John Garfield reclining, New York
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content: Joseph, Katherine
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content: Hertzberg, Suzanne
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content: Katherine Joseph Papers
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content: Katherine Joseph Papers / Series 4: Photographic Prints and Negatives
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content: Box 4, Folder 1
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content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Photographs
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content: These two images were identified by John Garfield's daughter Julie Garfield to have been taken in his apartment in New York. Note the puppet in the upper left corner. Julie identifies this as a Bil Baird puppet;John Garfield was close to Bil Baird. Baird and his wife Cora created the "Bil and Cora Baird Marionettes" and produced children's programming for both live theater and television, which Julie Garfield describe as the Sesame Street of their day (Baird mentored and influenced Jim Henson). Julie reports that Baird was blacklisted; a biography of Cora Baird (nee Cora Eisenberg) states that they employed blacklisted performers for their TV shows.