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Mount Zion Baptist and St. Paul's A.M.E. Choirs

Date: 04 11 1937
Description: Group portrait of African American choirs from Mount Zion Baptist Church and St. Paul's A.M.E. Church, taken at Mount Zion, 548 W. Johnson Street. (?) Top...
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Singers Reading "The Capital Times"

Date: 08 19 1931
Description: Three women of "The Singing Sinners," a vaudeville act at the Orpheum Theater, are reading "The Capitol Times" serial story "Guilty Lips," in their dressin...
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Emery DeNoyer

Date: 07 26 1941
Description: Emery DeNoyer (b.1887), singer of lumberjack songs. "He earned his keep in the Wisconsin lumber camps not by logging (for he only had only one eye and one ...
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Charlie Spencer

Date: 07 28 1941
Description: Charlie Spencer (b.1873?), a Kentuckian who migrated to Crandon, recorded white spirituals for song collector Helene Stratman-Thomas. He is sitting in a ch...
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Lily Richmond Sitting Outside

Date: 08 23 1946
Description: Aunt Lily Richmond sang African American spirituals for song collector Helene Stratman-Thomas. Richmond came to Grant County Wisconsin with her parents, fr...
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Ben and Olivia Goldenberger

Date: 1910
Description: Ben Goldenberger and his sister Olivia face each other over a small table. There is a menorah on the bookcase in the background. Ben would later change his...
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The Incomparable Hildegarde

Date: 03 1941
Description: Hildegarde Loretta Sell, better known as Hildegarde, was a well known cabaret singer who was born in Adell, Wisconsin in 1906 and raised in New Holstein. D...
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Carolers For Roundy's Fun Fund

Date: 12 22 1957
Description: "Roundy" (Joseph Coughlin) is sitting in a chair while holding an envelope he received from Christmas carolers Lea Heifetz, Janice Huza, and Patty Walker. ...
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Benefit Musicale at St. Francis House

Date: 03 19 1957
Description: Portrait of the group of madrigal singers who performed at the Benefit Musicale at St. Francis House. They include, from left: Raleigh Williams, Ruth Horra...
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80th Anniversary Founding of Swiss Colony

Date: 08 16 1925
Description: A chorus of men singing on stage with a crowd watching. A group of officials seated on the right. Rolling farmland in the background.
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Frank Zappa and Mothers of Invention Backstage

Date: 10 20 1971
Description: Ian Underwood, Don Preston, Howard Kayland, Gail Zappa, and Frank Zappa discuss science around a backstage table at the Milwaukee Arena following a show by...
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Eddie Cantor

Date: 09 19 1950
Description: Eddie Cantor, sitting in a chair wearing a robe and gesturing with his hands.
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Eddie Cantor

Date: 08 03 1946
Description: Eddie Cantor sitting in a chair backwards.
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Local SPEBSQSA Group Rehearsal

Date: 02 23 1954
Description: The local group for the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop Quartet Singing in America (SPEBSQSA) rehearsing for an international ...
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Olivia Monona

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Description: Informal portrait of Olivia Monona sitting in a chair in the Goldenbeger home on East Hamilton Street. Bookshelves cover the wall in the background.

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