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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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Two Women in a Bedroom

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Description: View across bedroom towards two women sitting together. The woman on the right is holding a guitar. On the left is a dresser with a mirror, and a bed in th...
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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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Barn Raising Dance

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Description: View across large, wooden stage towards two men who are sitting and playing string instruments. Other men, women, and children are standing and sitting on ...
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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...
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"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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Folk Singer Ed Sprague

Date: 09 09 1961
Description: Three children watch Madison folk singer Ed Sprague singing while playing guitar. The children, from left, are Billy Schwab, Luann McGilligan, and Kathleen...
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Empty Stocking Fund Television Benefit Show

Date: 10 30 1963
Description: Ronald Strahm of New Glarus will perform Western songs on the long television benefit for the Empty Stocking Fund on WISV-TV, co-sponsored by the Wisconsin...
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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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Renaissance and Baroque Music Concert at Central-University High School

Date: 11 30 1965
Description: A lute is examined by three La Follette High School musicians serving as ushers at a Civic Music Recital series concert of Renaissance and baroque music he...

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