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| 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... |
| Date: | 04 05 1948 |
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| Description: | Martin Christiansen of Edgerton, the oldest fiddler at the Old-Time Fiddlers contest at the Madison Community Center. He is 77 and has been playing almost ... |
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| Description: | Three boys, one playing a guitar, one playing a mandolin, and one singing a song from "Favorite Radio Gems," songbook, as part of a Farmers Union Meeting a... |
| 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... |
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| Description: | Zilphia Horton leading singing at CIO School during Holiday season. At the table on the right, Myles Horton, Mike Ross, Tom Ludwig, and Joyce Mitchell. |
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| Description: | Zilphia Horton playing an accordion and singing on a picket line. A group of men and women sit in chairs in front of a tent. Sign on left reads, "Peaceful ... |
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| Description: | Four women holding up cardboard ovals and pointing, as part of a theatrical performance at Highlander Folk School. |
| Date: | 05 13 1948 |
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| Description: | Youth Journal features a play which students of Wisconsin High School will present in the Wisconsin Union Theater. Pictured are Dorothy Kobs, Paul T... |
| Date: | 05 23 1948 |
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| Description: | Dr. Sigfrid Prager conducting the Madison Civic Symphony Orchestra, the Madison Civic Chorus, the University of Wisconsin chorus and soloists in his farewe... |
| 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: | 02 1971 |
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| Description: | Screen printed poster announcing a performance by Miles Davis Quintet and Keith Jarrett, occurring Thursday, March 18, 1971, at the Union Theater in the Un... |
| Date: | 03 1971 |
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| Description: | Concert poster for "White Lightning" at Snoopy's in Madison, Wisconsin, March 23-24, 1971. |
| Date: | 03 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster for a "Grateful Dead" concert held on March 14, 1971 (3/14/71), at the Camp Randall Field House, Madison, Wisconsin. Features Jerry Garcia with a ma... |
| Date: | 03 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster announcing a benefit performance for the 1971 Ann Arbor Blues Festival. Featuring Jimmy "Fast Fingers" Dawkins, John Hammond, the Sam Lay Blues Revi... |
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