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It's Those Johnson Boys

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Description: The Johnson Brothers, billed as "Clean, Fast, Swedish Comedy," was a musical comedy act based in Racine, Wisconsin.
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Capital Offenses

Date: 1986
Description: Photograph taken to illustrate the jacket of a recording issued by the Capital Offenses, the blue grass band headed by Congressman David R. Obey of Wiscons...
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Blackface Musicians

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of three European American men, posing sitting. The men are wearing blackface make-up, and playing a guitar ...
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The Bards

Date: 05 11 1961
Description: 1962 may have been the start to a musical career for this Madison area vocal and instrumental trio, the Bards. Left to right are: Paul Skalet, Cross Plain...
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Group Portrait of Men and Women

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Description: Group portrait of four women and three men posing together in a room in front of a window. The man in the center is holding a banjo in his lap. The men are...
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Pete Seeger and Florence Reece

Date: 10 1982
Description: Pete Seeger and Florence Reece at Highlander Benefit Concert at Bijou Theater. The inscription written on Seeger's banjo reads: "This Machine Surrounds Hat...

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