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Fall Festival Entertainers

Date: 09 08 1930
Description: Four women are playing banjos in the McVicar Photo Service Booth at the 1930 East Side Businessman's Association (ESBMA) Fall Festival.
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Taliesin West Festival

Date: 1958
Description: Dance and singing performance during a festival at Taliesin West. The theater was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and built by the Fellowship. Taliesin West...
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Latin-American Dancers

Date: 07 19 1944
Description: Left to right, Mary Ann Yanover and Joyce Radu, dancers in the annual Latin-American Festival held at the Wisconsin Memorial Union, University of Wisconsin...
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Latin-American Festival Dancers

Date: 07 20 1944
Description: Left to right, Armando Huacuja and Berta Montemayor Koch, natives of Mexico, dance at the annual Latin-American Festival held at the Wisconsin Memorial Uni...
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Madison Woman's Club Christmas Folk Festival

Date: 12 15 1949
Description: Christine Brinsmade is shown in Mexican costume doing an authentic Mexican dance at the Madison Woman's Club "Posada Mexicana" Christmas folk festival.
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Cranberry Harvest Party

Date: 1885
Description: Large group of cranberry harvesters posing with implements. Many of the individuals are wearing boutonnières and corsages made from cranberry sprigs. Many ...
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Lake Edge Congregational Church Christmas Bazaar Picture

Date: 11 11 1954
Description: Mrs. Herbert Szelestey of 5410 Esther Beach Road puts the finishing touches on the first of several large pictures that illustrate the old song, "An Old-Fa...
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Lake Edge Congregational Church Christmas Bazaar Trellis

Date: 11 11 1954
Description: Mrs. Elwin Willett of 4115 Jerome Street (left) and Mrs. Robert (Helen) Brettell of 4603 Gordon Avenue, president of the Ladies Fellowship at Lake Edge Con...
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Queen of Peace Bazaar

Date: 11 13 1954
Description: Women's Catholic Order of Foresters Court 597 at Madison's Our Lady Queen of Peace bazaar committee admire articles that will be on sale. From left are: an...
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Madison's First Folk Festival and Fair

Date: 04 03 1959
Description: An authentic Scandinavian smorgasbord will be the key attraction at Madison's first Folk Festival and Fair sponsored and held at the YWCA, 122 State Street...
Poster

Joseph Papp presents Festival Latino in New York

Date: 08 1986
Description: Poster promoting the 1986 New York Festival Latino, which was founded in 1976, produced by Joseph Papp, a Broadway producer, and directed by Oscar Ciccone ...
Poster

Film Festival Rotterdam: Guests of '87

Date: 1987
Description: Poster advertising filmmakers in attendance at the 1987 Film Festival Rotterdam, in the Netherlands. The poster shows 49 photographs of the 53 filmmakers. ...
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Louise Wiseman Performs at Talent Show

Date: 09 1990
Description: Louise Wiseman performs at talent show dressed in lace lingerie. The stage is decorated with pumpkins and cornstalks.
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Group of Usherettes

Date: 1950
Description: Usherettes perform Swiss folk dances for the annual William Tell Festival.
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Military Band at the Hustler Harvest Festival

Date: 1915
Description: An African American military band poses for the camera during the Hustler Harvest Festival. They are sitting in an open sided structure with a canvas roof ...
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Mapleleaf Parade

Date: 09 2013
Description: Oktoberfest frolickers on parade during the Mapleleaf Parade on 2nd Street. Carie Ann (Schlichenmeyer) Finch and man in the foreground are wearing ethnic c...
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Grace Episcopal Church Harvest Festival

Date: 11 20 1961
Description: Marjorie Slothower, 305 Norris Court, left, and Gretchen Sienering, 114 West Gilman Street, speaking with Reverend Paul Hoornstra, pastor of Grace Episcopa...
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Equinox Festival

Date: 09 09 1978
Description: A group portrait of musicians posing with a banner at the Equinox Festival. Seated in front from left to right are Tony Castaneda, drummer Ken Koepler (kne...
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On Stage

Date: 07 2014
Description: Shannon McNally is standing on a stage under a tent at the annual La Fete de Marquette Festival, playing guitar and singing roots and blues songs. She is a...
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Millie Rudella and Herman Comfort at Polish Fest

Date: 08 13 1989
Description: A man and a woman are dancing the polka. Caption reads: "Millie Rudella of Greendale and Herman Comfort of West Allis were among the many polka fans at Pol...

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