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Band Concert in Park

Date: 1912
Description: A band concert in a park. From left to right is a drummer, two trumpeters, a tuba player, pianist, oboeist, and a violinist. A boy is peeking out from behi...
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Four Men Singing from Sheet Music

Date: 1941
Description: Four men stand together to sing from sheet music. Three of the men are dressed in suits and ties, and one man is dressed as an old-fashioned constable, inc...
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Price Control Broadcast, WRJN

Date: 08 18 1946
Description: Pro price-control broadcast at WRJN. A woman and two men stand encircling a microphone holding scripts. A clock is on the wall behind them and a piano [?] ...
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Norman Ebron Band

Date: 02 18 1950
Description: Norman Ebron Band, members of American Federation of Musicians, segregated Local 587, play stand-up bass, coronet, clarinet and piano in front of a white a...
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Norman Ebron Band

Date: 02 18 1950
Description: The Norman Ebron Band, members of the American Federation of Musicians, segregated Local 587, play coronet, saxophone, piano, drums and standup bass in a d...
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A Happy Tune

Date: 01 19 1969
Description: Several people are smiling and watching a woman playing a piano. Caption reads: "A HAPPY TUNE — Mrs. Earer Turner played spirituals and jazz for a group of...
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Christmas 1939

Date: 12 1939
Description: Barbara Brumder, wearing a fur coat, poses sitting in a chair flanked by her brothers, Philip, left, and Herbert E. They are the children of Herbert P. and...
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Duke Ellington at the Piano

Date: 05 09 1952
Description: Duke Ellington at the piano during a performance with the Duke Ellington Orchestra. The bassist is likely Joe Benjamin, and the drummer is Louie Bellson. O...
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Concert at Milwaukee Art Institute

Date: 09 24 1954
Description: Three performers are on stage together: a man playing a clarinet, a woman singing, and a man playing a piano. Caption reads: "A concert trio performed
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Tommy Sheridan Jazz Demonstration

Date: 01 20 1958
Description: A man playing the piano while children around him are clapping their hands. Caption reads: "Clapping out the beat, children helped Tommy Sheridan, a...
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Elmer Hunholz Rebuilds Player Piano

Date: 06 12 1959
Description: A man is using a screwdriver on a machine part of a player piano. Caption reads: "Rebuilding old player pianos keeps Elmer K. Hunholz busy now that the foo...
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Combined Choruses

Date: 04 26 1958
Description: A man is pointing to sheet music on a stand, as a young man and two young women are looking on. Caption reads: "The veteran Arion Musical club choru...

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