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Female Band Serenading Cows

Date: 08 1930
Description: The Ingenues, an all-girl band and vaudeville act, serenading the cows in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Dairy Barn in a scientific test of whether th...
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Beechnut Gum Girls

Date: 1935
Description: Beechnut Gum girls, posed in front of an automobile, promoting the product for a national advertising campaign.
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Boy Scout Band

Date: 1920
Description: Group portrait of a Boy Scout band in front of a large brick building, possibly the old Baraboo High School. The bass drum head reads "Boy Scout Band" and ...
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Fauerbach Brewery Tavern

Date: 04 07 1933
Description: Slightly elevated view of crowd in the Fauerbach Brewery tavern at 651 Williamson Street, with men and women drinking and toasting and celebrating the end ...
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Homecoming Powwow

Date: 1908
Description: Ho-Chunk men and women sitting and standing around a large medicine drum in an area portioned off by canvas barriers in front of a lodge. Identified as the...
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African American Tenant Farmers at Barbecue

Date: 02 22 1915
Description: African American tenant farmers assembled for a barbecue. The tenants worked for Louis Frank Sessions who is in the front row, third from the left (wearing...
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Renaissance Faire

Date: 1909
Description: A group of people dressed up in medieval-style clothing.
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Dolton School Boys Band

Date: 06 1916
Description: Outdoor group portrait of the Dolton School Boys Band. Original caption reads: "Dolton School Boys Band who furnished the music throughout the day for the ...
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International Harvester Women's Choral Society

Date: 01 31 1926
Description: Group portrait of the members of International Harvester's women's choral society. The members worked in the company's general office. A woman in the front...
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Boy Scouts Drum and Bugle Corps.

Date: 04 21 1945
Description: Group portrait of the Four Lakes Council Boy Scouts Drum and Bugle Corps, with instruments.
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Lone Cowboy

Date: 06 25 1936
Description: Man dressed as a cowboy playing a guitar and singing in front of WIBA microphone.
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Olsen & Johnson Milking Cows

Date: 04 16 1932
Description: Olson & Johnson milking cows in front of the Orpheum Theatre, 216 State Street, promoting their show "Atrocities of 1932."
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Olson & Johnson at WISJ

Date: 12 14 1930
Description: Ole Olsen & Chic Johnson at WISJ radio station in front of microphone, with one of them holding a violin. John Sharnberg, manager of Orpheum Theatre is sta...
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I.O.O.F. Band

Date: 11 03 1930
Description: Group portrait of the I.O.O.F. (Independent Order of Odd Fellows) band in uniform, taken in Odd Fellows Hall.
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Capitol Theatre Orchestra

Date: 04 16 1928
Description: Capitol Theatre orchestra at Pennco Field (Royal Airport) to welcome the Ray-O-Vac Twins.
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'Howdy' Roberts Band Performs at IH Exhibit

Date: 1966
Description: The 'Howdy' Roberts Band performing inside an International Harvester exhibit at the Iowa State Fair. Band members are playing a clarinet, trumpet, accordi...
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Musicians at IH Farm Power Revue

Date: 09 1957
Description: Group of musicians performing at International Harvester's 1957-1958 Farm Power Revue exhibit at the World's Conservation Exposition and Plowing Contests, ...
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Potowatomi Playing Moccasin

Date: 1921
Description: Postcard depicting a group of Potawatomi men at Stone Lake playing the game of moccasin. This image is part of an exhibit about Native Americans prepared ...
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"McCormick Day"

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view of people, horses, and farm machines gathered on the town's main street for a "McCormick Day" celebration, with several grain binders and a b...
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Unidentified Performers

Date: 07 24 1946
Description: Mr. and Mrs. James Hawkins or Henry Thunder and Stella Stacy. Probably taken at Winnebago (Ho-Chunk) Indian Village.

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