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Junior Red Cross Variety Show

Date: 02 23 1949
Description: Junior Red Cross Variety Show at Washington School. Ruth Bowes, acrobat; Delores Spaanem, accordionist; Stefan Anderson, Master of Ceremonies. The students...
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Boy and Girl Playing Instruments

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Description: A young boy and girl posing standing for a studio portrait, playing musical instruments in front of a painted backdrop. The boy is wearing a matching suit ...
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World Series and "The Star-Spangled Banner"

Date: 10 01 1958
Description: Elevated view of the Milwaukee Braves and the New York Yankees standing on the first and third baselines for the national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner...
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Gold Star Parents at Memorial Concert

Date: 03 20 1949
Description: The University of Wisconsin honored the dead of four wars with a concert presented by the University Symphony orchestra and chorus that was attended by som...
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Composer Prof. Oskar Hagen and Conductor Dr. Bjornar Bergethon

Date: 04 12 1949
Description: Composer Prof. Oskar Hagen and conductor Dr. Bjornar Bergethon confer on Hagen's chorus composition "Carducciana" written for the Philharmonic Chorus of Ma...
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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Les Hartmann and his McCormick-Deering Band

Date: 10 31 1938
Description: Les Hartmann and his McCormick-Deering Band at the Waterloo Dairy Cattle Congress. Eight men and three women are on a stage, presumably ready to perform fo...
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Gay Marchers Rally at Capitol

Date: 09 09 1979
Description: A large group of people rallying in support of gay rights at the top of State Street on the Capitol Square. They are listening to a man playing guitar. Man...
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Men and Women Gathering in Living Room in Cuba

Date: 1949
Description: Three men and two women gather in a living room to listen to one of the men playing a guitar. The room is in the worker housing at an International Harvest...
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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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National Business Women's Week

Date: 10 04 1949
Description: The Madison Business and Professional Women's club celebrates National Business Women's Week by honoring some of its members. Pictured is Ms. Maria Syllm, ...
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Parade on Main Street

Date: 1899
Description: View of a marching band parading beneath a decorated arch on Main Street. Onlookers line both sides of the street. American flags are flying over the road ...
Poster

"Giuseppi Antonio Ricardo Di Piazza" Recital Poster

Date: 01 1970
Description: Poster for a graduate piano recital of "Giuseppi Antonio Ricardo Piazza," at the Music Hall Auditorium on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, 4:00 ...
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Shorewood Hills League Cabaret Party

Date: 10 21 1949
Description: Mrs. Lloyd W. (Mildred) Coleman, at left, and Mrs. J. Gibson (Marion) Winans, at right, playing a piano duet as part of the program for the Shorewood Hills...
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Ida Vanderhoef at Memorial Organ

Date: 11 03 1949
Description: Mrs. James J. (Ida) Vanderhoef sits at the newly dedicated Joyce and Victor Glenn Memorial Organ at Bashford Methodist church located at the corner of Nort...
Poster

Anti-U.S. Military Ball

Date: 01 21 1971
Description: Poster advertising an Anti-U.S. Military Ball, held at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Memorial Union. Features a woman with a gun slung over her sho...
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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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Boy Scouts in Fourth of July Parade

Date: 07 04 1944
Description: A group of Boy Scouts, led by the Scout Leader, playing drums in a Fourth of July parade. They are walking down a street and a crowd of spectators is in th...
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Madison Symphony Youth Concert

Date: 11 19 1949
Description: Stan Stitgen, Norma Malmanger and Don Liebenberg, standing left to right, and Beth Mitchell, sitting, prepare for the special youth concert to be given by ...

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