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| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | John Williams leading a congregation at Peniel Church in song at Gymanfa Ganu, a Welsh songfest. |
| 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: | 06 26 1963 |
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| Description: | Hope United Church of Christ members are putting on a skit of the "roaring twenties." |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | The Fourth of July "living flag" created by costumed dancers from the Kehl Dance Studio, a school founded in Madison by Frederick W. Kehl in 1898. The Capi... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | "Living flag" created by the Kehl dancers on the steps of the third Wisconsin State Capitol. This close view permits better examination of the ornamentatio... |
| 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: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Menominee Indian Band playing at the Wisconsin Centennial Year Kick-off Ceremony in the Wisconsin State Capitol. They played a one hour concert in the morn... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, with several children and adults outside of its entrance. |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Ceremonial performers in traditional Indian costume pose near a steamboat. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | A group of formally dressed people gather at Tenney Park to hear a band concert. |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Dancers in elaborate costumes and huge headdresses perform onstage in "Glorifying the American Girl," a 1929 Paramount musical. The heads of some pit music... |
| 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: | 04 1968 |
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| Description: | Dance interpretation of "Down on Me," a spiritual, as part of the Soul Roots Festival, April 26-27. Silhouettes of dancers with their arms raised. |
| Date: | 04 1968 |
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| Description: | Clown Mathis, dancing to the song "Steal Away" during a performance at the Soul Roots Festival, April 26-27. |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Pete Seeger playing the 5-string banjo at the 25th Anniversary of Highlander Folk School in the Library building. |
| Date: | 03 1971 |
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| Description: | Concert poster for "White Lightning" at Snoopy's in Madison, Wisconsin, March 23-24, 1971. |
| Date: | 06 1945 |
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| Description: | Rosa Goldberg Katz and friends perform on stage at a camp for Jewish Holocaust survivors; Holsbybrunn, Sweden. |
| Date: | 01 28 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising exhibitions at the L'atelier Gallery. On display are works by J.P. Schmelzer and Gina Larson Van Veghel. |
| Date: | 1971 |
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| Description: | Pete Seeger, performing for a group of Vietnam War protesters in Texas, probably near Fort Hood. |
| Date: | 03 1941 |
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| Description: | Hildegarde Loretta Sell, better known as Hildegarde, was a well known cabaret singer who was born in Adell, Wisconsin in 1906 and raised in New Holstein. D... |
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