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Homecoming Powwow

Date: 1908
Description: Ho-Chunk men and women sitting and standing around a large medicine drum in an area portioned off by canvas barriers in front of a lodge. Identified as the...
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Dancers Forming a Circle

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Description: Dancers form a circle while two seated men play a guitar and a mandolin.
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Studio Portrait of Four Musicians

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Description: A studio portrait of four well-dressed men carrying instrument cases in front of a painted backdrop. They are all wearing long coats, top hats, and gloves.
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Men Posing with Musical Instruments

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Description: Group portrait of nine men standing and two men sitting in a field with trees in the background. Each standing man is holding a musical instrument, includi...
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Memorial Day Celebration

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Description: A panoramic view of a Memorial Day parade/celebration as it rounds the corner of a street. According to text on the back of the print, this celebration too...
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Logging Camp

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Description: Men posed sitting and standing in a logging camp in front of a steam locomotive. A man in the middle foreground is posed sitting and playing a concertina. ...
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Logging Camp

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Description: Group portrait of men posed standing, sitting and holding tools in a snow-covered logging camp in front of several teams of oxen and horses. One man holds ...
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Band in front of Opera House

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Description: Brass band with eight musicians posed standing on the street in front of the Opera House. At the far right is Carl Pope. Signs advertise "John T. Hinds in ...
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Fortier and Hoften Hagen

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Description: Two men posed sitting next to a piano and drum/percussion set, probably Fortier at the piano and Hoften Hagen sitting at the drums and holding a violin.
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Men Playing Instruments

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Description: View across stage towards two men posing sitting, one playing a guitar and the other a mandolin, with two other men standing nearby. In the background are ...
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Marching Band in Transit

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Description: View from wood sidewalk of brass band members wearing top hats and great coats walking up unpaved street in the central business district.
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Brass Band on Main Street

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Description: View across unpaved Main Street towards an African-American brass band standing and playing in front of the storefront for A.F. Werner. Pedestrians watch f...
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Marching Band on Main Street

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Description: View across street towards a marching band coming up a snow-covered street. People are watching from the wooden sidewalks, and young boys are walking along...

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