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| Date: | 01 19 1969 |
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| Description: | Several people are smiling and watching a woman playing a piano. Caption reads: "A HAPPY TUNE — Mrs. Earer Turner played spirituals and jazz for a group of... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | A group of women wearing green Polynesian dance costumes are dancing on a stage at the Holiday Folk Festival. A group of musicians are playing drums on the... |
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| Description: | Four women are sitting outdoors in the grass around a man who is playing guitar. The women are wearing full-body brown leotards, with a tie-dye sleeveless ... |
| Date: | 11 14 1964 |
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| Description: | A boy is looking at a person in the foreground, who is out of focus. Another object — possibly a microphone stand — is also in the foreground and out of fo... |
| Date: | 04 23 1960 |
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| Description: | Uniformed members of the University of Wisconsin band line up to enter the Wisconsin Historical Society Historymobile. The Historymobile was at the Memoria... |
| 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: | 11 24 1951 |
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| Description: | Duke Ellington is knotting his necktie in a mirror prior to a performance at the Milwaukee Arena. |
| 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: | 1986 |
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| Description: | Brochure advertising the 1986 Wisconsin State Fair with cartoon images of a cow, a wheel of cheese, Ferris Wheel, musicians, and children with pie and crea... |
| 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: | 02 24 1962 |
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| Description: | View of a young man, surrounded by drums in the foreground. Caption reads: "A Whitefish Bay youth, Robert Bealmear, of 5324 N. Kent av., beat the dr... |
| 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: | 05 06 1962 |
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| Description: | Six men playing zithers. Caption reads: "Members of the Alpenklaenge Zither club are a picture of concentration as they rehearse for their 20th spring conc... |
| 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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