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Harmonica Player

Date: 1914
Description: James Peterson, son of the photographer, playing the harmonica. He is sitting against a stump, with trees in the distance.
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School Children Folk Dancing

Date: 1919
Description: School children dancing in a circle to music from a Victrola phonograph as women look on. The children are outdoors, possibly in a rural schoolyard.
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Directing an "Action Song"

Date: 1919
Description: Miss Streeter leading school children in the "shoemaker's song". Another woman is standing near a Victrola. The children are outdoors under trees. Possibly...
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University of Wisconsin Music Hall

Date: 05 04 1930
Description: View of University of Wisconsin Music Hall at 925 Bascom Mall, 455 N. Park Street.
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Albert Wachuta

Date: 08 19 1941
Description: Albert Wachuta (b.1875?), singer of Bohemian songs with accordion.
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Unidentified Performers

Date: 07 24 1946
Description: Mr. and Mrs. James Hawkins or Henry Thunder and Stella Stacy. Probably taken at Winnebago (Ho-Chunk) Indian Village.
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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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Outdoor Portrait of Ho-Chunk Man

Date: 07 24 1946
Description: Outdoor full-length portrait of Sam Blowsnake-Carley at Winnebago (Ho-Chunk) Indian Village wearing a headdress in front of a teepee.
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Singers Posing Outdoors

Date: 08 08 1946
Description: Possibly Adelord Joseph Vanasse (b. 1877?) and Stanilaus Phaneuf (b. 1869), singers who recorded for song collector Helene Stratman-Thomas.
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Dr. Charles O. Lindberg

Date: 08 10 1946
Description: The man on the left is Dr. Charles O. Lindberg, a physician and singer of Swedish songs, who recorded for Helene Stratman-Thomas. The man on the right is A...
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Dr. Charles Lindberg and Helene Stratman-Thomas

Date: 08 10 1946
Description: Helene Stratman-Thomas and Dr. Charles O. Lindberg, a Swedish singer.
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Helene Stratman-Thomas and Two Women

Date: 08 10 1946
Description: A group portrait of three women. (l to r) Song collector Helene Stratman-Thomas, Mrs. Kamma Grumstrup, a singer of old ballads in Danish, and possibly Beri...
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Charles Dietz and Helene Stratman-Thomas

Date: 09 02 1946
Description: Charles Dietz, a singer of English ballads, and song collector Helene Stratman-Thomas.
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Family Christmas

Date: 
Description: A family sits around a Christmas tree playing music and singing.
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Fuller Opera House

Date: 1895
Description: Exterior view across Mifflin Street towards the Fuller Opera House, which later became the Parkway Theater and was razed in 1954. The City Hall is next doo...
Postcard

Opera House

Date: 1910
Description: View across road towards the front and right side of the Opera House. Caption reads: "Greetings from Prairie Farm, Wis."
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Man Outdoors with Phonograph

Date: 
Description: A man sits in a wooded area and plays music on a phonograph.
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Music Hall

Date: 1899
Description: View across Bascom Hill of the Music Hall and Library on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
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Music Hall

Date: 1930
Description: View across Bascom Hill of Music Hall and Library on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The Law building is on the right, and Chadbourne Hall is i...
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Music Hall

Date: 
Description: Elevated view across Bascom Hill of Music Hall and Library on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.

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