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| Date: | 01 23 1957 |
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| Description: | Nationally famous Dukes of Dixieland performing at the Shuffle-Inn at 967 South Park Street. Frank Assuto is playing the trumpet, Fred Assuto is playing tr... |
| Date: | 04 15 1958 |
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| Description: | Delta Sigma Pi fraternity purchased a used 33-ton Sherman tank from Camp McCoy for use at a spring fraternity "tank party". The fraternity's Dixieland orch... |
| Date: | 04 15 1958 |
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| Description: | Debbie Duncan, University of Wisconsin student from Batavia, IL, christens "Rosebud I", a used 33-ton Sherman tank, with a bottle of beer at Ed's Service S... |
| Date: | 05 10 1958 |
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| Description: | "Almost 4000 high school musicians came to Madison for the state solo - ensemble festival, and 20 of them went home with scholarships for the 1958 Summer M... |
| Date: | 11 19 1958 |
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| Description: | Mary B. Cowdin is in her apartment playing her piano and joined by her son-in-law, Ralf Metz, who is playing a violin, and her grandsons Scott, 12, and All... |
| Date: | 12 19 1958 |
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| Description: | Employee Christmas Party at the City-County Building. A group of men are shown entertaining and playing musical instruments. |
| Date: | 12 16 1958 |
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| Description: | Duane, Ann Denise, and Bruce Kirking gaze at the "family candles" on top of the melodeon which has been in Grandmother Bayles' family for six generations. ... |
| Date: | 03 20 1959 |
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| Description: | Neil Duresky, a member of the LaCrosse Logan High School band, plays in support of the school basketball team at the state basketball tournament held at th... |
| Date: | 02 26 1957 |
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| Description: | Three musicians are on a stage; an audience is in the background. One man in the foreground is playing the drums, another man is playing a tenor saxophone,... |
| Date: | 06 07 1959 |
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| Description: | Dr. Russell Moberly, Milton, UW Class of 1931, now practices medicine in Milwaukee. Dr. Moberly rehearses with the University Band that will perform at the... |
| Date: | 05 09 1952 |
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| Description: | Duke Ellington at the piano during a performance with the Duke Ellington Orchestra. The bassist is likely Joe Benjamin, and the drummer is Louie Bellson. O... |
| Date: | 09 12 1957 |
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| Description: | A man is using two mallets on a drum while looking over at a music stand. Caption reads: "A timpani player rehearsed with the Jewish Community Cente... |
| Date: | 11 06 1957 |
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| Description: | A man is playing a small double keyboard, from which tubes are extending. Behind him are large windows looking out towards a street scene. Across the stree... |
| Date: | 09 24 1954 |
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| Description: | Three performers are on stage together: a man playing a clarinet, a woman singing, and a man playing a piano. Caption reads: "A concert trio performed |
| Date: | 02 25 1956 |
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| Description: | Three people clapping and smiling near a man playing a guitar. Caption reads: "Railroad fans clapped to the rocking rhythm of a guitar player on a s... |
| Date: | 02 10 1957 |
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| Description: | A man playing a two-necked contraguitar while another man is playing a zither. Caption reads: "A bass guitar and zither were played by Hans Glieber ... |
| Date: | 08 05 1956 |
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| Description: | Two women playing harps. Caption reads: "Auditions for the new Milwaukee Pops orchestra were held Saturday at Radio City. Miss Carol Dahm (front), 2... |
| Date: | 01 20 1958 |
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| Description: | A man playing the piano while children around him are clapping their hands. Caption reads: "Clapping out the beat, children helped Tommy Sheridan, a... |
| Date: | 01 29 1956 |
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| Description: | A man is carrying a tray with two candlesticks and haggis. Three other men are following wearing uniforms, and two men are playing bagpipes. Caption reads:... |
| Date: | 02 21 1957 |
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| Description: | A uniformed policeman is blowing a whistle and holding two revolvers, next to a man playing a bass drum. Caption reads: "Some of the sound effects f... |
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