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| Description: | A man posing outdoors with musical horns, with notations: "E flat bass, B flat Baritone, B flat Tenor, E flat Alto, B flat Cornet, E flat 'Butterfly' Corne... |
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| Description: | A man standing outdoors and playing a E flat 'Butterfly' cornet. Next to him is a table with two bugles on it. |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | The brass band of the 2nd Wisconsin Infantry. In the past, the leader in the picture was identified as Hazard W. Titus, but it is likely that this photogr... |
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| Description: | General Blunt's Headquarter Band, members of the 3rd Wisconsin Cavalry who were massacred and burnt by the guerilla Quantrell at Baxter Springs, Kansas. |
| Date: | 1978 |
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| Description: | Native Americans keeping the music alive. George Whitewing, a Ho Chunk musician from Wittenberg, Wisconsin, plays his drum while a crowd looks on in Red Cl... |
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| Description: | The Original Cowboy Band poses on the steps of Simmons University in Abeline, Texas. Writing on drum reads: "The Original Cow Boy Band" and writing on bann... |
| Date: | 08 18 1977 |
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| Description: | Sally Perringer (in the foreground) plays the Stumpf fiddle in the Firehouse Band from Port Washington. The performance took place at the eighth annual pic... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the Wisconsin Dells High School Band in uniform, posing with their instructor. |
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| Description: | A "cart before the horse" rig advertising the "A.F. Werner, Bargains in Everything, Black River Falls, Wis.", with a man wearing a fake bushy beard and hol... |
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| Description: | Member of a local farmers' band practicing in a barnyard with a cow and pony. Another animal, unidentified, stands behind the sousaphone player. |
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| Description: | Member of a local farmers band practicing the tuba in a barnyard with cows. In the background is a barn on a hill. |
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| Description: | View across street towards a band in a wagon parading through town. People are watching from the sidewalk, and also from second story porches. |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of men driving a circus calliope for a parade in town. A calliope is a musical instrument that produces sound by sending steam throu... |
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| Description: | Elevated view towards intersection of a crowd watching a circus wagon on Main Street, probably a steam calliope. |
| Date: | 04 21 1927 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a marching band posing in front of trucks loaded with International Harvester cream separators, recently arrived by train. |
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| Description: | Group of people and a dog in front of small frame house. One of the men is holding a violin. |
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| Description: | Group of people and a dog in front of small frame house. One of the men is holding a violin. |
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| Description: | A man playing a violin is standing near a woman and three children in front of a frame house. |
| Date: | 02 11 1947 |
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| Description: | Madison Boy Scouts and their leader pay tribute to Abraham Lincoln on his birthday by placing a wreath at the foot of the statue on Bascom Hill. Dick Feldt... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | A driver sitting in the cab of an International piano delivery truck for Brown's Store. In the back of the truck are two large wooden crates, one presumabl... |
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