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Blackface Musicians

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of three European American men, posing sitting. The men are wearing blackface make-up, and playing a guitar ...
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Group of People Under a Tree

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of ten people posing sitting and standing in front of a large tree, with houses in the background. One man is holding a guitar, and ...
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The Bards

Date: 05 11 1961
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...
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Lighting the Capitol Christmas Tree

Date: 12 14 1983
Description: U.S. Representative David Obey, his wife Joan and their son Douglas pose with Connie G. Hicks (with guitar) and U.S. Representative Tom Petri. Between Doug...
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Merle Haggard

Date: 07 20 2013
Description: Merle Haggard on guitar at the Southside Oktoberfest Grounds. He is wearing a hat and sunglasses. Another guitarist is on the left.
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International Cudahy Packing Co. Scout

Date: 01 19 1962
Description: International Cudahy Packing Co. Scout. Original caption reads: "Photograph No. MQ-303-- A New International Scout gets into the act with the Cudahy Cowboy...
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Band at Oktoberfest

Date: 07 20 2013
Description: Country/folk/rock band playing and singing, prior to the Merle Haggard and the Strangers performance at the Southside Oktoberfest Grounds. They are wearing...
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Musicians

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Description: Interior portrait of five men and two women posing sitting and standing in a room holding musical instruments and sheet music.
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Playing Guitar

Date: 1940
Description: Emil Hertz sitting on a piano bench strumming a guitar in the Krueger home. Several portraits, a lamp, and two candles are on top of the piano.
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Emil Hertz Playing Guitar

Date: 1940
Description: Emil Hertz playing guitar while sitting on a piano bench set in the middle of the Krueger living room. Shirley and Robert Krueger are standing on either si...
Poster

"Orfeu Negro" (Black Orpheus) Film Poster

Date: 1964
Description: German film poster for the French-Brazilian film, "Orfeu Negro." Two figures from the waist-up, one wearing pink and one wearing red, standing and facing o...
Poster

"Unter Menschen" (On My Own) Film Poster

Date: 1956
Description: German film poster for re-release of the Russian film, "V lyudyakh." Illustrated image from the back of a man wearing a hat and coat. He is sitting with hi...
Poster

"Gorkis Kindheit" (The Childhood of Maxim Gorky) Film Poster

Date: 1956
Description: German film poster for the Russian film, "Detstvo Gorkogo." Illustrated image from the back of a man wearing a hat and coat. He is sitting with his feet up...
Poster

"Los muchachos de mi barrio" (The Boys from My Hood) Film Poster

Date: 1970
Description: Argentine film poster. Illustrated image of a man standing with one foot raised and resting on a post. Behind him a young woman stands holding a book, and ...
Poster

"Mi primera novia" (My First Girlfriend) Film Poster

Date: 1965
Description: Argentine film poster. Large, illustrated image of a man's head floating at the top with other smaller figures surrounding him. A band is playing on the le...
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Woody Guthrie

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Description: Woody Guthrie sitting on the ground at Highlander Folk School in New Market, Tennessee playing his guitar.
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A Hammock Outing

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Description: A group of people gathered on and around hammocks in a wooded area. Three women are sitting in a hammock on the left, and on the right three boys are sitti...
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Tom Wopat

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Description: Three-quarter length portrait of Tom Wopat, taken for the television show Prime Time Country. He is standing and has his left hand on the top of a g...
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Solidarity

Date: 08 2013
Description: A group of men and women gathered outdoors to protest the restriction of civil rights at the Wisconsin State Capitol at noontime. Three people are playing ...
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Labor Day

Date: 09 2013
Description: A crowd of men and women standing with fists raised in the air and holding signs at the Union Temple on Labor Day. A number of people in the foreground are...

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