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Bob Anden Band

Date: 08 10 1953
Description: Group portrait of members of the 8 piece Bob Anden Band sitting behind their music stands.
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Madison Civic Symphony Rehearsal

Date: 10 25 1953
Description: Conductor Walter Heermann leading the civic orchestra in a rehearsal in Scanlan hall.
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Madison Civic Symphony Rehearsal

Date: 10 25 1953
Description: Loraine Emordeno provides tympani beats during the rehearsal of the civic symphony in Scanlan Hall.
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Duke Ellington Band Concert

Date: 03 04 1954
Description: Duke Ellington jazz big band performing at the University of Wisconsin Stock Pavilion. Pictured are clarinetist Jimmy Hamilton and bassist Wendell Marshall...
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40 and 8 Convention

Date: 07 15 1954
Description: C.C. Benn is shown warming up his bugle. He blew taps at the Wisconsin American Legion's 40 and 8 memorial service. Looking on are Vig Iversen and Jacob Mi...
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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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Christ Presbyterian Church Women's Society Mission Tea

Date: 07 09 1957
Description: Mary Collins (right) explains some of the intricacies of a harp to hostess Eleanore Conlin. She played a program of harp selections for the annual missiona...
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Music Rings Out from Campus

Date: 07 13 1957
Description: Teenagers walking on the sidewalk with tennis racquets as well as musical instruments as they head for Wisconsin High School to attend the University of Wi...
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U.W. Marching Band Practicing Prior to Game Day

Date: 09 27 1957
Description: Members of the U.W. marching band practicing the half-time show prior to the U.W. vs. Marquette football game. They are in formation in the center of the g...
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Madison Civic Symphony Orchestra

Date: 10 02 1957
Description: Conductor Walter Heermann leading the Madison Civic Symphony orchestra of 75 members during a rehearsal at Scanlan Hall. The group rehearsed every Tuesday ...
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Madison Civic Symphony Orchestra

Date: 10 02 1957
Description: The five principal string players of the Madison Civic Symphony orchestra at rehearsal in Scanlan Hall. Left to right are: Ernest Stanke, viola; Phila Rafo...
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Madison Civic Symphony Orchestra

Date: 10 02 1957
Description: The principal players of the woodwind section of the Madison Civic Symphony orchestra at rehearsal in Scanlan Hall. Left to right are: Donald Kirkpatrick, ...
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Madison Civic Symphony Orchestra

Date: 10 02 1957
Description: Members of the percussion section of the Madison Civic Symphony orchestra at rehearsal in Scanlan Hall. Helen Dahm (right) is playing the tympani, Marian K...
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Madison Civic Symphony Orchestra

Date: 10 02 1957
Description: The principal players of the brass section of the Madison Civic Symphony orchestra at rehearsal in Scanlan Hall. From left are: Nancy Becknell, French horn...
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Dukes of Dixieland Plays at the Shuffle-Inn

Date: 01 23 1957
Description: Nationally famous Dukes of Dixieland performing at the Shuffle-Inn at 967 South Park Street. Frank Assuto is playing the trumpet, Fred Assuto is playing tr...
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Delta Sigma Pi Fraternity Purchases Sherman Tank

Date: 04 15 1958
Description: Delta Sigma Pi fraternity purchased a used 33-ton Sherman tank from Camp McCoy for use at a spring fraternity "tank party". The fraternity's Dixieland orch...
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Delta Sigma Pi Fraternity Purchases Sherman Tank

Date: 04 15 1958
Description: Debbie Duncan, University of Wisconsin student from Batavia, IL, christens "Rosebud I", a used 33-ton Sherman tank, with a bottle of beer at Ed's Service S...
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Summer Music Clinic Try Outs

Date: 05 10 1958
Description: "Almost 4000 high school musicians came to Madison for the state solo - ensemble festival, and 20 of them went home with scholarships for the 1958 Summer M...
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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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Christmas on the Bayles Farm

Date: 12 16 1958
Description: Duane, Ann Denise, and Bruce Kirking gaze at the "family candles" on top of the melodeon which has been in Grandmother Bayles' family for six generations. ...

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