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Ambassador Club

Date: 06 21 1933
Description: Interior of Ambassador Club at Bernard's Park beyond Maple Bluff on Lake Mendota, dining and dancing, boat rides and picnicking featured. Music nightly by ...
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Orchestra in Pit

Date: 03 25 1932
Description: Orchestra sitting under an awning at the Chanticleer ballroom.
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Orchestra in Pit

Date: 03 25 1932
Description: Men in the orchestra are standing in a row posing at the Chanticleer ballroom.
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Chanticleer Dance Floor

Date: 03 28 1931
Description: Interior view of the Chanticleer dance floor, showing tables, bar, and bandstand.
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Chanticleer Band Leaving

Date: 03 25 1931
Description: The men in the Chanticleer band are posing in front of the stage in the ballroom holding their coats.
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Chanticleer Ballroom

Date: 03 25 1931
Description: Interior of the Chanticleer Ballroom showing bandstand, dance floor and tables. There is a large stone fireplace on the far back wall. Corner of Airport Ro...
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Chanticleer Ballroom Bandstand

Date: 03 25 1931
Description: Bandstand at the Chanticleer Ballroom showing the WIBA microphone above. Corner of Airport Road and Highway 12.
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Chanticleer Orchestra

Date: 03 25 1931
Description: The musicians of the Chanticleer orchestra sitting in the bandstand with their instruments and sheet music.
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Chanticleer Orchestra in Pit

Date: 02 21 1930
Description: Chanticleer orchestra with their instruments in the pit.
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Chanticleer Ballroom

Date: 01 16 1930
Description: Interior view of ballroom of Chanticleer Road House. Tables and chairs are set around the large rectangular room. A row of windows is along the right wall....
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Chanticleer Ballroom

Date: 01 16 1930
Description: Interior view of the Chanticleer Roadhouse ballroom. Along the right wall is the bandstand, and on the far wall in the background is a large fireplace.
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Broadway Gardens Orchestra

Date: 10 12 1929
Description: Ten musicians that make up the Broadway Gardens Orchestra posing on stage with their instruments.
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Menhall Band Pavilion

Date: 1926
Description: Brick band pavilion, with five steps leading to entrance, shrubbery around the exterior, and houses and trees in the background.
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Bandstand

Date: 1930
Description: View of the Bandstand surrounded by a lawn and trees.
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Soldiers Home Gazebo

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Description: Gazebo with a tree in front of it on the grounds of the Soldiers Home.
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Sauk County Fair

Date: 1906
Description: A double exposure of a landscape featuring a very large tree and farm houses superimposed on an image of buildings and crowds at the Sauk County Fairground...
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Pertle Springs and Bandstand

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Description: A view of a bandstand and Pertle Springs, an iron-rich spring whose name comes from William S. Purtle, the owner of the land in the early 1800's. A man sit...
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The Breakers Hotel, from Garden Pier

Date: 1916
Description: View of the Breakers Hotel taken from the Garden Pier. A pavilion and rows of wooden benches are to the left and a sign advertises "Luigi Valeno's Band." T...
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Illustration of Dancers

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Description: Couples are dancing and a man smoking a pipe is sitting in a chair watching. A band plays music on a bandstand in the background.
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Juarez Plaza

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Description: View of Juarez Plaza, a fashionable park square featuring a monument and an elaborately decorated bandstand. People gather on park benches and stand near t...

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