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| Date: | 08 13 1941 |
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| Description: | View across counter towards Bessie Gordon sitting at the organ. |
| Date: | 08 13 1941 |
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| Description: | Side view of Bessie Gordon sitting at the organ. |
| Date: | 01 29 1937 |
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| Description: | Man playing drum set in a photographic studio. |
| Date: | 09 18 1944 |
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| Description: | Truax Field soldiers produce a weekly radio show, "Truax Field Calling" for WIBA, broadcasting from the field. The band is shown from the balcony at the Se... |
| Date: | 02 26 1945 |
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| Description: | WHA studio, with two women and two men posing around a microphone. The woman to the immediate left of the microphone has been identified as Dorothy Shinsti... |
| Date: | 03 16 1945 |
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| Description: | Group of children seated on the floor at the WHA radio studio listening to a woman (Fanny Steve?) play the piano during a program called "Fun Time". |
| Date: | 12 08 1970 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising live music at the Nitty Gritty. The noted bands are Capt. Billy's Whiz Bang and Spectre Inc. The text is in the shape of a hot air ballo... |
| Date: | 12 31 1970 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising Urban Blues and the performance of Luther Allison Chicago Blues Band, at the Nitty Gritty's New Year's Eve party. The poster features a ... |
| Date: | 02 05 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising a performance by REO Speedwagon at Dewey's. Features a toy wagon at the top. |
| 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... |
| Date: | 08 13 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising Doctor Bop and the Headliners, starring Al Craven, the White Raven, at the Nitty Gritty. Features autographed portraits of the band memb... |
| Date: | 08 15 1942 |
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| Description: | A conductor leads a band made up of school-age children as well as a few adults at a Civilian Defense Rally. They are playing outdoors in front of the Post... |
| Date: | 06 26 1950 |
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| Description: | Children are entertained by marionettes at the sorority marionette show and tea party at the Edgewater Hotel. |
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| Description: | Interior of the Brau Haus, a German-American Rathskeller. A German band wearing costumes stands on the small stage at the restaurant, some holding musical... |
| 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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| Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a woman flanked by two men, all standing, wearing minstrel costumes and blackface makeup. The men are pl... |
| Date: | 08 1995 |
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| Description: | "Parade in Theresa, corner of Milwaukee & Henni St." |
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| Description: | Our side of the fence is all dovetail — where they winked and upset the story-book, that's over on your side |
| Date: | 01 23 1957 |
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| Description: | Nationally famous Dukes of Dixieland performing at the Shuffle-Inn at 967 South Park Street. Frank Assuto is playing the trumpet, Fred Assuto is playing tr... |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | "Giant post card" advertising Tommy Bartlett's Water Ski Thrill Show on Lake Delton in the Wisconsin Dells, and Dancing Waters, direct from Radio City Musi... |
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