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| Description: | The Johnson Brothers, billed as "Clean, Fast, Swedish Comedy," was a musical comedy act based in Racine, Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | The Serenaders, a dance band based in Kiel. The drum indicates that the band was headed by Si Mahlberg. |
| Date: | 08 27 1910 |
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| Description: | A group portrait of members and families of the United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipefitting Industry, Local 118. The g... |
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| Description: | Rube Guyett and George Mandle with banjos in the Guyett Barber Shop. |
| Date: | 03 1941 |
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| Description: | Hildegarde Loretta Sell, better known as Hildegarde, was a well known cabaret singer who was born in Adell, Wisconsin in 1906 and raised in New Holstein. D... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Large group of cranberry harvesters posing with implements. Many of the individuals are wearing boutonnières and corsages made from cranberry sprigs. Many ... |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of David G. James holding a large, over the shoulder horn, and a hat. |
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| Description: | View of the Metlakahtla Brass Band as they perform in a circular formation around the conductor. Another group of women and girls stands to the left. Spect... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Two young men dressed in suits and ties playing ukeleles on a residential street. |
| Date: | 07 1915 |
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| Description: | Group of soldiers of Co. K, 127th Infantry, 32nd Division, Wisconsin National Guard "at ease." Two men are eating, one holds a tin cup, two men hold mandol... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Family and friends gathered in front of a home for the wedding of Joseph Lorbieki and Agnes Onernek. Three musicians can be seen near the center. A windmil... |
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| Description: | Interior view of Mount Vernon, built in 1757 by George Washington. Curtis' Music Room houses a harpsichord, as well as other instruments. |
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| Description: | Interior view of an early American home. The room features an elaborate fireplace, a violin, and paintings. |
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| Description: | Interior view of a music shop with phonographs, violins, phonograph records displayed on the wall, and wax cylinders lining a shelf. |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Wisconsin Music Company of Madison, Wisconsin, with two elevated views of the Cable Company's Chicago and St. Charles piano and organ fac... |
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| Description: | Memohead of the S.A. Mondschein Piano Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, dealer in Sohmer and other brands of pianos. Features a three-quarter exterior view ... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | The ten members of the Drum Corps of the Milwaukee Turners posed in front of a painted backdrop. They are dressed in band uniforms with hats and are holdin... |
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| Description: | Billhead of Neese, Kustermann & Root of Green Bay, Wisconsin, stationers, printers, book-binders, and dealers in musical instruments and sewing machines. T... |
| Date: | 10 31 1912 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of two sisters posed with a guitar and a mandolin in front of a painted backdrop. They are wearing dresses, and one sister has a lace... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Ferrotype studio portrait of a musical trio in front of a painted backdrop. One man on the right sits holding a guitar, a man stands in the middle holding ... |
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