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Baby Rose Marie Singing

Date: 1928
Description: Baby Rose Marie is shown singing at an NBC radio microphone. This is seen in the National Union Radio Corporation publicity booklet "Radio Stars of Today."
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Girl Singer

Date: 08 03 1937
Description: Full-length portrait of girl singer in floor length polka dot dress standing in front of a microphone. Taken for Anson Weeks orchestra.
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Sims and Bailey at WIBA

Date: 03 23 1932
Description: Lee Sims, piano player, and Ilo Mae Bailey, singer, at WIBA radio, NBC studios.
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Female Singers at WISJ

Date: 12 30 1930
Description: Bessie and Bata Kappelle singing at WISJ radio station in front of microphone with Ole Olsen & Chic Johnson. The woman on the left is holding a ukulele. Th...
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Emery DeNoyer

Date: 07 26 1941
Description: Emery DeNoyer (b.1887), singer of lumberjack songs. "He earned his keep in the Wisconsin lumber camps not by logging (for he only had only one eye and one ...
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Mrs. Ollie Jacobs

Date: 07 26 1941
Description: Mrs. Ollie Jacobs (b. 1862), sitting in wheelchair.
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Mrs. Ollie Jacobs

Date: 07 26 1941
Description: Mrs. Ollie Jacobs (b. 1862), sitting in a wheelchair.
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Charlie Spencer

Date: 07 28 1941
Description: Charlie Spencer (b.1873?), a Kentuckian who migrated to Crandon, recorded white spirituals for song collector Helene Stratman-Thomas. He is sitting in a ch...
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John Ciezczak

Date: 08 11 1941
Description: John Ciezczak (b.1885?), a Polish watchmaker, who sang songs in Polish, Ukrainian, Russian, and Kasshubian for song collector Helene Stratman-Thomas. He is...
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Ho-Chunk Performers

Date: 07 24 1946
Description: Mr. and Mrs. James Hawkins or Henry Thunder and Stella Stacy. Probably at Winnebago (Ho-Chunk) Indian Village.
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Singer and Interviewer

Date: 
Description: Possibly Michael Leary or Daniel O'Connell.
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Charles Robinson and Man

Date: 08 1941
Description: Charles Robinson, singer of lumberjack songs, left, with an unidentified man sitting behind what appears to be a microphone on a stand.
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"Transtar Rose" on Truck Stop Tour

Date: 08 1975
Description: Bonnie Nelson (a.k.a. "Transtar Rose") singing country music with a band on her truck stop tour. The tour ran in the summer of 1975 from Omaha to Des Moine...
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International 1210 Wagonmaster Pickup Introduction

Date: 1973
Description: Musical performers, including a band and a female singer, introducing the new International 1210 Wagonmaster pickup truck. The truck was a special edition ...
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Five Men Singing

Date: 
Description: Five African American men wearing suits and singing into a microphone. There is a small farmers union sign on the back wall.
Poster

"The Living Sound" Concert Poster

Date: 11 1971
Description: Poster advertisement for a concert by the group "The Living Sound," at 240 West Gilman Street, in Madison, Wisconsin. Features a reduced purple and red ill...
Poster

Wild Child Butler and His Band

Date: 10 1972
Description: Poster advertising for a concert by Wild Child Butler and His Band, which took place October 20, 1972, at Gordon Commons on the University of Wisconsin-Mad...
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Polka Party

Date: 1957
Description: A crowd gathers to watch men and women dance the polka at the Verona Legion Hall. A man plays a banjo in the background.
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Baby Huey on Stage with Drummer

Date: 04 24 1970
Description: Chicago R&B singer Baby Huey standing barefoot on stage wearing an open green shirt on top of coveralls. A conga player, possibly Plato Jones, is visible o...
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Baby Huey on Stage with Drums

Date: 04 24 1970
Description: Chicago R&B singer Baby Huey standing barefoot on stage wearing an open green shirt on top of coveralls. A drum set and cymbals are visible on the right si...

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