Title	"Helping to depict history"
Date	1963-07-02
Photographer	Wasko, Joseph
Subject	Museums Waxworks Costume designers Wax figures
Organization-Building	American Museum of Wax Figures and Graphics (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Geographic Subject	Philadelphia (Pa.)
Personal Names	Donelson, Emily Tennessee, 1807-1836 Madison, Dolley, 1768-1849 Neu, Thea Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 Fennessey, Margaret
Description	American Wax Museum costume designer Thea Neu and her Philadelphia assistant Margaret Fennessey (seated) add touches to the ball gown of Emily Donelson, niece of President Jackson, after finishing the beribboned figure of Dolley Madison for an Inaugural Ball scene. Among the 100 other historical figure is that of poet Edgar Allan Poe, at right.
Original Notes	Title from clipping caption
Format	image/jp2
Type	Photographs
Publisher	Philadelphia Evening Bulletin
Physical Description	1 photograph : b&w ; 8 x 10 in.
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Repository	Temple University Libraries, Special Collections Research Center
Repository Collection	George D. McDowell Philadelphia Evening Bulletin Collection
Collection ID	SCRC 170
Folder	Buildings--American Museum of Wax Figures and Graphics
Digital Collection	George D. McDowell Philadelphia Evening Bulletin Photographs
Digital Publisher	Philadelphia PA: Temple University Libraries.
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Identifier	P057177B
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