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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...
Painting

House Party

Date: 12 1927
Description: "This scene can be dated by the homemade calendar under the wall clock. It is December of 1927. Farmers were prospering at that time, as was the rest of th...
Photograph

Performers at UAW Christmas Party

Date: 12 13 1947
Description: Children of members of Local 75, United Automobile Workers (Seaman Body Company) performing at the union Christmas party. There are accordion players and a...
Photograph

Band Playing at Allis-Chalmers Strike Picnic

Date: 1946
Description: "The Harmonians" performing at a picnic to raise money for striking Allis-Chalmers workers.
Photograph

Madison Civic Orchestra

Date: 11 17 1932
Description: The Madison Civic Orchestra poses onstage after the Parkway concert.
Poster

Poster for "The Cow-Boy Girl"

Date: 1907
Description: Color lithograph poster advertising the musical "The Cow-boy Girl" depicting Pa trying to talk to Ma through her ear horn. Kilroy and Britton were the prod...
Photograph

Bessie Gordon at Organ

Date: 08 13 1941
Description: View across counter towards Bessie Gordon sitting at the organ.
Photograph

Bessie Gordon at Organ

Date: 08 13 1941
Description: Side view of Bessie Gordon sitting at the organ.
Photograph

Harmonica Player

Date: 1914
Description: James Peterson, son of the photographer, playing the harmonica. He is sitting against a stump, with trees in the distance.
Photograph

Welsh Songfest

Date: 1946
Description: John Williams leading a congregation at Peniel Church in song at Gymanfa Ganu, a Welsh songfest.
Photograph

Workers Relaxing Outside Milwaukee Works

Date: 1914
Description: Workers relaxing outside International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. One group is crowded around a stage listening to a band while others are playing baseba...
Photograph

Vinnie Ream Hoxie

Date: 
Description: Painting of Vinnie Ream Hoxie, Wisconsin sculptor.
Photograph

Garden Party

Date: 07 12 1970
Description: A woman in a polka-dotted suit chats with two men wearing wildly-patterned slacks and sport coats at a summer party. A man plays drums in the background.
Photograph

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...
Photograph

WIBU Radio Station Main Studio

Date: 06 21 1944
Description: View of the main studio of WIBU Radio Station, 114 North Carroll Street, (Commercial State Bank Building), including one man at the microphone and one man ...
Photograph

Edgewood High School Glee Club

Date: 12 16 1942
Description: Edgewood High School, 1000 Edgewood Avenue, Glee Club performing, on stage.
Photograph

Children Playing Musical Instruments

Date: 11 03 1937
Description: Six children playing violins, a drum and a piano at the Wisconsin School of Music.
Photograph

Drummer Playing Drum Set

Date: 01 29 1937
Description: Man playing drum set in a photographic studio.
Photograph

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.
Photograph

George Friedrich Plays the Melodian

Date: 11 09 1933
Description: George J. Friedrich, floor manager at the Burdick & Murray Co., playing a Melodian at the Bullard house, 1154 E. Mifflin Street.

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