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| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | International Harvester tent and exhibition at the Iowa State Fair. Includes workers filming Iowa's first television show and a high school brass band ente... |
| Date: | 06 22 1933 |
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| Description: | Twelve boys and girls, coached by J.C. Haberman, in an acrobatic/gymnastic pose at the Madison Turners Hall, 21 South Butler Street. They performed seven "... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | "The Harmonians" performing at a picnic to raise money for striking Allis-Chalmers workers. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | James Peterson, son of the photographer, playing the harmonica. He is sitting against a stump, with trees in the distance. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Workers relaxing outside International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. One group is crowded around a stage listening to a band while others are playing baseba... |
| Date: | 07 12 1970 |
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| Description: | A woman in a polka-dotted suit chats with two men wearing wildly-patterned slacks and sport coats at a summer party. A man plays drums in the background. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Five women drummers with the Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey Circus posing with striped drums. They are wearing band uniforms, including large hats to... |
| Date: | 03 10 1938 |
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| Description: | Acrobats in formation, on stage with 15 participants holding various pieces of athletic equipment. |
| Date: | 06 23 1933 |
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| Description: | Madison Turnverein acrobats/gymnasts posing in an adagio formation, tutored by J.C. Haberman, at Madison Turner Hall, located at 21 South Butler Street. |
| Date: | 01 20 1932 |
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| Description: | Mazomanie Rural Club play cast, winner of the Dane County rural drama contest, on stage at the Mt. Horeb High School. |
| Date: | 01 21 1931 |
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| Description: | Presenting the play, "They Are Not What They Used To Be." The Sunnyside P.T.A., 3902 E. Washington Avenue, won the fourth preliminary contest in the Dane C... |
| Date: | 12 10 1928 |
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| Description: | Middleton High School Girls' Glee Club during performance. |
| 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: | 07 1959 |
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| Description: | A row of girls and young women twirling batons in downtown Wisconsin Dells. |
| 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: | 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 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. |
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