Date: | 1940 |
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Description: | Ben Bergor and his wife Alvina performing their amazing escape act utilizing a straightjacket and a trunk. |
Date: | 1941 |
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Description: | The Houdini Award, an album, presented to Madison magician Ben Bergor by the Houdini Club of Wisconsin. Because Bergor won the award three years in success... |
Date: | 1930 |
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Description: | Magician Ben Bergor of Madison with the stage equipment he used for his performances. |
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Description: | Magician Ben Bergor of Madison performing a trick on stage. With him are his wife, who performed as Madame Alva, and an assistant. |
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Description: | Mrs. Alvina Bergor walking on the Capitol Square with her daughter Monona in a baby carriage. |
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Description: | Madison television personality Howie Olson (right) with Cowboy Eddie and his friend magician Ben Bergor. |
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Description: | Ben Bergor, Madison magician, ventriloquist, and entertainment agent, performing with Jerry O'Reilly at a farm show. With Bergor is his wife Alva who often... |
Date: | 1913 |
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Description: | The Benedict Goldenberger family enjoying a wurst roast in the Madison vicinity. Ben Goldenberger is the leftmost standing man, he was a cooper and vinegar... |
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Description: | A Goldenberger Family picnic in the Madison area. The woman on the far right is Olivia Goldenberger, who performed on the operatic stage as Olivia Monona. ... |
Date: | 1937 |
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Description: | Ben Bergor, a Madison area magician (standing third from the left), with a group of Chicago area magicians. Identified individuals are (seated, left to rig... |
Date: | 1941 |
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Description: | Ben Bergor, a Madison magician, receiving the Houdini Award from the widow of Harry Houdini. Behind him is the trunk from which Bergor had escaped, and fou... |
Date: | 12 1900 |
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Description: | Uncropped portrait of Estella Moessner Goldenberger of Madison and her son Ben, who was later better known by his stage name, Ben Bergor. |
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Description: | Tintype of Estella Moessner Goldenberger of Madison, (in the window), with her friend Celia Gibson posing in front of a painted backdrop. |
Date: | 02 1954 |
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Description: | Elevated view of entertainment at the annual convention of the Wisconsin Retail Lumberman's Association in Milwaukee. |
Date: | 1960 |
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Description: | The Wisconsin veterans homes and hospitals regularly enjoyed entertainment provided the Madison Elks via Ben Bergor's entertainment agency. The performance... |
Date: | 05 05 1918 |
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Description: | Send off for World War I recruits at the railroad station. The man leaning out of the train window is Ben Bergor, a professional magician and vaudeville pe... |
Date: | 1962 |
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Description: | Jodie "Butterbeans" Edwards and his wife "Suzy," a vaudeville comedy act. After Suzy died in 1962, Edwards continued to tour until the time of his death in... |
Date: | 1950 |
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Description: | The Dizzy Sizzlers were a comedy band based in Watertown that performed throughout Wisconsin during the 1950s and 1960s. |
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Description: | The Harmonicats were a popular jazz harmonica trio, originally known as the Harmonica Madcats, that was formed in 1944. The original musicians were Murad (... |
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