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| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | African-American school band assembled in a lecture hall at the Piney Woods Country Life School with Agricultural Extension Department workers and charts i... |
| Date: | 05 25 1931 |
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| Description: | Wan Wan San Chinese acrobats and Harris and Van, from the Orpheum Theatre, wearing straw hats, in front of Crescent Clothing Store, 27 N. Pinckney Street. ... |
| Date: | 04 1968 |
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| Description: | Dance interpretation of "Down on Me," a spiritual, as part of the Soul Roots Festival, April 26-27. Silhouettes of dancers with their arms raised. |
| Date: | 04 1968 |
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| Description: | Clown Mathis, dancing to the song "Steal Away" during a performance at the Soul Roots Festival, April 26-27. |
| Date: | 03 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster announcing a benefit performance for the 1971 Ann Arbor Blues Festival. Featuring Jimmy "Fast Fingers" Dawkins, John Hammond, the Sam Lay Blues Revi... |
| Date: | 06 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising for a concert by Ike and Tina Turner at the Dane County Coliseum, in Madison, Wisconsin, June 26th, 1971. Features a picture of Tina Tur... |
| Date: | 05 1960 |
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| Description: | Music being played at a Highlander Folk School student workshop. John Lewis in back, extreme left; James Bevel, kneeling, left (in front of John); Candie A... |
| Date: | 05 1973 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising for "an evening of faith & soul" with Andraé Crouch and the Disciples, billed as America's Number One Soul Gospel Group. Concert took pl... |
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| Description: | Folk singer Guy Carawan plays guitar and sings as James Bevel and Bernard Lafayette sing along. |
| Date: | 04 24 1970 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 04 24 1970 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 04 24 1970 |
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| Description: | Chicago R&B singer Baby Huey standing barefoot on stage wearing an open green shirt on top of coveralls. Members of his horn section are visible in the bac... |
| Date: | 04 24 1970 |
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| Description: | Low angle view of three members of the Baby Huey & the Babysitters horn section, which features a modified trumpet, and a tenor and an alto saxophone. They... |
| Date: | 04 24 1970 |
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| Description: | View from above of Chicago R&B act Baby Huey mid-performance. The band was made up of a three man horn section, electric guitar, drums, congas, electric ba... |
| Date: | 04 24 1970 |
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| Description: | Chicago R&B act Baby Huey mid-performance viewed from stage left. Members of the horn section and percussionists are visible in front of and behind Baby Hu... |
| Date: | 04 24 1970 |
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| Description: | View from above and behind the stage of Chicago R&B act Baby Huey & the Babysitters mid-performance, while the large festival audience stands around the st... |
| Date: | 04 24 1970 |
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| Description: | Chicago R&B act Baby Huey mid-performance viewed from the audience. The band was made up of a three man horn section, electric guitar, drums, congas, elect... |
| Date: | 04 25 1970 |
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| Description: | A crowd of four African American men play conga drums at the Sound Storm music festival for a gathering audience. |
| Date: | 04 25 1970 |
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| Description: | Singer Minnie Riperton performing with psychedelic soul band Rotary Connection on stage at the Sound Storm music festival. Pictured from left to right are ... |
| Date: | 04 25 1970 |
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| Description: | View from below stage of singer Minnie Riperton performing with psychedelic soul band Rotary Connection at the Sound Storm music festival. She is wearing a... |
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