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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: | 05 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising for the "Celebration of Life" music festival, held June 21 through 28, 1971, 150 miles north of New Orleans. Poster features two colorfu... |
| Date: | 06 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising for a Rock-n-Roll music festival, featuring Warner Brothers recording artist Brownsville Station, Hound Dog Moses, and Tongue. Promoted ... |
| Date: | 05 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster announcing People's Art Fest, a free concert event that took place three miles west of Whitewater. Featured Soup, Fuse, Oz, Tongue, Shortstuff Hope,... |
| Date: | 04 1972 |
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| Description: | Poster publicizing the 1972 Wisconsin Music Festival, which took place April 14-16, 1972, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Field House. Featured Rich... |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | Poster for cabaret entertainment at L'etoile Jazz Club, 25 N. Pinckney Street, featuring Lisa Davis et Bil Meredith and Lynette, on June 10, 1979. |
| 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: | 11 01 1970 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising the "Ogg Homecoming Bash" held in Ogg Residence Hall and Gordon Commons, on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. A football-shape... |
| 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... |
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| Description: | A group of several performers, possibly singers, standing outside on a platform in front of a crowd. |
| 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: | 04 25 1970 |
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| Description: | A group of bikers wearing leather jackets representing their gang affiliations sit and stand on the ground. In the background is a crowd of people near the... |
| Date: | 04 25 1970 |
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| Description: | A biker wearing a fringed leather jacket with a sleeveless denim jacket over it that reads "Windy City M.C. Chicago" stands on the side of the Sound Storm ... |
| Date: | 04 25 1970 |
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| Description: | Bassist Bob Collins (with a peace symbol on his instrument) from the band Tongue performs at the Sound Storm music festival with drummer Dick Weber visible... |
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