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Children and Adults Participating in Milwaukee Labor Day Parade

Date: 09 03 1945
Description: The 6th Ward Contingent represented a community on the march. Black men, women and children from the CIO and AF of L, from small business, brought a messa...
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Performers at UAW Christmas Party

Date: 12 13 1947
Description: Children of members of Local 75, United Automobile Workers (Seaman Body Company) performing at the union Christmas party. There are accordion players and a...
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Steelworkers Costume Party

Date: 12 20 1947
Description: Members of Local 1114, United Steelworkers of America (Harnischfeger Corporation) at a holiday costume party.
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Steelworkers Costume Party Winners

Date: 11 08 1947
Description: Prize winners at a costume dance sponsored by Local 1114, United Steelworkers of America (Harnischfeger Corporation).
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Doing Dishes

Date: 1920
Description: A woman washing dishes outdoors in a washtub.
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Bessie Gordon at Reed Organ

Date: 08 13 1941
Description: Bessie Gordon (b. 1901) at the cut-down reed organ under the tavern counter.
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Mr. and Mrs. Moody Price

Date: 07 30 1946
Description: Mrs. and Mrs. Moody Price. Mrs. Price recorded a tune for song collector Helene Stratman-Thomas.
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Winifred Bundy and Bill Morgan

Date: 08 04 2004
Description: Winifred Bundy, secretary of the School of Music at UW-Madison, and her uncle, Bill Morgan. Both recorded for song collector Helene Stratman-Thomas.
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Singers Posing Outdoors

Date: 08 08 1946
Description: Possibly Adelord Joseph Vanasse (b. 1877?) and Stanilaus Phaneuf (b. 1869), singers who recorded for song collector Helene Stratman-Thomas.
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Singer and Helene Stratman-Thomas

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Description: Probably Ernest Joseph Belisle (b. 1901), a singer who recorded for Helene Stratman-Thomas. Helene is standing on the right.
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Helene Stratman-Thomas

Date: 08 08 1946
Description: Helene Stratman-Thomas, possibly at the home of Donalda La Grandeur, a singer of French-Canadian songs who recorded for Stratman-Thomas.
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Singer and Helene Stratman-Thomas

Date: 08 08 1946
Description: Helene Stratman-Thomas and possibly Ernest Joseph Belisle.
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Dr. Charles Lindberg and Helene Stratman-Thomas

Date: 08 10 1946
Description: Helene Stratman-Thomas and Dr. Charles O. Lindberg, a Swedish singer.
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Helene Stratman-Thomas and Two Women

Date: 08 10 1946
Description: A group portrait of three women. (l to r) Song collector Helene Stratman-Thomas, Mrs. Kamma Grumstrup, a singer of old ballads in Danish, and possibly Beri...
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Ruth Olson and Alice Carlson

Date: 08 11 1946
Description: Ruth Olson (Mrs. Alf Olson) and Alice Carlson (Mrs. Gideon Carlson), singers of Swedish songs recorded by Helene Stratman-Thomas. Ruth and Alice were siste...
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Lily Richmond and a Woman

Date: 08 23 1946
Description: Aunt Lily Richmond (b.1862), right, with Ollie Greene Lewis.
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Lily Richmond Sitting Outside

Date: 08 23 1946
Description: Aunt Lily Richmond sang African American spirituals for song collector Helene Stratman-Thomas. Richmond came to Grant County Wisconsin with her parents, fr...
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Woman Working at Gisholt Plant

Date: 1944
Description: A woman operates a lathe at the Gisholt plant on East Washington Avenue.
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Woman and Baby Sitting by a Christmas Tree

Date: 01 03 1944
Description: Patricia Fitzpatrick and her mother Frances Risdon Fitzpatrick, seated by a Christmas tree with opened presents, including several stuffed animals. Patrici...
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King and Queen of the 25th International Show

Date: 02 01 1944
Description: Janice Eide of Lodi and Chester B. Van Roo of Wauwatosa with the horse, "Belgian Farceur." Eide and Van Roo are king and queen of the 25th Little Internati...

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