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Ziegfield Follies

Date: 1912
Description: Bert Williams (right) and Leon Errol (left) are a cabbie and his fare from the 1912 Ziegfield Follies. The cab is drawn by a rumpled pantomime horse. Behin...
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Ada Lois James with Rifle

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Description: Ada [& friend] Charlie. Ada is pretending to shoot an apple from the head of her friend Charlie, who is posing kneeling with his arms folded. There is a pa...
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Group of Girls

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Description: A group of girls, possibly in a school pageant.
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Maema Marionette Scene

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Description: View of a Maema Marionette scene from "The Snow Mountain." Two child puppets play on a see-saw and a female puppet sits on a bench.
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"Citizen Kane" Production Still

Date: 1941
Description: Production still during the filming of "Citizen Kane." Orson Wells smokes a pipe and directs Dorothy Comingore (playing Susan Alexander Kane) from a wheel...
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Cygnet Films

Date: 10 1968
Description: Bill Duren (in the background), owner of Cygnet Films, talks with a production assistant during shooting for a training film. Cygnet Films, which was based...
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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 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.
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Dick DeYoung

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Description: Professional magician Dick DeYoung of Sheboygan, Wisconsin, on a stage with three other people. DeYoung had over five decades of experience as a club and s...
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Mandu the Magician

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Description: Doc Mann of Beloit, Wisconsin, who performed novelty entertainment and "top hat magic" as Mandu the magician.
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Dutch Girls Orchestra

Date: 05 28 1934
Description: Photograph submitted to the state of Wisconsin for trademark registration. Group portrait of the six women in the Dutch Girls Orchestra. They are posed ons...
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Tansy Camp Fire Girls Album: Queen of Hearts Play

Date: 02 17 1938
Description: Image from the Tansy Camp Fire Girls album, with cast members of the Queen of Hearts play: Armida Peterson, Rose Martinelli (lady-in-waiting), Rosalyn Schi...
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Album: Feast of the Little Lanterns Play

Date: 05 1927
Description: Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with cast members of "Feast of the Little Lanterns," a production staged by the Fireside Girls club. The ...
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Women on Stage

Date: 1916
Description: Seven women on stage, apparently in a scene from an amateur theatrical performance, wearing conventional street clothes.
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Isaac Singer with George Zieber

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Description: Actors portraying I.M. Singer and his friend George Zieber with the first sewing machine.
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Singer Examining a Sewing Machine

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Description: Actors portray I.M. Singer and George Zieber examining an early sewing machine.
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"Riot in Cell Block 11" Production Still

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Description: Actor Neville Brand, director Don Siegel, and another actor joke around on the set of the film "Riot in Cell Block 11." Brand holds Siegel as the other act...
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"Riot in Cell Block 11" Production Still

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Description: Actor Neville Brand, on the left, and another actor in the center with a knife in his belt, talk with director Don Siegel, far right. They are on the set o...
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"Riot in Cell Block 11" Production Still

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Description: Leo Gordon, Neville Brand and Joel Fluellen stand in front of Robert Osterloh, sitting, who is holding a pencil in one hand and a cigarette in the other. A...
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Neville Brand and Whit Bissell

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Description: Actor Neville Brand stands behind actor Whit Bissell while holding a knife to his throat. They are on the set of the film "Riot in Cell Block 11."

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