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Description: | Quarter-length formal oval painting of Samuel Marshall, (1820-1907), banker, co-founder and President of the Marshall & Ilsley Bank. |
Date: | 1952 |
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Description: | Frank Lloyd Wright with apprentices at Taliesin. Eric Lloyd Wright is seated to the right of FLW. Taliesin is located south of Spring Green, on the opposit... |
Date: | 1884 |
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Description: | Portrait, head and shoulders of Frederick Jackson Turner, historian, scholar, and writer. As a freshman at the University of Wisconsin. |
Date: | 11 17 1909 |
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Description: | Colorized view depicting men and women office workers taking a break in a celebratory mode. Two of the women are taking a sheet off the calendar on the wal... |
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Description: | Newspaper workers perusing hundreds of photographs. There are three men holding some of the photographs and the rest are mounted on the walls around them. |
Date: | 03 16 1968 |
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Description: | Senator Robert F. Kennedy announcing his candidacy for the office of President of the United States. The announcement took place in the Caucus Room of the ... |
Date: | 1948 |
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Description: | John Jenkins, museum director, and Ruth K. Harris, museum curator, of the (then) State Historical Society of Wisconsin museum prepare a display case for an... |
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Description: | Robert Sarnoff (center), president of NBC, at a social gathering in Tokyo with Cecil Brown, the head of NBC's bureau in Tokyo, and Martha Brown. |
Date: | 1960 |
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Description: | During a visit to Japan, Danny Kaye, then one of the best known comedians and actors, prompted a typical response from Martha Brown, the wife of Cecil Brow... |
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Description: | Esther Van Wagoner Tufty, a nationally prominent journalist, whose papers are part of the collections of the Wisconsin Historical Society, chatting with Pr... |
Date: | 1936 |
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Description: | Holiday card for the Bancroft Dairy Company in Madison, Wisconsin. The card is folded so that as you open each panel, you see a new scene. Many different e... |
Date: | 1930 |
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Description: | Magician Ben Bergor of Madison with the stage equipment he used for his performances. |
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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. |
Date: | 1937 |
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Description: | Ben Bergor, a Madison area magician (standing third from the left), with a group of Chicago area magicians. Identified individuals are (seated, left to rig... |
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Description: | The Johnson Brothers, billed as "Clean, Fast, Swedish Comedy," was a musical comedy act based in Racine, Wisconsin. |
Date: | 1922 |
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Description: | Quarter-length publicity portrait of renowned escape artist Harry Houdini. |
Date: | 1919 |
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Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait of the renowned escape artist Harry Houdini. |
Date: | 1926 |
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Description: | Harry and Bess (Beatrice) Houdini in formal attire, the year of his death from acute appendicitis. |
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Description: | Joe Berg, a professional magician and magic dealer, who was based in Chicago. This autographed picture was presented to Ben Bergor, a Madison area magician... |
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