Black and white 8 by 10 press photograph depicting three ventriloquist dummy figures styled in the manner of Charlie McCarthy, each dressed in top hat and formal attire, seated together on a stage or set. The three matching figures create a striking repeated image that was likely used to illustrate a newspaper or magazine story about ventriloquism, Edgar Bergen, or a related entertainment subject.
The verso bears a typed press release caption with a yellow agency label, stamped ROTO indicating this print was prepared for rotogravure newspaper reproduction. The caption text references the Stone Barry Charlie Bergen dummies and a Sunday edition publication date of December 12, with a manufacturing credit visible. Press prints prepared for rotogravure reproduction are an important category of mid-twentieth century entertainment press ephemera.
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