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"Hawaiian Group" Four-Piece Country Band
"Hawaiian Group," a four-piece country band made up of (left to right): Martin Angus, Al Flansberg, Jack Pennywell, and George Gilbertson. Their instruments include lap steel guitars, upright bass...
Goose Island Ramblers
1972
The Goose Island Ramblers performing at Johnny's Packers Inn. Their instruments include accordions, guitar, and a fiddle. Tommy McDermott sits in on a button accordion.
Goose Island Ramblers Band
1960
The Goose Island Ramblers (left to right): George Gilbertsen on fiddle, "Wendy" Whitford on guitar, and Bruce Bollard on jug and piano accordion.
The Hoedowners, A Country Western Trio
1950
The Hoedowners, a country western trio consisting of Wendell "Wendy" Whitford, fiddleplayer; Donna Jean Lundeberg, piano accordian; and Vern Minor, guitar, playing each other's instruments.
Goose Island Ramblers
Original Goose Island Ramblers posing with their instruments. (Left-right) "Stubby" Stuvatraa, Wendell "Wendy" Whitford, Alvin "Salty" Haugen and Vern Minor.
Three Musicians in Blackface and Costume
Three musicians, two males with banjos and possibly a woman with a guitar, pose in blackface and costumes for a studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop.
