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Man Playing Kimball Theater Organ

Date: 04 05 1927
Description: Man playing Kimball organ at the Orpheum Theater.
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Don Voegeli

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Description: Don Voegeli seated at an organ.
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Circus Group

Date: 1892
Description: A large group of circus performers and personnel, including a clown and band members, pose in front of a tent.
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Circus Show Buggy and Bandwagon

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Description: Dode Fisk, the operator of a dog and pony show and circus, drives a wire-wheeled show buggy pulled by the horse "Bobby". They are photographed next to a ...
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Politician with Menominee Indians

Date: 1959
Description: Wisconsin State Senator Alfred A. Laun (R.) of Kiel, participating in what appears to be a square dance with Menominee Indians and others. This image is pa...
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Group of Circus Musicians

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Description: Musicians with the Gollmar Brothers Circus pose in front of banners advertising the circus sideshow features near the entrance to the museum annex tent.
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'Howdy' Roberts Band Performs at IH Exhibit

Date: 1966
Description: The 'Howdy' Roberts Band performing inside an International Harvester exhibit at the Iowa State Fair. Band members are playing a clarinet, trumpet, accordi...
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John Ciezczak

Date: 08 11 1941
Description: John Ciezczak (b.1885?), a Polish watchmaker, who sang songs in Polish, Ukrainian, Russian, and Kasshubian for song collector Helene Stratman-Thomas. He is...
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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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Albert Wachuta

Date: 08 19 1941
Description: Albert Wachuta (b.1875?), singer of Bohemian songs with accordion.
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Unidentified Performers

Date: 07 24 1946
Description: Mr. and Mrs. James Hawkins or Henry Thunder and Stella Stacy. Probably taken at Winnebago (Ho-Chunk) Indian Village.
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Ho-Chunk Performers

Date: 07 24 1946
Description: Mr. and Mrs. James Hawkins or Henry Thunder and Stella Stacy. Probably at Winnebago (Ho-Chunk) Indian Village.
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Ho-Chunk Man with Drum

Date: 07 24 1946
Description: Unidentifed man with drum who was probably recorded for song collector Helene Stratman-Thomas, probably at Winnebago (HoChunk) Indian Village.
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Ho-Chunk Performers

Date: 07 24 1946
Description: Mr. and Mrs. James Hawkins or Henry Thunder and Stella Stacy. Probably at Winnebago (Ho-Chunk) Indian Village.
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Joe Yanksy, a One-Man Band

Date: 08 25 1946
Description: Joe Yansky (Bohemian), a one-man band with an accordion and drums.
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Joe Yansky, a One-Man Band

Date: 08 25 1946
Description: Joe Yanksy (Bohemian), a one-man band with accordion and drums.
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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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Emil Boulanger

Date: 08 31 1946
Description: Fiddle player Emil Boulanger played for dances since he was a boy. He played entirely by ear, and on a violin which he made himself. He was born in Dyckesv...
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Belgian-American Performers

Date: 08 31 1946
Description: Either Anton de Beck or Theuphiel Ropson, Belgian-Americans who recorded French and Walloon dialect ballads for song collector Helene Stratman-Thomas.

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