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Barman — Philip

Date: 1932
Description: Philip bartending at The Bath Club.
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Barry Family Posed Indoors

Date: 1900
Description: John Barry and his family seated around a piano in their home.
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Man Reading in Living Room

Date: 1912
Description: Otto G. Ansorge sits in his home on Lake Avenue and reads. Ansorge was a jeweler and band director in Winneconne.
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Professor Arthur Roberts

Date: 07 24 1956
Description: Arthur Roberts, Professor of Physics at Rochester University, demonstrates his other passion in life while seated at a piano. He is in Madison working on a...
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Norm and Marcella Beck Home

Date: 06 1966
Description: The wedding party relaxes at the Norm and Marcella Beck home.
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Family Gathering

Date: 1939
Description: Group portrait of Sherwin Gillett's extended family. Top row: Gerald Baumeister, son of Sherwin's sister, Helen; Lorin Gillett, son of Sherwin; Rufus Gille...
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Man and Violin

Date: 1901
Description: Young man standing in a turn-of-the-century parlor interior playing a violin.
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Postmaster and Family

Date: 1910
Description: A book in his hands, Postmaster Ed King sits in his wallpapered living room, staring past his wife to the window. Edna, his daughter, is seated at the pian...
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Doc DeHaven Dixieland Combo Appears with Madison Municipal Band

Date: 05 06 1961
Description: Doc DeHaven Dixieland Combo appears with the Madison Municipal Band at their annual Spring Concert at the Central High School auditorium. Appearing with Do...
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Ranger Meeting in Tomahawk

Date: 06 19 1955
Description: C.L. (Neal) Harrington is second from left at a retirement dinner for Henry Freund.
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079 - Counselors and Campers Playing Musical Instruments

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Description: Group of counselors and campers playing musical instruments indoors. Included are several string instruments, a saxophone, recorder, and a piano. Two campe...
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Dr. Otto L. Schmidt

Date: 10 06 1918
Description: Dr. Otto L. Schmidt delivers a speech from a platform in front of a stone monument on which is inscribed the text of Abraham Lincoln's Farewell Address to ...
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A.R. Chatman with His Spinet Harpsichord

Date: 12 12 1961
Description: A.R. Chatman, 1618 Sunfield Street, sitting at his spinet harpsichord.
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Musicians

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Description: A group of musicians sitting indoors with their instruments and music stands. Includes a bassist, a trumpet player, a pianist, a violinist, and a clarineti...
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Musicians

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Description: A group of musicians sitting with their instruments indoors. The five men are holding a bass, trumpet, piano, violin, and clarinet.
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Duo-Art Piano

Date: 02 04 1965
Description: Chester Kuharski adjusting a roll on his reproducing piano. The Duo-Art piano performs in three ways — as a regular piano, a player piano, and as a reprodu...
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Emmanuel Philipp with the Council of Defense

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Description: View from audience towards stage where Governor Emmanuel Philipp is standing behind a desk. Standing with him, in front of their chairs, are two men in sui...
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Family Orchestra

Date: 1938
Description: Descendants of Conrad Seipp comprise an orchestra which performed a concert as part of the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the construction of t...
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Tenny and Underwood

Date: 1905
Description: Two gentlemen, identified as E. Tenny, of Denver Colorado, left, and E.W. Underwood of Montello, Wisconsin, are posing sitting in the parlor of Underwood's...
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Margaret McGuire Visiting Summer School

Date: 1948
Description: View from audience of Margaret McGuire visiting a Summer School Farm Classroom for music teachers taught by Fred Waring.

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