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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: | 1970 |
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| Description: | Gloria Peebles (left), animal trainer, Kay Bliss (right), assistant, and their Busy B's canine act performers (11 dogs and 2 monkeys) in front of Internati... |
| 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: | 1914 |
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| Description: | African-American school band assembled in a lecture hall at the Piney Woods Country Life School with Agricultural Extension Department workers and charts i... |
| Date: | 05 25 1933 |
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| Description: | Group of seven dancers posing around an oversize cake of Lifebuoy Health Soap on a stage. The orchestra pit is in the foreground. Billie Usher, Marianne He... |
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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 ... |
| Date: | 10 31 1938 |
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| Description: | Les Hartmann and his McCormick-Deering Band at the Waterloo Dairy Cattle Congress. Eight men and three women are on a stage, presumably ready to perform fo... |
| Date: | 09 09 1979 |
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| Description: | A large group of people rallying in support of gay rights at the top of State Street on the Capitol Square. They are listening to a man playing guitar. Man... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | The United States Coast Guard band plays a concert for a War Bond Drive with Rudy Vallee as its conductor. The original caption reads: "U.S.C.G. (Int'l K-6... |
| 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. |
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| Description: | A view of the Opera House. Caption reads: "Opera House, Traer, Iowa." |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Costumed students stand outdoors to act in a pageant celebrating the founding of the College of Mount Saint Vincent. The school was founded in 1847 by the ... |
| Date: | 11 02 1953 |
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| Description: | During a scene from the UW Men's Dolphin Club show "Robin Hood Comes Clean," Don Hart of Whitefish Bay holds a sign with the word "Dungeon" written in larg... |
| Date: | 02 18 1950 |
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| 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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| Description: | Brass band with eight musicians posed standing on the street in front of the Opera House. At the far right is Carl Pope. Signs advertise "John T. Hinds in ... |
| Date: | 07 1995 |
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| Description: | "Mayville's Raymond ?, also know as Peggy McEathon sings with the Pete Runde Dixieland Band." |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Four generations of men and boys pose for a portrait of Menoninee Indians in full dress standing outdoors near a gate and fence. A sign says: "Indian Vill... |
| Date: | 03 26 1957 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of writers for the Orpheus Show at Wisconsin High School. The theme for the show was "Mickey Moose Club, Anything Can Happen Night." Picture... |
| Date: | 12 12 1959 |
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| Description: | Drama Institute in Madison drew hundreds of high school thespians from all over the state. Members of the South Milwaukee High School Drama Club. Left to R... |
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