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| Date: | 04 16 1928 |
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| Description: | Capitol Theatre orchestra at Pennco Field (Royal Airport) to welcome the Ray-O-Vac Twins. |
| Date: | 05 01 1928 |
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| Description: | East High School cast on stage in a scene from "Seventeen." |
| Date: | 04 05 1927 |
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| Description: | Man playing Kimball organ at the Orpheum Theatre. |
| 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: | 08 11 1941 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 08 25 1946 |
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| Description: | Joe Yansky (Bohemian), a one-man band with an accordion and drums. |
| Date: | 08 25 1946 |
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| Description: | Joe Yanksy (Bohemian), a one-man band with accordion and drums. |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Bonnie Nelson (a.k.a. "Transtar Rose") singing country music with a band on a stage as part of her truck stop tour. The tour was sponsored by International... |
| Date: | 08 1975 |
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| Description: | Bonnie Nelson (a.k.a. "Transtar Rose") singing country music with a band on her truck stop tour. The tour ran in the summer of 1975 from Omaha to Des Moine... |
| Date: | 11 08 1953 |
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| Description: | Seven Catholic War Veterans talent show winners (?), including two female baton twirlers, boy and girl with accordion in cowboy dress and boy and girl danc... |
| Date: | 12 12 1952 |
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| Description: | St. Bernard's Catholic School Christmas pageant, showing choir, angels, Mary, Joseph and Infant, with audience in foreground. |
| Date: | 11 08 1953 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the Catholic War Veterans talent contest contestants in costume. |
| 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: | 02 07 1955 |
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| Description: | Margaret Strahl, senior at the University of Wisconsin School of Music, sitting at a grand piano at a benefit musicale sponsored by the Sigma Alpha Iota al... |
| Date: | 08 18 1977 |
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| Description: | Sally Perringer (in the foreground) plays the Stumpf fiddle in the Firehouse Band from Port Washington. The performance took place at the eighth annual pic... |
| Date: | 03 22 1944 |
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| Description: | Snazzy Chazzy and his Grenadiers, eigth grade students at Nakoma School, who play some real Milwaukee-style German tempo. Left to right, front row: Bruce ... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, with two individuals on stage, and a scene set. |
| 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. |
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