theater Guild's production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "The King and I", at East High School.
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University of Wisconsin Theater Play

Date: 02 06 1930
Description: University of Wisconsin, theater play, "Locked Windows."
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East High School, Fencers on Stage

Date: 03 10 1930
Description: Elevated view towards a stage at East High School, with fencers in a pantomime scene from the play "Melodrama" presented by the Civics Club.
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University of Wisconsin-Madison Spanish Play Cast

Date: 01 15 1931
Description: University of Wisconsin-Madison Spanish Department students performing the play Un Neuvo, on stage at Bascom Hall.
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St. Raphael's PTA Playcast

Date: 03 19 1932
Description: The cast in costume on stage of "The Emerson Club" presented by the St. Raphael's School PTA. Six women in Victorian costumes.

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