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| 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. Shown performing at the microphone, left to ... |
| 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: | 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. Shown at a jam session are, left to right, P... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Ceremonial performers in traditional Indian costume pose near a steamboat. |
| Date: | 07 1959 |
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| Description: | A row of girls and young women twirling batons in downtown Wisconsin Dells. |
| Date: | 10 12 1944 |
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| Description: | Elsie Taschek at the keyboard of the University of Wisconsin-Madison carillon. Traditionally the carillon was always played by men before World War II. |
| Date: | 11 22 1944 |
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| Description: | Members of the East High School play cast for "Tomorrow the World" a story of a Nazi boy in the United States, standing left to right: Robert Cnare, the Ge... |
| Date: | 12 14 1944 |
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| Description: | Eight girls (on the left side from floor to harp) Ruth Quale, Mary Fess, Patricia Kinney, Elaine Tripalin, (girl in the center) Carlene Stoker, (right side... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | A group of formally dressed people gather at Tenney Park to hear a band concert. |
| 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: | 1936 |
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| Description: | A young accordionist plays a solo for the crowd at the Wisconsin State Fair, while another young player watches. |
| 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: | 04 27 1945 |
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| Description: | Composer Sigmund Romberg at the piano during an impromtu concert at Central High School. Members of the high school band looking on are, left to right: Bev... |
| Date: | 04 27 1946 |
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| Description: | WIBA radio broadcast showing five young people; one playing the piano, one playing a violin, and three reading scripts. |
| Date: | 03 25 1947 |
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| Description: | Cast members in costume at Longfellow School play, "The Bear's Dream". |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Lionel Barrymore directs John Gilbert and Norma Shearer in a scene from "Romeo and Juliet" for MGM's Hollywood Revue. |
| 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: | 01 16 1948 |
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| Description: | Two children and one adult in a gymnastic pose at Madison's Turner Hall, 21 South Butler Street. |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | An audience watching a musical group put on a show in a tent at the Kansas State Fair. |
| Date: | 04 05 1948 |
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| Description: | Posed with their fiddles are Theodore Rygh, Jr., of Woodford, left - third place finisher, and Herman "Tex" Falkenstein, of Madison, right - second place f... |
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