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International Harvester Tent at Iowa State Fair

Date: 1946
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...
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International Scout outside WVLR Radio Station

Date: 1965
Description: Station manager Ron Nicols and an International Scout truck with plow outside Wisconsin's Very Live Radio station headquarters. WVLR shared quarters with C...
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Workers Relaxing Outside Milwaukee Works

Date: 1914
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...
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Inter-County Fair Attraction

Date: 
Description: A crowd is standing in front of a tent advertised as the "Temple of Music."
Map or Atlas

University of Wisconsin Historical Decorative Map

Date: 1949
Description: Color bird's-eye map of the University of Wisconsin-Madison as it was midcentury, with two co-eds, several photographs of campus landmarks around edges, an...
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Recital Room at the State School for the Blind

Date: 1893
Description: Music recital room at the State School for the Blind with seven rows of seating, a piano and cello. Adorning the front wall is the Latin phrase "Lux Oritur...
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Hill's Department Store Record Display Window

Date: 09 29 1957
Description: Hill's Department Store, 202 State Street, display window featuring a sale on 12" 33 1/3 RPM long play records.
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Zilphia Horton Singing on Picket Line

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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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Wheeler Conservatory of Music

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Description: An exterior view of the Wheeler Conservatory of Music, located at 626 University Avenue. The entrance has a striped tent awning that extends out to the str...
Poster

Cabaret Entertainment

Date: 1979
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.
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Les Hartmann and his McCormick-Deering Band

Date: 10 31 1938
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...
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Gay Marchers Rally at Capitol

Date: 09 09 1979
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...
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Parade on Main Street

Date: 1899
Description: View of a marching band parading beneath a decorated arch on Main Street. Onlookers line both sides of the street. American flags are flying over the road ...
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U.S. Coast Guard Band

Date: 1943
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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Crowd and Performers

Date: 
Description: A group of several performers, possibly singers, standing outside on a platform in front of a crowd.
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Group of Bikers near Stage

Date: 04 25 1970
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...
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Biker on Stage at Night

Date: 04 25 1970
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 ...
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Bassist and Drummer in the Band Tongue

Date: 04 25 1970
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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Madison Philharmonic Chorus Reception for Patrons and Open Rehearsal

Date: 02 12 1952
Description: The Madison Philharmonic Chorus under the direction of Robert Petzold holds a reception and rehearsal for its patrons at the YMCA to acquaint the patrons w...
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Prize Winner Seated at Piano

Date: 1919
Description: Portrait of a young woman, the prize winner of the Cook County school-home project in music, sitting at a piano.

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