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| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | George Walker, Adah Overton Walker, and Bert Williams link arms and dance the cakewalk in the first Broadway musical to be written and performed by African... |
| Date: | 08 21 1917 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "The above picture is the first that has been taken of Mrs. Vernon Castle and her soldier husband since he returned to this country aft... |
| Date: | 09 27 1949 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Harry P. (Merry) Stoll applies makeup to her husband, Harry P. Stoll, the master of ceremonies for the JCC musical review "Then and Now." Mrs. Stoll ... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Irene Castle by Ernest Bachrach and copyrighted by RKO in 1938. This photograph was used to promote the Fred Astare and Ginger Rogers fi... |
| Date: | 06 1922 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "Irene Castle and her husband, Robert Treman, leaving London for Paris via the aerial route on Mrs. Castle's latest trip abroad." |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "Mae Murray, who just recently completed 'Circe,' as she looked when she appeared on the stage. Miss Murray started her career as a dance... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length portrait of Irene Castle holding her pet monkey Rastus. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "Mrs. Vernon Castle In her 'preparedness suit.' This is made on strictly mannish lines, and has no trimming whatever. She is shown here... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Publicity photograph of Irene Castle in a gauzy dress sitting on top of a column. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Waist-up portrait of Irene Castle holding one of her small Belgian Griffon dogs. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Irene Castle and her director Frank Crane discussing a script on the set of either Vengence is Mine or Stranded in Arcady, two films they mad... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Full-length publicity portrait of Irene Castle posed in a studio in front of a painted backdrop. She looking over her shoulder at the camera and is wearing... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Mazie Trumbull, famous as a cross-dresser and dancer, and her sister Frances, side by side in a White Studio photograph. |
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| Description: | Candid portrait of Hilo Hattie (born Clarissa "Clara" Haili), who was a Hawaiian musician, dancer, actress and comedian. There is a guitar on the ground ne... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Irene Castle in a complicated satin and tulle costume in her role as the cabaret dancer Palma May in the silent film "French Heels" (Holtre 1922). |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Irene Castle in pajamas and sleeping cap enjoying a cantaloupe as part of a posed breakfast in bed with her pet monkey Rastus. This photograph was used to ... |
| 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). |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Irene Castle in a gauzy tulle and satin dress poses full-length in an air-brushed publicity photograph. The caption printed on the back of the print reads:... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Actress Bessie Barriscale as Anna Gerard, the Parisian singer at the Black Rat night club in "A Trick of Fate" (Exhibitors Mutual, 1919). |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | The writer Vera Caspary, pen in hand, with male and female dancers handsomely posed behind her in a publicity still for the musical comedy play "Wedding in... |
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