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Beechnut Gum Girls

Date: 1935
Description: Beechnut Gum girls, posed in front of an automobile, promoting the product for a national advertising campaign.
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Nakoma's Twelfth Night Party

Date: 01 06 1959
Description: Nakoma's Twelfth Night Party features the historical pageantry of the Twelfth Night tradition. Royal trumpeters who heralded the evening's festivities at t...
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Zonta Plans Inter-City Event

Date: 03 25 1959
Description: A program by the Madison Recorder group and the Madison Folk Dance group will be featured at the inter-city meeting of representatives from Zonta Clubs of ...
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University League Tea

Date: 07 07 1959
Description: Mrs. Elizabeth Sarig and Mrs. Florence Dvorak visit with Mrs. Allen Fisher of Ontario, Canada at the University League tea to honor wives of visiting summe...
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New Clarinets for the Wisconsin Band for the Rose Bowl

Date: 12 17 1959
Description: Professor Ray Dvorak, director of university bands, receives a white clarinet from Boris Josheff, president of the Josheff Music Store, Inc. His store is t...
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Municipal Band Concert Soloists

Date: 05 05 1960
Description: Marilyn Cirves, harp; James Kowalsky, trumpet; James Abraham, trombone; and Robert Parker, bassoon, are four of the soloists to be heard at the Madison Mun...
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University of Wisconsin Concert Band

Date: 06 04 1960
Description: Raymond F. Dvorak, center, University of Wisconsin bands director, conducting the concert band at pre-commencement exercises on the Memorial Union Terrace.
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Madison Scouts Drum and Bugle Corps Dinner Meeting

Date: 10 26 1960
Description: Five men holding trumpets at a dinner meeting for parents of Madison Scouts Drum and Bugle Corps at Our Lady Queen of Peace Church.
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University of Wisconsin Marching Band Banquet

Date: 11 21 1960
Description: University of Wisconsin marching band officials pose in front of a plastic replica of a tuba at Madison Chamber of Commerce banquet honoring the band. From...
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Doc DeHaven Dixieland Combo Appears with Madison Municipal Band

Date: 05 06 1961
Description: Doc DeHaven Dixieland Combo appears with the Madison Municipal Band at their annual Spring Concert at the Central High School auditorium. Appearing with Do...
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The Bards

Date: 05 11 1961
Description: 1962 may have been the start to a musical career for this Madison area vocal and instrumental trio, the Bards. Left to right are: Paul Skalet, Cross Plain...
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Spanish Classes at Edgewood Campus School

Date: 05 10 1961
Description: Third grade students at the Edgewood Campus School study Spanish for 20 minutes four days a week. Their teacher is Sister M. Catherine, O.P. At a demonstra...
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Members of the Baroque Ensemble Provide Music at YWCA Tea

Date: 07 13 1960
Description: Members of the Baroque Ensemble provide music at the YWCA invitational membership and leadership tea held at the home of Dr. and Mrs. A.G. (Phyllis) Jacobs...
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Annual Scholarship Tea of the University League

Date: 03 11 1961
Description: Two graduate students from Indonesia — right, Zanzawi Soejoeti of Java, and Jahja S. Lubis of Sumatra — will be among the musicians at the annual scholarsh...
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Memorial Day

Date: 05 30 1961
Description: Pamela Mash (3 1/2 years old) is shown holding her ears as she stands next to her mother who is playing trombone with the VFW band. The concert was part of...
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University of Wisconsin Freshman Convocation

Date: 09 10 1961
Description: U.W. President Conrad Elvehjem speaks at the podium on the Field House stage. He advised the students to "buckle down" to their studies. On the left, tuba ...
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A.R. Chatman with His Spinet Harpsichord

Date: 12 12 1961
Description: A.R. Chatman, 1618 Sunfield Street, sitting at his spinet harpsichord.
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East High School Commencement Day Band Recital Scene

Date: 06 14 1963
Description: Close-up view of five trumpet players. Names (l to r) Norm Frater, Sandy Holdbrook, Marcia Ziebarth (wearing a graduation cap), Rick Moe and Ken Connor.

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Duo-Art Piano

Date: 02 04 1965
Description: Chester Kuharski adjusting a roll on his reproducing piano. The Duo-Art piano performs in three ways — as a regular piano, a player piano, and as a reprodu...
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Middleton Good Neighbor Festival

Date: 08 27 1965
Description: Canada's internationally famous all-Indian band, the Chieftones, performing at the Middleton Good Neighbor Festival.

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