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Annual Christmas Charity Ball

Date: 12 29 1953
Description: The annual Christmas Charity Ball held at the Loraine Hotel. This is the woodwind section with saxophones and clarinet of Eddie Lawrence's band, which play...
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Shopping at a Record Store

Date: 01 09 1954
Description: Record shop employee Charles Lunde (right) explaining the merits of Charlie Ventura's septet to customer Richard Mallum, who is admiring the cover of the v...
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Local SPEBSQSA Group Rehearsal

Date: 02 23 1954
Description: The local group of the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop Quartet Singing in America (SPEBSQSA) rehearsing before an internationa...
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Local SPEBSQSA Group Rehearsal

Date: 02 23 1954
Description: The local group of the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop Quartet Singing in America (SPEBSQSA) rehearsing before an internationa...
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Local SPEBSQSA Group Rehearsal

Date: 02 23 1954
Description: The local group for the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop Quartet Singing in America (SPEBSQSA) rehearsing for an international ...
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Local SPEBSQSA Group Rehearsal

Date: 02 23 1954
Description: The local group of the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop Quartet Singing in America (SPEBSQSA) group rehearses for an internatio...
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Ray Price Band in Studio

Date: 06 1955
Description: Four men playing musical instruments in a studio with a electric sign that says: "On the Air." U.W. student Ray Price led the band, which consisted of stan...
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Women's Club of Madison Presents "Man and His God"

Date: 04 16 1957
Description: Madison Women's Club presents an original play "Man and His God' to raise money for scholarships. Members of one of the play's choirs provides musical back...
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Granny Cowdin

Date: 11 19 1958
Description: Mary B. Cowdin is in her apartment playing her piano and joined by her son-in-law, Ralf Metz, who is playing a violin, and her grandsons Scott, 12, and All...
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Employee Christmas Party at Madison City-County Building

Date: 12 19 1958
Description: Employee Christmas Party at the City-County Building. A group of men are shown entertaining and playing musical instruments.
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Madison Barbershop Quartet Singers Make Donation to the Empty Stocking Club

Date: 12 14 1960
Description: Madison barbershop quartet singers make a $350.00 donation to the Empty Stocking Club. The amount represents one half of the proceeds from the group's "Qua...

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