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Township High School Musicians

Date: 05 17 1935
Description: A group of high school musicians from Township High School, Joliet, Illinois, on sleeping cots in the Field House during a National School Music contest.
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East Waterloo High School Musicians

Date: 05 17 1935
Description: A group of high school musicians, from East Waterloo (Iowa?) High School, sleeping on bleachers in the Field House during a National School Music contest.
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Two Xylophonists at Emerson School

Date: 02 27 1935
Description: Two xylophonists playing at Emerson School Gymnasium.
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Middleton High School Band

Date: 01 21 1931
Description: Students pose with their instruments for a group portrait of the Middleton High School band.
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Middleton High School Orchestra

Date: 12 10 1928
Description: Members of the Middleton High School orchestra pose for a group portrait with their instruments.
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Singing Class

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Description: Students at their desks holding songbooks and singing.
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Recital Room at the State School for the Blind

Date: 1893
Description: Music recital room at the State School for the Blind with seven rows of seating, a piano and cello. Adorning the front wall is the Latin phrase "Lux Oritur...
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Family Posed in front of Wood Frame House

Date: 1878
Description: A family sits in a yard around a table with a girl holding an opened hand fan. The wood frame house behind them has a piano on its porch.
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Nursery School for Slow Learners

Date: 11 18 1955
Description: Virginia Gibson (Mrs. Harley L.) and Jean M. Schilling (Mrs. William H.), members of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority alumnae group which sponsors the Nursery Sc...
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Prof. Edgar B. Gordon

Date: 03 29 1945
Description: Prof. Edgar B. Gordon (Emeritus) at WHA radio microphone instructing Wisconsin children in vocal music at their schools, part of the "Journeys in Music Lan...
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Wheeler Conservatory of Music

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Description: An exterior view of the Wheeler Conservatory of Music, located at 626 University Avenue. The entrance has a striped tent awning that extends out to the str...
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Leroy Klose, Director of Music, Madison Public Schools

Date: 06 25 1948
Description: Portrait of Leroy Klose, 4309 Bagley Parkway, Director of Music for the Madison Public Schools, seated at his desk.
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Clear Lake High School Band in front of School

Date: 1930
Description: The band poses for a group portrait, most likely in front of a school building; the boys are dressed in uniform and are holding their instruments. Gaylord ...
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All-State Band Concert

Date: 07 19 1949
Description: Dave Cartwright, Helen Hurd, and Mary Rose Gallagher are standing with Frederick C. Ebbs, conductor of the All-State band concert. The students have been a...
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High School Music Clinic at University of Wisconsin

Date: 07 12 1950
Description: Robert Blum, Evansville, front row left, sits with other students attending a music appreciation class at the University of Wisconsin high school music cli...
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Ukulele Concert

Date: 08 05 1950
Description: Group portrait of participants in the ukulele concert that was part of the "open house" of the Shorewood Hills summer children's recreation program. Pictur...
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Central High School Student Christmas Pageant

Date: 12 20 1951
Description: Members of the choir and chorus classes at Central High School are pictured during a nativity scene from the pageant "Choir of Bethlehem" presented at the ...
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Teacher Giving Musical Direction to Group

Date: 08 1919
Description: Group of women and man receiving musical instruction outdoors from a teacher using a phonograph. Some of the group is standing, and the rest are sitting on...
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Prize Winner Seated at Piano

Date: 1919
Description: Portrait of a young woman, the prize winner of the Cook County school-home project in music, sitting at a piano.
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Shorewood Hills Play School

Date: 06 24 1952
Description: Dick Miyagawa, recreation director and supervisor of the summer Shorewood Hills Play School, gives pointers on playing a ukelele to Lucina Meloy, left, and...

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