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Ben Bergor on Stage

Date: 1930
Description: Magician Ben Bergor of Madison with the stage equipment he used for his performances.
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Ben Bergor Performs

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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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Studio Portrait of European American Woman

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Description: Three-quarter length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of an unidentified European American woman posed sitting. She is wearing a plaid skirt,...
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Studio Portrait of European American Couple

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of an unidentified man posing standing on the left and a woman is posing standing on the right.
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Studio Portrait of European American Couple

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of an unidentified man posing sitting on the left and a woman posing standing on the right.
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Studio Portrait of Two European American Women

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Description: Studio Portrait of two unidentified women posing sitting in front of a woman posing standing in the center behind them.
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Studio Group Portrait of European American Women

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Description: Group portrait of unidentified group of women. Two women are sitting on the left and right, with a woman standing behind them.
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Studio Portrait of Two European American Women

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Description: Studio portrait n front of a painted backdrop of a woman posing standing on the left and a woman posing standing on the right.
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Studio Portrait of Unidentified European American Couple

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Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a woman standing and leaning on a prop stone column, and a man sitting on a prop stone wall.
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Margaret McGuire Promoting Cheese

Date: 1952
Description: Margaret McGuire, the 1948 Alice in Dairyland, on WAFM-TV, Channel 13, with another woman promoting Wisconsin Cheese.
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John Garfield and Lili Palmer

Date: 1947
Description: Lili Palmer is resting her head on John Garfield's shoulder in a scene from the 1947 film "Body and Soul." A piece of equipment, possibly a microphone, is ...
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Louis Hayward

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Description: Actor Louis Hayward in costume having his hair prepared by an unidentified woman on the set of the 1939 film "The Man in the Iron Mask." Behind them are ta...
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Jean Simmons

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Description: Actress Jean Simmons getting her hair adjusted by an unidentified woman, probably hairdresser Vivienne Walker. Simmons is sitting in costume on the set of ...
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"The World of Sholom Aleichem"

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Description: Sarah Cunningham is standing behind Morris Carnovsky, who is sitting, in a scene from the play "The World of Sholom Aleichem." She is smiling down on him w...
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Scene from "Alibi"

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Description: Dancers taking a curtain call on stage in a scene from the 1929 film "Alibi." The orchestra is in a pit in front of the stage, and two men and two women ar...
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Scene from "Alibi"

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Description: A man with a guitar is standing on the stage in a scene from the 1929 film "Alibi." He is looking up at a woman standing on a balcony above him. The orches...
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Chorus Girls in the Film "Alibi"

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Description: Chorus girls standing on stage in a scene from the 1929 film "Alibi." Each dancer is standing on one leg with the other leg bent at the knee. The orchestra...
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"Phantom of Chinatown"

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Description: A group of people are standing and looking down at Dr. John Benton who has collapsed and is laying on the floor in a scene from the 1940 film "Phantom of C...
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Tableau

Date: 1905
Description: Three young women and five young men, three of whom are in military uniform, are posing in a scene from a play. There is patriotic bunting hanging from the...
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"Kiss Me Kate" Scene

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Description: A scene still from the 1953 film "Kiss Me Kate" starring Howard Keel and Kathryn Grayson. In the scene, Keel, as Petruchio, has snared Kate, Grayson, aroun...

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