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Military Band at Lookout Mountain

Date: 1864
Description: Albumen stereograph of the Union Army brass band posed and playing atop Lookout Point. The Tennessee River is in the background.
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Vinnie Ream Hoxie Studio in U.S. Capitol

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Description: A view of Vinnie Ream Hoxie studio in the U.S. Capitol showing busts, figures and medallions of her creation.
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Lynn Fontanne and Alfred Lunt

Date: 1931
Description: Lynn Fontanne and Alfred Lunt in a scene from "Reunion in Vienna."
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Riverboat With Lumberjacks

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Description: Five lumberjacks, one of whom is playing the fiddle, pose by a docked riverboat with a rowboat nearby.
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Stoughton Boy Scouts

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Description: Stoughton, Wisconsin Boy Scouts of America Troop No. 1 group portrait with a dog in the front of the group. One of the members is holding a trumpet.
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Street Musician with Violin and Dog

Date: 1915
Description: A street musician named Frank Ritter playing violin on a city sidewalk (possibly in Chicago), with a dog leashed to his belt. A tin cup is attached to the ...
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African American Tenant Farmers at Barbecue

Date: 02 22 1915
Description: African American tenant farmers assembled for a barbecue. The tenants worked for Louis Frank Sessions who is in the front row, third from the left (wearing...
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Renaissance Faire

Date: 1909
Description: A group of people dressed up in medieval-style clothing.
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Ole Bull

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Description: World-renowned Norwegian violinist Ole Bull shown here with his violin under his arm. Bull was good friends with University of Wisconsin Professor Rasmus A...
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Ganna Walska in Operatic Costume with Lyre

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Description: Full-length portrait of Polish opera singer Ganna Walska adorned in operatic costume holding a lyre. Ms. Walska was the second wife of Harold Fowler McCorm...
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African American School Band

Date: 1914
Description: African-American school band assembled in a lecture hall at the Piney Woods Country Life School with Agricultural Extension Department workers and charts i...
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Ole Bull

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Description: Monograph of famous Norwegian violinist Ole Bull holding his violin and bow.
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Dolton School Boys Band

Date: 06 1916
Description: Outdoor group portrait of the Dolton School Boys Band. Original caption reads: "Dolton School Boys Band who furnished the music throughout the day for the ...
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International Harvester Women's Choral Society

Date: 01 31 1926
Description: Group portrait of the members of International Harvester's women's choral society. The members worked in the company's general office. A woman in the front...
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Madison Concert Orchestra

Date: 08 29 1937
Description: Madison Concert Orchestra members with their instruments seated on a "stage" under trees at Vilas Park. The conductor is standing in front. Groups of U.S. ...
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First Radiophone Band

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Description: The first radiophone band in the United States marches on the Universtiy of Wisconsin campus.
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Don Voegeli

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Description: Don Voegeli seated at an organ.
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Circus Group

Date: 1892
Description: A large group of circus performers and personnel, including a clown and band members, pose in front of a tent.
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Circus Show Buggy and Bandwagon

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Description: Dode Fisk, the operator of a dog and pony show and circus, drives a wire-wheeled show buggy pulled by the horse "Bobby". They are photographed next to a ...
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Group of Circus Musicians

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Description: Musicians with the Gollmar Brothers Circus pose in front of banners advertising the circus sideshow features near the entrance to the museum annex tent.

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