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| 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: | 1895 |
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| Description: | View of the two-story Girard, Pennsylvania home of Dan Rice (1/23/1823 – 2/22/1900), entertainer and circus performer widely regarded as "America's most fa... |
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| Description: | Billie Sidell contorts her body in a dancer's pose. She is wearing a beaded costume and a feathered headdress. |
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| Description: | Billie Sidell strikes an elegant pose, dressed in a beaded costume and feathered headdress. |
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| Description: | Billie Sidell, dressed as a man, poses with her sister, Pierre Sidell, who is sitting on her shoulder. They are wearing elaborate, ornate costumes. |
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| Description: | Pierre Sidell poses in a ballet dancing costume and pointe shoes, standing en pointe. The photograph is inscribed, "To my Teacher Leo Kehl. Pierre Sidell". |
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| Description: | Billie (Violet) Sidell holds her sister Pierre Sidell aloft over her shoulder in a pose. They are posing outdoors on a shoreline wearing what appears to be... |
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| Description: | The Sidell sisters create a dramatic, elegant dance pose as Billie (Violet), who is standing, holds Pierre upside-down across her shoulders. |
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| Description: | Chicago, Milwaukee, & St. Paul Railway engine no. 1079, class J2. The engineer was Philip Currie and the fireman was Edward C. McNeill. The third man in th... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Gayety Theatre, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with the name of the theatre in an oval embellished with outlines of flowers and leaves, flanked... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Milwaukee office of the Local Executive Committee for Head Camp Entertainment for a convention on June 20th to 24th, 1905, of the Modern ... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the A.J. Schneider Music Company of Kenosha, Wisconsin, dealers in "pianos, victrolas, records, etc.," with a lineup of well-known opera sing... |
| Date: | 1984 |
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| Description: | The rock band Appliances-SFB playing in guitarist William Siebecker's basement. Singer Tom Laskin is jumping in the air while holding a microphone. Band me... |
| Date: | 08 1986 |
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| Description: | Publicity photograph of the band members from Fire Town, a Madison, Wisconsin rock band. From left to right are Doug Erikson, Phil Davis, Butch Vig, and To... |
| Date: | 1990 |
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| Description: | Publicity photograph of the four band members of Marques Bovre & the Evil Twins, a Madison, Wisconsin band. From left to right are Eric Dummer, Marques Bov... |
| Date: | 05 04 2000 |
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| Description: | Publicity photograph of the four band members from Pachinko, a Madison, Wisconsin rock band. From left to right are Mike Henry, Brian Bresch, Greg Norman a... |
| Date: | 03 1996 |
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| Description: | Publicity photograph of musician Robert J. of Madison, Wisconsin. He is holding a Fender Stratocaster electric guitar while leaning against a wall with his... |
| Date: | 07 14 1992 |
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| Description: | Publicity photograph of five band members from Ivory Library, a Madison, Wisconsin rock band. From left to right are Derrick McBride, Dave Batson (standing... |
| Date: | 10 10 1991 |
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| Description: | Publicity photograph of the four band members from Poopshovel, a Madison, Wisconsin rock band. From left to right are Rich Whitaker, Bill Crawford, Dave Ko... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with two views of a play performed for Valentine's Day. One side shows a person dressed in jester's attir... |
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