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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... |
| Date: | 07 12 1955 |
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| Description: | Comedic actor Joe E. Brown holding a baseball, with an unidentified man standing behind him.. |
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| Description: | Still wearing his pajamas, "Milwaukee Sentinel" editor Alvin Steinkopf reads the newspaper. The popular comic strip, "Gasoline Alley," can be seen on the ... |
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| Description: | Chicago, Milwaukee, & St. Paul Railway engine no. 812, class G5, built by Schenectady Locomotive Works in December of 1890. There is a device on the right ... |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | Informal portrait of Associated Press journalist Alvin J. Steinkopf seated at his desk in the London bureau. |
| Date: | 08 05 1954 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Ulmont Healy, seated on a step. He is the director of the Mineral Point Players' production of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream." |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | "Jayne Blodgett - Conover Model." A photographer with a 4x5 press camera is shooting from the opposite direction. |
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| Description: | Spencer Tracy poses on railroad tracks holding a hat. |
| Date: | 05 14 1956 |
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| Description: | Nellie Howland, one of the five original members of the Philharmonic Chorus, is shown in a local drugstore as part of her job as inventory worker for the M... |
| Date: | 01 29 1957 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Ruth Allcott, Art Director of Madison's public schools. |
| Date: | 04 07 2011 |
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| Description: | An on-set portrait of PBS NewsHour co-anchor Jim Lehrer. |
| Date: | 03 11 1957 |
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| Description: | Little Garden Club members Pearl Nordeen and Lydia Shafer posing with their floral arrangement at the Red Cross office. |
| Date: | 02 1996 |
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| Description: | "Cheryl Gage and Shirley Widmer hold up some of Fred Bandlow's photos that were on display at the Fond du Lac Library." |
| Date: | 11 20 1957 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Randall Elementary School student Michael Bollig, age 8, who created a Thanksgiving cut-out poster. |
| Date: | 11 20 1957 |
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| Description: | Portrait of West Junior High School student Laura Crow, age 12, who created a crayon sketch of a family scene as viewed through a large picture window. |
| Date: | 12 19 1957 |
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| Description: | Jerry C. McNeely, associate professor of speech at the University of Wisconsin, has had two major television plays produced, one on "Studio One" and the ot... |
| Date: | 05 15 1958 |
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| Description: | Madison television programs are hosted by Madison women and cover topics like cooking, arts, fashion and crafts. A husband and wife team, Bea and Carson Gu... |
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| Description: | Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a man dressed as a cowboy. He is aiming a gun in one hand and holding a whip in the other. Th... |
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