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Deane, Ernie. Dickey, Violet Arnold of Little Rock, Ark., former Earl Carrol "Vanities" and Ziegfield Show Boat beauty, November 24, 1963 [Haskell Coffin portrait] [graphic] / Ernie Deane [photographer].

Title: Dickey, Violet Arnold of Little Rock, Ark., former Earl Carrol "Vanities" and Ziegfield Show Boat beauty, November 24, 1963 [Haskell Coffin portrait] [graphic] / Ernie Deane [photographer]. 1963.

Part of a group of negatives taken for December 3, 1963, Arkansas Gazette article "Mrs. Bill Dickey Had Brief, Brilliant Showgirl Career," F5:1. Violet Forkus Dickey of Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas was a showgirl known as Violet Arnold in many major theatrical productions in New York in the 1920s and 1930s. Her portrait was made by James Montgomery Flagg (2041.1) and Haskell Coffin (2041.2).

ArchivalResource: 1 negative : b&w ; 6 x 6 cm. (2 x 2 in.)

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Lines, Edessa L., 1877-1962. Papers [manuscript] 1905-1952.

Title: Papers [manuscript] 1905-1952.

Papers of Milwaukee resident who served as secretary of the Wisconsin Chapter of the National League for Woman's Service, a patriotic organization founded during World War I. The records consist of detailed meeting minutes; correspondence with affiliate volunteer organizations; programs for an Americanization pageant, Armistice Day, Milwaukee's welcome home parade for soldiers; and an unpublished history of the organization's activities. Includes a 'Share in the Victory' War Savings Stamp poster issued in 1918, featuring an allegorical female figure holding a sword and a palm branch by artist Haskell Coffin. Also contains photographic prints and lantern slides documenting immigrant housing conditions in Milwaukee in 1905-1906, made during Edessa Lines's (nee: Kunz) tenure as a factory inspector for the Wisconsin Bureau of Labor. Also includes fragmented documentation from 1915-1916 concerning the management of the Wisconsin Industrial School for Girls, prior to the private institution's transfer to the state of Wisconsin in 1917.

ArchivalResource: 1.3 ft.

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War Posters Collection, 1913-1945

Title: War Posters Collection 1913-1945

Posters from World War I and World War II. Majority are American but there are a few from Canada, France and England. Subjects include recruitment, fund-raising (war chest, savings bonds, chocolate fund), civil defense, and more. Organizations represented include the Red Cross; U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps; American Expeditionary Force; various relief committees; more.

ArchivalResource: 261 items

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