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| Date: | 1857 |
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| Description: | An actor in an Indian headdress and jewelry for performance of "Black Hawk, or Lily of the Prairie," a drama written by Mary Elizabeth Mears and presented ... |
| Date: | 1857 |
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| Description: | An actor dressed as an army officer, holding a saber, for the performance of "Black Hawk, or Lily of the Prairie," a drama written by Mary Elizabeth Mears ... |
| Date: | 02 12 1963 |
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| Description: | Six members of the same family form the complete cast of a library playhouse production that was to be televised. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A maestro leads shriner musicians from the Zor Shrine German Band as they play their instruments on the steps of the Masonic Temple on Wisconsin Avenue. |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Pete Seeger at Highlander Folk School, possibly at a 25th anniversary celebration, where he was in charge of music. Playing an Orpheum #1 open-back five st... |
| Date: | 03 1971 |
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| Description: | Concert poster for "White Lightning" at Snoopy's in Madison, Wisconsin, March 23-24, 1971. |
| Date: | 05 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising for a Tom Jones concert, featuring Tom Jones, Pat Henry, The Blossoms, and Jeff Slurges Universe, at the Dane County Coliseum, June 6, 1... |
| Date: | 05 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising a concert by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Field House, May 27, 1971. Features a negat... |
| Date: | 11 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster advertisement for a concert by the group "The Living Sound," at 240 West Gilman Street, in Madison, Wisconsin. Features a reduced purple and red ill... |
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| Description: | Poster publicizing "Wisconsin Traveler," possibly a musical group. Features a hand-drawn and hand-colored drawing of a fiddle player, a banjo player, and s... |
| Date: | 1867 |
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| Description: | Lithograph poster for Augustin Daly's 1867 play Under the Gaslight, depicting Snorkey the one-armed Civil War veteran tied to the railroad tracks, w... |
| Date: | 03 29 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising a performance by B.B. King at Dewey's. Features a photograph of B.B. King with a guitar, presumably at a performance. The poster was des... |
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| Description: | A group of several performers, possibly singers, standing outside on a platform in front of a crowd. |
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| Description: | Folk singer Guy Carawan plays guitar and sings as James Bevel and Bernard Lafayette sing along. |
| Date: | 1971 |
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| Description: | Pete Seeger, performing for a group of Vietnam War protesters in Texas, probably near Fort Hood. |
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| Description: | A man leads a procession with a bull carrying a long cart decorated with flowers. Women process along the sides of the cart and a band marches on the road ... |
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| Description: | View of an acrobatic team on a trapeze. The act, performed on a boardwalk at Midland Beach by the Flying Cromwells, is observed by a large gathering of peo... |
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| Description: | View of Dr. Bedell (1909-1974), American composer and organist, playing a Wurlitzer organ. |
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