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| Description: | Madison television personality Howie Olson (right) with Cowboy Eddie and his friend magician Ben Bergor. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Ben Goldenberger and his sister Olivia face each other over a small table. There is a menorah on the bookcase in the background. Ben would later change his... |
| Date: | 06 26 1954 |
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| Description: | Winkie, the elephant from Vilas Park Zoo, is led by her keepers from indoor winter quarters to her large outdoor elephant yard. This is the 4th annual "com... |
| Date: | 06 26 1954 |
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| Description: | Shown watching Winkie the Vilas Park Zoo elephant (not shown), are Victoria Italiana (left) and the Harold Phillips family. Mom is holding son Alan and Dad... |
| Date: | 07 11 1954 |
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| Description: | Frank Wheeler of Muscoda, a 103-year-old member of the Zor Shrine Temple, takes a camel ride during the annual Camels' Day at Vilas Zoo. The event was spon... |
| Date: | 09 25 1956 |
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| Description: | LeRoy Luberg, assistant to University of Wisconsin president E.B. Fred, and Jesse Briese of Madison take part in a skit during the Club Clinic, a program f... |
| Date: | 01 23 1957 |
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| Description: | Six Jewish husbands dressed as female Hawaiian dancers in wigs and grass skirts posing for the camera. The husbands were part of a presentation at the annu... |
| Date: | 05 01 1957 |
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| Description: | Lillian Simonson, Altrusa Club member and Marquette School principal, is shown giving a preview of a wishing well to youths Jerry Bailey and Janet Dahl. |
| Date: | 1986 |
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| Description: | Front cover and imagined bill of fare for "Rupert's Roadkill Cafe: You Kill It ... ... We Grill It!," with a cartoon drawing of a cat standing on long, fla... |
| Date: | 01 25 1959 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with brothers Greg and Mark Hennen of 5709 Midmoor Road standing in their snow fort and holding snowballs at the ready the day following a fiv... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Men on wagons carrying large boiler, etc., posing in sham-battle horseplay, probably in Cross Plains. In the background is a bluff. |
| Date: | 11 05 1959 |
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| Description: | Five girls are ready to enjoy a magic show presented by Jack Hurlbut at the Mother-Daughter Opti-Mrs. Luncheon. From left to right are: Linda Nettum, Julie... |
| Date: | 01 17 1960 |
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| Description: | Mayor Ivan Nestingen (center) posing with a bowling ball in his hands before throwing a strike while throwing out the first ball. On the left is Pat Lynaug... |
| Date: | 07 04 1954 |
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| Description: | Joanna Winch, Tony Hanson and Randy Winch were just like hundreds of other city children who love to be in a parade on the Fourth of July. |
| Date: | 02 26 1955 |
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| Description: | James and Sheila Reul dressed in clown costumes at the "Mardi Gras" dancing party of the Chameleon Club at the Nakoma Country Club. |
| Date: | 2011 |
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| Description: | A young lady kissing a stuffed Badger on game day as two friends are watching and laughing. Behind the group is a red automobile. |
| Date: | 09 07 1956 |
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| Description: | Children watch a clown with a snake at the parade during the Midwest Shrine Convention. |
| Date: | 09 07 1956 |
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| Description: | Pamella Hattleberg talks with a clown at the Midwest Shrine parade. |
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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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| Description: | Letterhead of Ring 31 of the International Brotherhood of Magicians, with the seal of the IBM and a cartoon by Wayne D. Peterson (?) of Ben Bergor with a r... |
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