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| 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: | 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: | 07 1959 |
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| Description: | A row of girls and young women twirling batons in downtown Wisconsin Dells. |
| 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: | 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: | 1957 |
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| Description: | A crowd gathers to watch men and women dance the polka at the Verona Legion Hall. A man plays a banjo in the background. |
| Date: | 01 15 1950 |
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| Description: | Entertainer and pianist Hildegarde, born Hildegarde Loretta Sell, is shown in fur coat with Governor Oscar Rennebohm. She is a Wisconsin native born in Ade... |
| Date: | 02 06 1950 |
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| Description: | Finalists in tryouts for leading roles in the first opera ever to be presented by the Wisconsin Players are shown here with Doris Kassel, accompanist, at a... |
| Date: | 02 22 1950 |
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| Description: | Four actors rehearse for the play "Last Flight Over." From left to right are Pat Burrell, Dave Vogel, Walt Kirchberger, and Kay Esch. |
| Date: | 03 01 1950 |
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| Description: | Members of the Junior Red Cross prepare for a variety show at Tomah Veterans Hospital. They are, from left to right: Bob Carpenter, Dick Feldt, and Lois Br... |
| Date: | 03 08 1950 |
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| Description: | Three "Irishmen" in the St. Patrick's Day mood. Left to right: Tom McManus of Central High School, Jo Gilbert of Edgewood High School, and "Rusty" Moran of... |
| 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. |
| Date: | 07 06 1950 |
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| Description: | Pictured are cast members of the Youth Summer Theater, Madison's teenage acting group, shown rehearsing for the production of "Prince Fairyfoot," a play fo... |
| Date: | 06 12 1950 |
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| Description: | Robert Blum (second from right) of Evansville plays in the All-State High School Band with other students at the University of Wisconsin high school music ... |
| Date: | 07 12 1950 |
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| Description: | Robert Blum of Evansville, front row left, attends a conducting class with other students at the University of Wisconsin high school music clinic. |
| Date: | 08 05 1950 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of participants in the ukulele concert that was part of the "open house" of the Shorewood Hills summer children's recreation program. Pictur... |
| Date: | 08 05 1950 |
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| Description: | Children participate in a puppet show as part of the "open house" of the Shorewood Hills summer children's recreational program. |
| Date: | 08 16 1950 |
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| Description: | Jim Bidgood, Lester Levine, and Charle Schaefer act in the play "Illusions," one of three one-act plays presented by the Madison Youth Summer Theater which... |
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