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Parade on the Capitol Square

Date: 1910
Description: A parade turning the corner from Wisconsin Avenue on to the Capitol Square. A horse-drawn wagon in the foreground carries a May Pole and dancers from the K...
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Maypole Dancers on Bascom Hill

Date: 1916
Description: Maypole dancers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Bascom Hill (Main Hill). In the foreground is the Lincoln Monument. In the distance is the Wiscon...
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Unidentified Man Dancing

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Description: An unidentified man dancing for a group of onlookers in Black River Falls during the 1908 Homecoming Celebration. He is wearing a Sioux-style eagle feather...
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Maypole Dance on Bascom Hill

Date: 05 1916
Description: A view looking down on the Maypole Dance at the May Fete on Bascom Hill, showing dancers around four different Maypoles. In the foreground is the Lincoln M...
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Raftsman's Series No. 1405: Pastime. Dick Dancing For The Boys

Date: 1886
Description: Stereograph of a group of men standing and sitting on a raft, watching Dick Stevenson in the center dancing. Zack Dugas is at left clapping time, and Jack ...
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Dancers Frolic Among the Trees

Date: 1923
Description: University of Wisconsin physical education interpretive dance students perform out of doors in a grassy meadow.
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Directing an "Action Song"

Date: 1919
Description: Miss Streeter leading school children in the "shoemaker's song". Another woman is standing near a Victrola. The children are outdoors under trees. Possibly...
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May Pole Dance

Date: 05 22 1935
Description: West Junior High School girls rehearsing May Pole Dance.
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Children Performing May-Pole Dance

Date: 1919
Description: School children standing ready to begin a May-pole dance.
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Frederick Kehl with Group at Party

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Description: Portrait of Frederick Kehl, founder of the Kehl School of Dance in Madison, Wisconsin, with a large group, probably taken at a party at his Florida home.
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Dancers at Hillside

Date: 1905
Description: Elevated view of students at the Hillside Home School performing a may pole dance while an audience looks on. Dance instruction at the school was provided ...
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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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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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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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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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Menominee War Dance

Date: 1842
Description: Menominee war dance, as depicted by Francois, Comte de Castelnau, a French naturalist and diplomat who visited Green Bay, Wisconsin about 1838. This detail...
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Line Dancers

Date: 01 10 1993
Description: "On a Sunday evening at G & Z's Hall, country and western line dancers step out smartly to the music."
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Folk Dancing

Date: 1931
Description: Three couples of school age children perform a folk dance outdoors in the grass. The boys wear knickers and patterned stockings; the girls are in dresses. ...

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