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Fall Festival Entertainers

Date: 09 08 1930
Description: Four women are playing banjos in the McVicar Photo Service Booth at the 1930 East Side Businessman's Association (ESBMA) Fall Festival.
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Four Lakes Boy Scouts Drum & Bugle Corps

Date: 05 14 1945
Description: Group portrait of the all-Eagle Four Lakes Boy Scouts Drum and Bugle Corps with their director, from Madison, Wisconsin.
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Accordion and Guitar Players

Date: 03 11 1936
Description: Man playing accordion and man playing guitar at the Town Club Tavern, located at 2501 Sherman Avenue.
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Community Chest Fund Luncheon

Date: 10 11 1948
Description: The Madison Community Chest campaign kick-off luncheon at Grace Episcopal Church. Shown at the speakers table, clockwise from the left are: F. Halsey Kraeg...
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Gray Ladies of the Dane County Red Cross

Date: 11 01 1948
Description: Gray Ladies of the Dane County Red Cross serving tea to two unidentified patients at the Mendota hospital for the mentally ill. Left to right are: Mrs. H. ...
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Phi Beta's "A Combine of Comedy"

Date: 02 07 1949
Description: Cecile Vogelbaugh, center, director of music for the production of Phi Beta's "A Combine of Comedy," is consulting with Beverly Ethun, 202 Dunning Street, ...
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University of Wisconsin International Club Ball

Date: 03 28 1949
Description: Ruth Lerdau, of Lima, Peru, playing the guitar at the University of Wisconsin's International Club Ball at the Memorial Union.
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Madison Maennerchor Director and Accompanist

Date: 02 28 1952
Description: Director of the Madison Maennerchor Alexius Baas confers with accompanist Grace Snell prior to the group's centennial concert. They are Wisconsin's oldest ...
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U.W. International Club Costume Ball

Date: 03 24 1952
Description: William Chipman, a participant at the University of Wisconsin International Club Costume Ball, wearing an authentic Scottish Royal Stuart costume and playi...
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Loft Open House Entertainers

Date: 05 20 1952
Description: Dave Ross, a West High School student, is playing the piano for a group of fellow students from Madison's various high schools. They are the entertainers w...
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Jerry Billington's Orchestra

Date: 05 22 1953
Description: Four members of Jerry Billington's Orchestra gather at the piano during the Cosmos Dance Club 30th Anniversary dinner dance. The orchestra has played for t...
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Prof. Raymond Dvorak

Date: 03 22 1954
Description: Professor Raymond Dvorak stands beside a grandfather clock in the hallway of his home at 2001 Jefferson Street, decorated with oriental rugs. Mr. Dvorak, d...
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Sigma Alpha Iota Music Sorority Alumnae

Date: 06 07 1956
Description: Maxine E. Toynton and Mrs. Roger Iverson (Iverson is from Minneapolis, Minnesota) attend an alumnae group of Sigma Alpha Iota.
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Philharmonic Chorus

Date: 02 22 1958
Description: Members of the Philharmonic Chorus hold a rehearsal reception in Esther Hall of the YWCA. Two prominent Madison musicians pictured are, left to right, Vera...
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Red Arrow Division Veterans Day Party

Date: 11 11 1958
Description: The annual Dane County 32nd Division Red Arrow Veterans Day party was held at the Towne Club. Guests included World War I and World War II division members...
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Red Cross Volunteer Thank You Tea

Date: 12 1959
Description: Mrs. Elizabeth A. Risser (left) chatting with her husband's mother, Mrs. Elizabeth W. Risser. Elizabeth is one of the Margaret Rupp Cooper harpists who pro...
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Four Lakes Council Boy Scout Drum and Bugle Corps

Date: 10 1953
Description: Instructor Stan Stitgen of the Four Lakes Council Boy Scout Drum and Bugle Corps gives marching cadence lessons during a junior corps rehearsal. Students i...
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Four Lakes Council Boy Scout Drum and Bugle Corps

Date: 10 1953
Description: John Price (center), 2905 Monroe Street, is a member of the nationally famous senior Four Lakes Drum and Bugle Corps and bugles at a junior corps rehearsal...
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Four Lakes Council Boy Scout Drum and Bugle Corps

Date: 10 1953
Description: Instructor Henry Johnson of the Four Lakes Council Boy Scout Drum and Bugle Corps checks technique of the junior drum and bugle corps members Jim Archer, 1...
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Parade at Midwest Shrine Convention

Date: 09 07 1956
Description: Osman Temple drummers from St. Paul, Minnesota take part in the Midwest Shrine parade as it moves around the corner of South Carroll and West Main Streets....

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