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Ben and Alvina Bergor

Date: 1940
Description: Ben Bergor and his wife Alvina performing their amazing escape act utilizing a straightjacket and a trunk.
Photograph

Ben Bergor Billboard

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Description: Madison magician Ben Bergor standing in front of the Leota Theatre. Bergor was born Ben Goldenberger, and first performed in vaudeville as Bennie Golden Be...
Photograph

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 with Lighted Cigarettes

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Description: Formal publicity portrait of magician Ben Bergor of Madison performing one of his sleight of hand tricks with lighted cigarettes. Bergor was billed as the ...
Photograph

Free Show Tonight

Date: 09 1930
Description: During the 1920s Madison magician Ben Bergor toured with various vaudeville companies. This is the setup for the Curtis Comedy Company.
Birth Index Record

Bergor, Ben M

Date: 1893-11-05
County: Dane
Poster

Ben Bergor Ad

Date: 1934
Description: Advertising poster for a performance by Madison magician Ben Bergor.
Manuscript

Ben Bergor Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of Ben Bergor, with illustrations of theatrical masks, Bergor's head, his "Remember this bird!" symbol, and a cartoon of Bergor at the bottom of...
Photograph

Mother and Son

Date: 12 1900
Description: Uncropped portrait of Estella Moessner Goldenberger of Madison and her son Ben, who was later better known by his stage name, Ben Bergor.
Photograph

Cowboy Eddie and Friends

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Description: Madison television personality Howie Olson (right) with Cowboy Eddie and his friend magician Ben Bergor.
Photograph

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.
Photograph

Ben Bergor Escapes

Date: 1940
Description: Madison magician Ben Bergor, standing in the trunk, and his wife, Alvina, standing nearby, getting ready to perform an amazing escape act. The act had Berg...
Historical Object

Houdini Award

Date: 1941
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...
Photograph

Ventriloquism Act

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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...
Print

Ben Bergor Letterhead

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Description: Ben Bergor letterhead, promoting Bergor as a theatrical agent and entertainment consultant, with a cartoon of a bird wearing a top hat and a bow tie, and c...
Photograph

Houdini Award

Date: 1941
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...
Photograph

Portrait of a Clown

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Description: Portrait of a clown.
Photograph

Straightjacketed Escape

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Description: View from window looking down at the escape act of Madison magician Ben Bergor. He is beginning to make the escape from the straightjacket while the crowd ...
Photograph

Sleight of Hand

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Description: Outdoor portrait of Madison magician Ben Bergor, who performed as Bennie Golden Berger during the early years of his career. He billed himself as the faste...
Manuscript

Ben Bergor Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of magician and entertainer Ben Bergor, promoting his availability as an after dinner speaker ("a truly new and humorous approach in storytellin...

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