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Raquel Torres Holding a Dog

Date: 08 12 1932
Description: Portrait of Raquel Torres, actress and RKO star, holding a small dog.
Photograph

Orpheum Player at Henry Vilas Zoo

Date: 09 11 1930
Description: Elevated view of Orpheum players at the Henry Vilas Zoo (Vilas Park Zoo) standing next to buffaloes.
Photograph

Group of Entertainers

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Description: Five men and a boy outside a tent, one dancing with snakes, two others playing a guitar and mandolin.
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Crowd Watching Circus Parade

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Description: Elevated view of a crowd watching a monkey ride a horse in a circus parade in town. A man is leading the horse down the unpaved street.
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Dan Rice Home

Date: 1895
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...
Photograph

High Dive

Date: 1910
Description: Elevated view of a crowd watching a diver who has launched himself from a high ladder supported by guy wires. The railing around a small pool is visible on...
Photograph

Hope Nursing Home

Date: 06 1994
Description: "Ossie Reimer of Lomira with his dog, Rusty, entertains patients at Hope Nursing Home."
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Grand Hotel Queen's Birthday Menu Exterior

Date: 05 24 1898
Description: Front and back covers, printed in color, of the bill of fare served at the Grand Hotel on the birthday of Queen Victoria, with a tinted three-quarter view ...
Print

Wisconsin State Fair Letterhead

Date: 1952
Description: Letterhead for the Wisconsin State Fair, with a state fair ribbon superimposed on a silhouette of the state, and two vignettes of agricultural and industri...
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...
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...
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...

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