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Maypole Dance on Bascom Hill

Date: 1916
Description: Maypole Dance at the May Fete on Bascom Hill. Just visible at the top of the photograph is the new Wisconsin State Capitol, completed except for the north ...
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Dancers at Taliesin

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Description: Dancers at a celebration on the grounds at Taliesin. Taliesin was the summer home of Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Fellowship. Taliesin is located in...
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Kehl's School of Dance

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Description: The Kehl School of Dance Building, 309 West Johnson Street, later the Madison Labor Temple, which was built in 1898.
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Kehl's Dancing Academy

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Description: Kehl's Dancing Academy, later used as the Labor Temple. A roofed entrance is over the sidewalk.
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Kehl Winery

Date: 02 18 1960
Description: Stone building (winery) in winter. Kehl Winery operated from 1867 to 1899. It later became a dance hall. Excerpt from Sauk Prairie Star, Sauk City, 18 Febr...
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Drum Majorette

Date: 06 26 1948
Description: Mrs. Schafer (?) in a drum majorette costume in a marching position with a baton and wearing boots, posing outdoors near a house.
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Semi-Centennial Pow Wow

Date: 1908
Description: Drummers and dancers at Semi-Centennial Pow Wow. Spectators are in the background, and a canvas is stretched around the clearing to make an enclosure. Buil...
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Pow Wow Scene

Date: 1908
Description: Drummers and dancers at pow wow led by Chief Winneshiek, below Lutheran Church in a canvas enclosure.
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Women Dancing in Field

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Description: Two women dance barefoot in tall grass while another woman sits on the ground and tends to her feet, probably Mrs. J.J. McGillivray.
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Women Dancing a Routine

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Description: Four young women dancing outdoors in a synchronized line, probably at Rock Spring Park.
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Girl Dancng with Older Man on Announcers Platform

Date: 08 15 1942
Description: A young girl dances with an older man wearing a cone-shaped hat and a tie on the announcers platform at a Civilian Defense Rally. To the far left a microph...
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Young Girl Dancing on Announcers Platform

Date: 08 15 1942
Description: A young girl dances near a man wearing a tie on the announcer's platform at a Civilian Defense Rally. To the far left a microphone is visible, and in the b...
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Maypole Dancers

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Description: A group of women in white skirts and wearing caps are dancing around a tall maypole. A crowd is watching in the background, and a dog is running in front o...
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Man Dancing

Date: 04 25 1970
Description: A man wearing a hat, shorts, and fringed vest, with a pipe strung onto hit belt loop, dances among a crowd of other audience members at the Sound Storm mus...
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Nude Man Dancing on U-Haul Truck

Date: 04 25 1970
Description: A nude man with long hair dances on top of a U-Haul moving truck. Two people in the foreground are near a Sunn brand amplifier on the bottom right.
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Man Dancing on Stage

Date: 04 25 1970
Description: A man wearing a beret with two buttons on it dances across the stage. An audience member on the left is also dancing, and stagehands and photographers crow...
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Chameleon Club

Date: 2005
Description: Exterior view of the "Chameleon Club" and "Moonlight Dance Studio."
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Nakoma School Graduation Parties

Date: 06 10 1953
Description: Portrait of Irwin Smith and Kay Keliher at a dance at Nakoma Country Club for Nakoma School graduates.
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Spectators Watching Native American Dance

Date: 1930
Description: View of a Native American man dancing and wearing traditional dress and a headdress. A group of younger boys, some wearing traditional dress, watch him fro...
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Ward Allen's Public House

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Description: "Ward Allen, former weather reporter for Channel 6, Milwaukee, purchased the dance hall in Theresa, and is operating it under the name of 'Ward Allen's Pub...

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