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Christopher Columbus Play

Date: 11 28 1933
Description: Four children in costume surround a cardboard cutout of a sailing ship for a play about Christopher Columbus. The play was performed at Longfellow School, ...
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West High School Production "Our Town"

Date: 11 14 1944
Description: West High School student production of "Our Town" showing a family scene at breakfast, left to right: Mary Snee, Virginia Baldwin, Barbara Burrell, and Erw...
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West High School Production of "Our Town"

Date: 11 14 1944
Description: West High School student production of "Our Town" with two actresses and one actor on a ladder. Left to right: Virginia Baldwin, Joel Salter, and Jerry Eri...
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West High School Production "Our Town"

Date: 11 14 1944
Description: West High School student production of "Our Town" during the drug store scene, with Kenneth Paine, druggist, Virginia Baldwin, and Joel Salter.
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Frank Hanson and Beverly Sime

Date: 02 02 1949
Description: East High School students Beverly Sime, playing the piano, and Frank Hanson, rehearsing for the "Pirates of Penzance" operetta.
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Scene from "Romance of the Reaper"

Date: 1929
Description: A production still for the Fox Hearst film "Romance of the Reaper". The film was produced by International Harvester at Walnut Grove to celebrate the Reape...
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Covered Wagon on Set of "Romance of the Reaper"

Date: 1929
Description: A production still for the Fox Hearst film "Romance of the Reaper". The film was produced by International Harvester at Walnut Grove to celebrate the Reape...
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Edgewood Play

Date: 05 12 1952
Description: Two girls and one boy in costumes for an Edgewood play (operetta "Forest Prince"?).
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Youth Summer Theater Show

Date: 07 08 1952
Description: Youth rehearsing for the Summer Theater show, "The Golden Goose," are, left to right: Mike Kretschman, Donald Aitken, Jr., Carol Ann Lane, Ann Eccles, and ...
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East HIgh School Actors

Date: 10 26 1953
Description: Students acting out a scene in East High School's fall play, "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court." Left to right: Mary Levenick, Roger Alexander...
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Youth Summer Theater

Date: 05 18 1954
Description: Actors and actresses portray a scene from the play "A Shop at Sly Corner" at the Youth Summer Theater. They are, standing left to right: Rod Groves, Willia...
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Madison Theater Guild's "Look Homeward, Angel"

Date: 04 19 1961
Description: Thomas Wolfe's "Look Homeward, Angel" will be the last play of the 1960-61 season of the Madison Theater Guild. From left to right: the older brother Ben ...
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071 - Campers Posing for a Scene in a Dramatic Activity

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Description: Three campers pose for a scene in a dramatic activity. They are dressed in costume. One camper stands, wearing a cape with a hood, gesturing with her left ...
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072 - Paul Bunyan Pageant

Date: 1941
Description: Scene from pageant, with many campers in costume acting out the story of Paul Bunyan. The group is posed sitting and standing outdoors in a sunny, grassy a...
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073 - Cast of Paul Bunyan Pageant

Date: 1941
Description: Group portrait of the cast of the Paul Bunyan pageant. All of the campers are in costume, and are arranged in a semi-circle around some of the implements u...
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Plays at Madison High Schools

Date: 11 09 1954
Description: The play "I Remember Mama" will be presented Friday night in the West High School auditorium. At the rehearsal are, left to right: Bette Jo Wivel, Signe Br...
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Group of People in a Classroom

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Description: Interior group portrait of a large group of children and young adults posing standing and sitting in a room. Some of them are dressed in theatrical costume...
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Blackface Wedding in a Classroom

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Description: Interior group portrait over school desks towards children posing standing in a classroom wearing theatrical costumes and make-up.
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YWCA Theater Class Play

Date: 03 11
Description: Dressed for the final rehearsal for the "Evening of Fine Arts" presentation are YWCA theater class students, foreground, left to right, Mary Ellen Weaver, ...
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Prof. Jerry McNeely & Actors

Date: 01 1962
Description: Debbie Holmes and Nick Plakies read from Prof. Jerry McNeely's script with Wally Ogden and Prof. McNeely, University of Wisconsin professor of radio and TV...

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