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Female Band Serenading Cows

Date: 08 1930
Description: The Ingenues, an all-girl band and vaudeville act, serenading the cows in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Dairy Barn in a scientific test of whether th...
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Beechnut Gum Girls

Date: 1935
Description: Beechnut Gum girls, posed in front of an automobile, promoting the product for a national advertising campaign.
Photograph

Ho-Chunk Powwow Participants

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Description: This photograph of Ho-Chunk powwow participants is a copy made by Van Schaick. From left to right are: John Hazen Hill (HaNaKah), William Hall (HunkKah), W...
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Emerson School

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Description: A group of young students seated in their classroom holding books as the teacher stands at the back of the room. The title of the book is "The Progressive ...
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African American Tenant Farmers at Barbecue

Date: 02 22 1915
Description: African American tenant farmers assembled for a barbecue. The tenants worked for Louis Frank Sessions who is in the front row, third from the left (wearing...
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Renaissance Faire

Date: 1909
Description: A group of people dressed up in medieval-style clothing.
Book or Pamphlet

Empire Mower, Reaper and Twine Binder Catalog

Date: 1884
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for J.F. Seiberling, manufacturer of agricultural equipment, featuring an engraving of boys marching under a benner of "Vic...
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Schneider Family with Musical Instruments

Date: 03 24 1944
Description: Melvin and Naomi Schneider and their five children with musical instruments. Photograph was taken for the Wisconsin School of Music.
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Fashion Model in Front of Carillon Tower

Date: 08 13 1940
Description: Manchester's Department Store model modeling a dress, hat, and purse in front of the Carillon Tower on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
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Madison Civic Orchestra

Date: 12 1937
Description: Elevated view of the Madison Civic Orchestra on stage in the Masonic Temple in concert dress with instruments.
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Madison Concert Orchestra

Date: 08 29 1937
Description: Madison Concert Orchestra members with their instruments seated on a "stage" under trees at Vilas Park. The conductor is standing in front. Groups of U.S. ...
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Female Singers at WISJ

Date: 12 30 1930
Description: Bessie and Bata Kappelle singing at WISJ radio station in front of microphone with Ole Olsen & Chic Johnson. The woman on the left is holding a ukulele. Th...
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Central High School Orchestra

Date: 03 21 1929
Description: Elevated view of the Central High School orchestra on the stage. Richard C. Church, conductor.
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Holy Redeemer School Orchestra

Date: 06 06 1927
Description: Group portrait of the Holy Redeemer school orchestra, 128 W. Johnson Street. On the wall in the background is a large mural surrounding a painting.
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Bessie Gordon at Reed Organ

Date: 08 13 1941
Description: Bessie Gordon (b. 1901) at the cut-down reed organ under the tavern counter.
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Iva Rindlisbacher, Helene Stratman-Thomas, and Lois Rindlisbacher at Swiss Bells

Date: 08 15 1941
Description: Iva Rindlisbacher (left), Helene Stratman-Thomas, and Lois Rindlisbacher at the Swiss bells. The bells stand was built by Otto Rindlisbacher, Iva's husband...
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Outdoor Group Portrait of the Yuba Band

Date: 08 25 1946
Description: Helene Stratman-Thomas and members of the Yuba band, many of whom had played together for forty years: Otto and Wincil Stanek, clarinet; George McGilvery a...
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Darlene Quinn

Date: 1936
Description: Darlene Quinn, a student at the Kehl School, poses with an accordion.
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Family around Table in front of House

Date: 1874
Description: A family is gathered around a table with dishes on top. To the right is a man sitting and holding a violin, and to his right a boy is holding a gun. The ho...
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Halver and Gunil Skavlem Posed in Yard

Date: 1875
Description: Two men, one of whom is Halver Skavlem, and a woman, Gunil Skavlem, are posed in a yard. One man reads the "Western Rural", a newspaper dated August 14, 18...

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