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Three Children and Piano in Trailer

Date: 07 08 1936
Description: Interior view of Forbes Meagher trailer, with older child playing piano and two younger children watching.
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Chaminade Girls Music Club

Date: 06 20 1935
Description: Group portrait of the cast members of the Chaminade Girls Music Club that presented a musical playlet, "The Vanquished Tempter," for the benefit of The Cap...
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Wilbur Emery Wins Hero Medal

Date: 11 22 1932
Description: Wilbur Emery, 11, wins hero medal for saving Evelyn Schulz, 9, from drowning at second ward beach on Lake Mendota. Emery would later serve as Chief of the ...
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Marian Dolan 4-H Champion

Date: 11 18 1931
Description: Marian Dolan, of the Maple Knoll 4-H club north of Sun Prairie, 1931 National 4-H champion, sitting at the piano.
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Miss Elsie Onsrud, National 4-H Champion

Date: 10 15 1930
Description: Elsie Onsrud, from Stoughton, national 4-H champion sitting at a piano. She was chosen as 1930 typical 4-H girl, at the National Dairy Show in St. Louis.
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Holy Redeemer School Orchestra

Date: 06 06 1927
Description: Group portrait of the Holy Redeemer school orchestra, 128 W. Johnson Street. On the wall in the background is a large mural surrounding a painting.
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Sigmund Romberg and Students

Date: 04 27 1945
Description: Composer Sigmund Romberg at the piano during an impromtu concert at Central High School. Members of the high school band looking on are, left to right: Bev...
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Frank Hanson and Beverly Sime

Date: 02 02 1949
Description: East High School students Beverly Sime, playing the piano, and Frank Hanson, rehearsing for the "Pirates of Penzance" operetta.
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The Madisonians Singing Group

Date: 01 09 1950
Description: 27 teen singers stand behind a piano at the Madison YWCA. The group was formed by Don Voss (extreme right) with the cooperation of the East Side Youth Acti...
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Syl Playing Piano

Date: 11 12 1902
Description: Syl, sitting on a wooden adjustable stool reads from sheet music and plays the piano.
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Madison Civic Symphony Young People's Concert

Date: 11 14 1951
Description: Joan Taliaferro sitting at a piano with Madison Civic Symphony orchestra conductor Walter Heermann. She is to play with the orchestra at their young people...
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Christmas Pageant Scene

Date: 12 30 1951
Description: Portrait of a Christmas manger scene with children of Blessed Martin House, an interracial center operated by the Blessed Martin Guild at 746 West Washingt...
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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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Froker Twins

Date: 04 28 1953
Description: Portrait of Connie (seated) and Kathie Froker, twin daughters of Dean and Mrs. R.K. Froker of Shorewood Hills. He is the dean of the University of Wisconsi...
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Forest Middleton at Piano

Date: 1910
Description: Forest Middleton, wearing eyeglasses and holding a musical score, sits with his back to an upright piano.
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Musical Families

Date: 03 23 1954
Description: Group portrait of the Crownhart family gathered at a piano with french horn and violin. Clockwise from the bottom are: Gretchen, 6, seated at piano, Ginger...
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Musical Families

Date: 03 23 1954
Description: Portrait of the Fromm family playing music. From left, they are: Kathleen, 14, playing cello, Barbara, 18, playing violin, the mother Emily playing the pia...
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Solomon Juneau House

Date: 1976
Description: "Evangeline Koll guides visitors at the Solomon Juneau House."
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Madison Youth Summer Theater

Date: 08 06 1957
Description: Kathy McCloskey, at the piano, and Andy Rothblatt, with a guitar, rehearse a Civil War ballad for the tenth anniversary celebration of the Madison Youth Su...
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Empty Stocking Fund Television Benefit Show

Date: 11 30 1963
Description: Nine eighth grade girls rehearsing for the long television benefit for the Empty Stocking Fund at WISC-TV, co-sponsored by the Wisconsin State Journal

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