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| Date: | 09 08 1930 |
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| Description: | Four women are playing banjos in the McVicar Photo Service Booth at the 1930 East Side Businessman's Association (ESBMA) Fall Festival. |
| Date: | 09 24 1939 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of Milwaukee Railroad Service Club convention in Crystal Ballroom of Loraine Hotel. A group people are in front posing with musical instrume... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Portrait of two men sitting in a room lined with bookshelves. There is a banjo leaning in the corner next to a window. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Man in dormitory or fraternity playing banjo. There are signs that say "University of Missouri" and "Don't be woozy" above the door. There are photos and c... |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Pete Seeger at Highlander Folk School, possibly at a 25th anniversary celebration, where he was in charge of music. Playing an Orpheum #1 open-back five st... |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Pete Seeger playing the 5-string banjo at the 25th Anniversary of Highlander Folk School in the Library building. |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | A crowd gathers to watch men and women dance the polka at the Verona Legion Hall. A man plays a banjo in the background. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Six musicians pose in front of a backdrop with their instruments, including saxophones, clarinets, a banjo, drums and trumpet with mutes. The drum has bee... |
| Date: | 09 1977 |
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| Description: | Pete Seeger with a banjo performing at a picnic, perhaps a fund-raising event, for the "Guardian," a radical weekly newspaper. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A view of cowboys posing outside of their log cabin dwelling. Three stand against the wall, while four sit. The sitter on the right has a banjo. In the lef... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | The Serenaders, a dance band based in Kiel. The drum indicates that the band was headed by Si Mahlberg. |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Clara Case Middleton stands behind a rocking chair beyond a curtained doorway. In the front room, a zither and banjo are displayed near a parlor organ. |
| Date: | 02 19 1938 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Stanley and the Original Revelers, a five-piece band. The men are all dressed in white coats with dark collars and bow ties. Four of the musici... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Interior view of Alladin, Hayward's Smart Nite Club showing musical instruments on the stage. Instruments include, from left to right, a drum set, saxophon... |
| Date: | 1986 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 05 11 1961 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 01 23 1957 |
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| Description: | Nationally famous Dukes of Dixieland performing at the Shuffle-Inn at 967 South Park Street. Frank Assuto is playing the trumpet, Fred Assuto is playing tr... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Philip George Brumder posing with a banjo, sitting in an easy chair in the living room of the family home at 2030 East Lafayette Place. There is sheet musi... |
| Date: | 10 1982 |
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| 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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