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Sigma Alpha Iota Benefit Musicale

Date: 02 05 1959
Description: Charlotte Burr (left) and Margaret Wilber, standing, inspecting the musical program for the Sigma Alpha Iota Benefit Musicale. Seated is Nancy Becknell, an...
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Philharmonic Rehearsal

Date: 03 31 1959
Description: The Philharmonic Chorus of Madison rehearses a portion of a Bach motet with accompanist Julia Benoy Landmark, seated. Left to right, they are: Elizabeth Bo...
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Historical Society Gets Player Piano

Date: 11 22 1959
Description: Eileen Ryan, a secretary of the Wisconsin State Historical Society, is shown looking over the player piano given to the society by Berniece LaFlash. The so...
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Telephone Pioneers Aid Hospital Unit

Date: 01 25 1960
Description: Southwest Wisconsin Council of the Telephone Pioneers of America, as their community service project, present a piano to the Children's Unit of University ...
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University League Tea

Date: 06 28 1960
Description: Group portrait of members of the University League and its Junior division who are in charge of arrangements for a tea for visiting faculty wives and facul...
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Nakoma Twelfth Night Party

Date: 01 05 1961
Description: Scenes from "Here We Go Again", an amateur variety show put on as entertainment for the 1961 Twelfth Night party at Nakoma School. Two former residents, Ch...
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Madison Theater Guild's Carousel

Date: 04 03 1961
Description: Two men at podiums watch a rehearsal. At upper left is Marvin Foster, musical director and orchestra leader. At lower right is Al Barraclough, managing dir...
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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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Carnival of Music at Blackhawk Country Club

Date: 07 15 1961
Description: Posing in amusing costumes representing well-known songs of the day are (seated) Francis and Betty Coon and (standing) Dorothy and Kenneth Lindquist.
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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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Empty Stocking Fund Television Benefit Show

Date: 11 30 1963
Description: Nine eighth grade girls rehearsing for the long television benefit for the Empty Stocking Fund at WISC-TV, co-sponsored by the Wisconsin State Journal
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Fitts Family Packs to Move Again

Date: 02 18 1964
Description: Mrs. Jay Meredith Fitts sitting in an antique Victorian chair in her old farm house on Old Sauk Road near Gammon Road (the old Carl Meyer place), preparing...
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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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Scroll Sceen Play by Sherman Elementary School Students

Date: 12 02 1953
Description: Fourth grade students viewing the scroll screen play which they had produced. The play, "A Day in the Jungle" was planned and coordinated by their teacher,...
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Duke Ellington Band Concert

Date: 03 04 1954
Description: Duke Ellington at the keyboard at a jazz big band concert in the University of Wisconsin Stock Pavilion.
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Delta Tau Delta's Christmas Party

Date: 12 1954
Description: Fraternity member, Ted Stowe, playing piano as black and white children sing along at the Christmas party for the children of the South Side Community Cent...
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Music Rings Out from Campus

Date: 07 13 1957
Description: Six participants of the Music Clinic in University of Wisconsin's Bernard Hall are shown in a jam session. They are the "Dixie Landers" playing "As the Sai...
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Thomas E. Jones Family Reunion

Date: 08 16 1957
Description: Thomas E. Jones family portrait at their home on Chadbourne Avenue. Standing are their son and daughter, E. Thomas Jones and Mrs. Elizabeth Thomas. Darcey ...
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Dr. John A. Schindler Family — Wife

Date: 10 24 1957
Description: Dorothea, wife of Dr. Schindler, sitting at a piano with sheet music. She studied piano with Olive Endres of Madison.
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Youth Group Plan Dance

Date: 12 27 1957
Description: Working on plans for the upcoming "Jingle Bell Rock" dance for youth are sitting (left to right): Kathy Seifert and Karen Strand, and (standing) are Karen ...

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