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International Harvester Tent at Iowa State Fair

Date: 1946
Description: International Harvester tent and exhibition at the Iowa State Fair. Includes workers filming Iowa's first television show and a high school brass band ente...
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Women Circus Drummers

Date: 1942
Description: Five women drummers with the Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey Circus posing with striped drums. They are wearing band uniforms, including large hats to...
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Lone Cowboy

Date: 01 28 1936
Description: A man dressed as a cowboy is sitting and holding a guitar in front of a microphone in W.I.B.A. studios, 111 King Street, Room 28.
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Church Choir

Date: 1898
Description: A woman plays the organ, while two women, wearing hats, and three men, gather behind her, holding song books. They are enclosed by a low, circular railing;...
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Stumpf Fiddle Players

Date: 08 18 1977
Description: Sally Perringer (in the foreground) plays the Stumpf fiddle in the Firehouse Band from Port Washington. The performance took place at the eighth annual pic...
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Band and Audience

Date: 1946
Description: An audience watching a musical group put on a show in a tent at the Kansas State Fair.
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"White Lightning" Concert Poster

Date: 03 1971
Description: Concert poster for "White Lightning" at Snoopy's in Madison, Wisconsin, March 23-24, 1971.
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Musicians Playing Instruments

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Description: A studio portrait of four men playing musical instruments in front of a painted backdrop. They are wearing suit jackets, vests, neckties, and trousers. The...
Poster

Wisconsin Traveler Poster

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Description: Poster publicizing "Wisconsin Traveler," possibly a musical group. Features a hand-drawn and hand-colored drawing of a fiddle player, a banjo player, and s...
Drawing

Blue Funkshun at the Nitty Gritty

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Description: Poster advertising a set of performances by musical group Blue Funkshun. Features a hand-drawn illustration of a man with a guitar case smoking a cigarett...
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Polka Party

Date: 1957
Description: A crowd gathers to watch men and women dance the polka at the Verona Legion Hall. A man plays a banjo in the background.
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Band Playing at Fourth of July Parade

Date: 07 04 1944
Description: Band, in full regalia, playing tubas, clarinets and trumpets as well as other instruments, outside at a Fourth of July parade. There is a brick building in...
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U.S. Coast Guard Band

Date: 1943
Description: The United States Coast Guard band plays a concert for a War Bond Drive with Rudy Vallee as its conductor. The original caption reads: "U.S.C.G. (Int'l K-6...
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Crowd and Performers

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Description: A group of several performers, possibly singers, standing outside on a platform in front of a crowd.
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Baby Huey & the Babysitters Guitarist on Stage

Date: 04 24 1970
Description: The guitarist for Baby Huey & the Babysitters, possibly Danny O'Neil, stands on stage playing a Gibson Les Paul guitar, wearing a wide brimmed hat and larg...
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Baby Huey on Stage with Horn Players

Date: 04 24 1970
Description: Chicago R&B singer Baby Huey standing barefoot on stage wearing an open green shirt on top of coveralls. Members of his horn section are visible in the bac...
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Baby Huey & the Babysitters Horn Section

Date: 04 24 1970
Description: Low angle view of three members of the Baby Huey & the Babysitters horn section, which features a modified trumpet, and a tenor and an alto saxophone. They...
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Baby Huey with Full Band

Date: 04 24 1970
Description: View from above of Chicago R&B act Baby Huey mid-performance. The band was made up of a three man horn section, electric guitar, drums, congas, electric ba...
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Grateful Dead on Stage

Date: 04 26 1970
Description: The Grateful Dead mid-performance as viewed from the audience. People are also watching from a scaffolding behind the stage.
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Phil Lesh on Stage

Date: 04 26 1970
Description: Phil Lesh, bassist for the Grateful Dead on stage wearing a t-shirt reading "Fillmore West." Mickey Hart's drum kit can be seen to the right, and Bob Weir'...

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