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Wisconsin Centennial Parade

Date: 05 29 1948
Description: Wisconsin Centennial Parade. On the street is the University of Wisconsin Bands bass drum on wheels with a depiction of Paul Bunyan on the side. In the bac...
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First Radiophone Band

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Description: The first radiophone band in the United States marches on the Universtiy of Wisconsin campus.
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Wisconsin School of Music Orchestra

Date: 01 14 1950
Description: Wisconsin School of Music orchestra on stage at the Masonic Temple, 301 Wisconsin Avenue. The conductor is Marie Endres. Violist is Martha Porter Kilgour.
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Menominee Indian Band

Date: 1948
Description: Menominee Indian Band playing at the Wisconsin Centennial Year Kick-off Ceremony in the Wisconsin State Capitol. They played a one hour concert in the morn...
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Regimental Reunion of the 36th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry

Date: 1878
Description: Group portrait of veterans of the 36th Wisconsin Regiment posed on the steps of the Wisconsin State Capital in the late 1870s. Some of the men hold drums a...
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Music Rings Out From Campus

Date: 07 13 1957
Description: Pat Harley of East Troy, Wisconsin, is practicing her clarinet in the stairwell during the 1957 Summer Music Clinic on the University of Wisconsin campus.
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Wisconsin High School Student Rehearsal

Date: 02 11 1958
Description: Prof. J. Russell Paxton (left) of the University of Wisconsin School of Music and director of the Wisconsin High Singers posing with participants in the Wo...
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Menominee Indian Band

Date: 01 05 1948
Description: Menominee Indian Band playing at the Wisconsin Centennial Year Kick-off Ceremony in the Wisconsin State Capitol. They played a one hour concert in the mor...
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University of Wisconsin Concert Band

Date: 06 04 1960
Description: Raymond F. Dvorak, center, University of Wisconsin bands director, conducting the concert band at pre-commencement exercises on the Memorial Union Terrace.
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University of Wisconsin Band Reunion

Date: 06 21 1935
Description: A reunion of eight members of the 1915 University of Wisconsin world's fair band with their instruments, director Charles Mann, and current (in 1935) U.W. ...
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High School Music Clinic at University of Wisconsin

Date: 06 12 1950
Description: Robert Blum (second from right) of Evansville plays in the All-State High School Band with other students at the University of Wisconsin high school music ...
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Wisconsin Policemens Protective Association

Date: 05 19 1947
Description: Wisconsin Policemens Protective Association dinner with men seated at a table. A band, Sunny Brown's Orchestra, is playing in the background.
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Music Rings Out from Campus

Date: 07 13 1957
Description: Teenagers walking on the sidewalk with tennis racquets as well as musical instruments as they head for Wisconsin High School to attend the University of Wi...
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Mayor Soglin as Honorary Host

Date: 06 27 1990
Description: Mayor Soglin standing at the microphone as Honorary Host of Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra's Concerts on the Square.
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Philadelphia Orchestra at U.W. Stock Pavilion

Date: 05 10 1962
Description: Philadelphia Orchestra performing at the University of Wisconsin Stock Pavilion.
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University of Wisconsin Marching Band Banquet

Date: 11 21 1960
Description: University of Wisconsin marching band officials pose in front of a plastic replica of a tuba at Madison Chamber of Commerce banquet honoring the band. From...
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Duke Ellington Band Concert

Date: 03 04 1954
Description: Duke Ellington jazz big band performing at the University of Wisconsin Stock Pavilion. Pictured are clarinetist Jimmy Hamilton and bassist Wendell Marshall...
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University of Wisconsin International Students

Date: 01 1960
Description: Five unidentified University of Wisconsin students, all sitting cross-legged on the floor with a small portable pump organ or harmonium. In South Asia, the...
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Dr. Sigrid Prager in His Farewell Concert

Date: 04 23 1948
Description: Dr. Sigfrid Prager conducting the Madison Civic Symphony Orchestra, the Madison Civic Chorus, the University of Wisconsin chorus and soloists in his farewe...
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High School Girls at Lathrop Hall

Date: 04 16 1958
Description: Almost 200 girls from 20 Wisconsin high schools took part in a strenuous day of recreation planned by the Women's Physical Education Club at Lathrop Hall a...

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