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Emery DeNoyer

Date: 07 26 1941
Description: Emery DeNoyer (b.1887), singer of lumberjack songs. "He earned his keep in the Wisconsin lumber camps not by logging (for he only had only one eye and one ...
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John Ciezczak

Date: 08 11 1941
Description: John Ciezczak (b.1885?), a Polish watchmaker, who sang songs in Polish, Ukrainian, Russian, and Kasshubian for song collector Helene Stratman-Thomas. He is...
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Joe Yanksy, a One-Man Band

Date: 08 25 1946
Description: Joe Yansky (Bohemian), a one-man band with an accordion and drums.
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Joe Yansky, a One-Man Band

Date: 08 25 1946
Description: Joe Yanksy (Bohemian), a one-man band with accordion and drums.
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Emil Boulanger

Date: 08 31 1946
Description: Fiddle player Emil Boulanger played for dances since he was a boy. He played entirely by ear, and on a violin which he made himself. He was born in Dyckesv...
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Belgian-American Performers

Date: 08 31 1946
Description: Either Anton de Beck or Theuphiel Ropson, Belgian-Americans who recorded French and Walloon dialect ballads for song collector Helene Stratman-Thomas.
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Belgian-American Singer

Date: 08 31 1946
Description: Either Anton de Beck or Theuphiel Ropson, Belgian-Americans who recorded French and Walloon dialect ballads for song collector Helene Stratman-Thomas.
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Unidentified Singer

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Description: Portrait of man smoking a pipe. Probably Robert A. Steinbach (b.1887?), a singer of German folk songs, who recorded for song collector Helene Stratman-Thom...
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Asher Treat

Date: 1940
Description: Asher Treat, collector of Appalachian folk songs, which were transplanted to northern Wisconsin (Crandon vicinity) by the "Kaintucks" (people from Kentucky...
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Violin Maker in Dyckesville

Date: 1946
Description: Possibly Louis J. Ropson, a farmer and violin maker from Luxemburg who lived in Dyckesville.
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Otto Rindlisbacher with Hardanger Fiddle

Date: 08 15 1941
Description: Otto Rindlisbacher, folk singer and maker of stringed instruments, and violin collection, sitting in his shop holding a Hardanger fiddle. Caption at bottom...

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