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| Date: | 08 1901 |
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| Description: | Professor Oscar John Schendel is pictured with a violin and bow in a billboard advertising "Schendel's All Star Vaudeville, Big Three-Ringed Circus, and Ma... |
| Date: | 08 23 1901 |
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| Description: | The stage and surrounding posters of Professor Oscar John Schendel's "All Star Vaudeville, Big Three-Ringed Circus, and Mammoth Menagerie." |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Gummo (Milton Marx) on the left and on the right Groucho (Julius Henry Marx) holding a rat terrier dog. Caption from Paramount Pictures, Inc.: "THE BOY... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "Nita Naldi, the original Aphrodite girl, who will appear in a Johnny Dooley comedy at the Pantages next week." Naldi appeared in ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Allie Harveaux, an acrobat, in a promotional photograph for his balancing act. His body is parallel to the floor supported only by his right hand which is ... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Comic actor Fred Stone holding the tiller of an early two-seat runabout. The automobile may be a Woods Electric or Woods Dual Power. Stone had been a circu... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Magician Ben Bergor of Madison with the stage equipment he used for his performances. |
| 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: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Harry Houdini, the well-known escape artist, was born in Budapest, Hungary and raised in Appleton, Wisconsin. At the time of his immigration his name was s... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait of the renowned escape artist Harry Houdini. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Harriet Curran Kelly and her four children in a studio portrait from about 1914. From left to right the children are Eugene, Harriet, Louise, and James. Wi... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Jerry's Piano Girls, a Keith vaudeville circuit headliner act. |
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