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| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Five women drummers with the Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey Circus posing with striped drums. They are wearing band uniforms, including large hats to... |
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| Description: | The Quaker Melody Boys on WIBA Radio. (Left to right): Al Beaument, announcer, George Gilbertsen, Smilin' Jim McCloskey, and Harry Edwards. |
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| Description: | "Hawaiian Group," a four-piece country band made up of (left to right): Martin Angus, Al Flansberg, Jack Pennywell, and George Gilbertson. Their instrumen... |
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| Description: | Three women and two men playing instruments and singing in a parlor. Man plays a bass, while a woman plays a guitar. |
| Date: | 03 25 1947 |
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| Description: | Cast members in costume at Longfellow School play, "The Bear's Dream". |
| Date: | 01 16 1948 |
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| Description: | Two children and one adult in a gymnastic pose at Madison's Turner Hall, 21 South Butler Street. |
| Date: | 04 05 1948 |
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| Description: | Martin Christiansen of Edgerton, the oldest fiddler at the Old-Time Fiddlers contest at the Madison Community Center. He is 77 and has been playing almost ... |
| Date: | 05 23 1948 |
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| Description: | Dr. Sigfrid Prager conducting the Madison Civic Symphony Orchestra, the Madison Civic Chorus, the University of Wisconsin chorus and soloists in his farewe... |
| Date: | 11 11 1948 |
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| Description: | East High School play, "The Goose Hangs High." The production staff is shown setting up for a performance. Pictured left to right: Lois Shoemaker and Margo... |
| Date: | 02 01 1949 |
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| Description: | Marilyn Eddy as Margaret, a nurse in a British hospital in Burma, in Madison Theater Guild's production of "The Hasty Heart". Also included is second negat... |
| Date: | 02 23 1949 |
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| Description: | Junior Red Cross variety show. James Stiene and Dick Grahn with sticks, work hard in the variety show's Chinese play under the supervision of Bob Pickarts.... |
| Date: | 02 23 1949 |
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| Description: | Junior Red Cross Variety Show at Washington School. Ruth Bowes, acrobat; Delores Spaanem, accordionist; Stefan Anderson, Master of Ceremonies. The students... |
| Date: | 03 02 1949 |
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| Description: | The Wisconsin Players presented "River Boat," an original centennial drama written by Robert Gard of Madison and Dore Reich of Milwaukee at the Memorial Un... |
| Date: | 03 11 1949 |
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| Description: | Shown are some of the players rehearsing for "Le Malade Imaginaire", the Moliere comedy which the U.W. department of French and Italian presented at the Wi... |
| Date: | 05 05 1949 |
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| Description: | Rehearsing for the Wisconsin Players production of "Bite the Dust" are left to right: Irving Kreutz as Six-Killer Onehorse; Patricia McKeene as Polly Pears... |
| Date: | 08 11 1949 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Carl (Lola) Waller, 2138 Chamberlin Avenue, and her neighbor, Mrs. Everett F. (Elsa) Johnson, 2130 Chamberlin Avenue, posing for a portrait while atte... |
| Date: | 08 11 1949 |
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| Description: | Professor and Mrs. John (Lois) Dietrich, 1218 Spring Street, at the Wisconsin Union theater for the opening of the Wisconsin Players' production of "The Ph... |
| Date: | 10 21 1949 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Lloyd W. (Mildred) Coleman, at left, and Mrs. J. Gibson (Marion) Winans, at right, playing a piano duet as part of the program for the Shorewood Hills... |
| Date: | 11 19 1949 |
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| Description: | Stan Stitgen, Norma Malmanger and Don Liebenberg, standing left to right, and Beth Mitchell, sitting, prepare for the special youth concert to be given by ... |
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