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| Date: | 05 17 1870 |
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| Description: | A large group, mainly men, are gathered behind the "Lake City Cornet Band" who are in uniform near a lake shore, possibly Lake Monona. The card was marked ... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Eleven uniformed musicians holding their instruments stand in a semi-circle, with the two drummers seated with their drums. The band consists of 2 trombone... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Eight people posing in front of a one-story clapboard house holding possessions. The man on the far left is holding a gun and wears a ammunition belt aroun... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Group of people posing around an organ. A young woman in a white dress is sitting at the organ, facing left, with an older man behind her on the right. On ... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Interior view including traveling library station and organ. |
| 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... |
| Date: | 09 1890 |
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| Description: | A drawing of a war dance including Kiowas, Osages, and Pawnees drawn by a Comanche boy, at Kiowa, Comanche, and Wichita Agency, Oklahoma. |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | Professor Joseph Jastrow reading, and Rachel Jastrow playing guitar in a room on the top floor of Ladies' Hall (later Chadbourne Hall, razed 1957), in Madi... |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | A room at Rockford College with a table and chair, and several stringed instruments. |
| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | Black & white lithograph by Milwaukee lithographer Louis Kurz depicting the Madison Turners or Turnverein at a shooting party on the Madison lakefront. Th... |
| Date: | 1847 |
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| Description: | An unhappy looking bride is seated in a chair looking out the window as another woman sits on the floor holding her hand. A third woman looks on angrily. |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Wood engraving of pioneer men, one of whom is playing a violin, surrounded by covered wagons. |
| Date: | 07 1886 |
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| Description: | Intersection of 4th and Steele Streets facing east. The building in the lower right is the Knipfer building, now Algoma Mercantile. Bunting adorns the Boed... |
| Date: | 1855 |
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| Description: | An illustration of an Indian prophet standing by his lodge, which has symbols drawn on and floating above it. Others are seated, watching him. Two persons ... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | An interior view of the Ada Meinhardt residence. There is an elaborate stairway with several musical instruments displayed below. |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | The parlor in the home of Dr. Edward Bass showing a parlor organ near a window, and other furnishings. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | A cyanotype view of Cairo Street on the midway of the World's Columbian Exposition. An Egyptian with a large drum rides a camel as men and boys watch. The ... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Valentine card with a girl framed with a metallic gold harp decorated with ribbons, hearts and flowers. She is wearing a white dress and has flowers in her... |
| Date: | 1894 |
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| Description: | Two University of Wisconsin-Madison students, Mr. Rider and Mr. Broughton, sit in their residence at 625 Langdon Street and play musical instruments. Mr. R... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Five men are sitting on the ground in the grass playing various horned musical instruments. The corresponding caption reads: "Picnic at Winnequah." They ar... |
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