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Holiday Greetings

Date: 1928
Description: Holiday card of a stylized caroler holding a songbook and a wreath. Her scarf is blowing in the wind. The text "Holiday Greetings" appears in a sign in the...
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Holiday Card with A Couple Singing

Date: 1939
Description: Holiday card with a stylized man and woman singing. They are sharing a songbook. He is wearing a top hat, high collar and tie. She is wearing a bonnet and ...
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Seasons Greetings

Date: 1930
Description: Holiday card with two carolers, one violin player and a woman carrying a boar's head on a platter. In the background is a decorative gold fence over black....
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Sigrid's Bavarian Trail — Interior

Date: 03 12 1999
Description: "While dining at Sigrid's Bavarian Trail,our waitress Carrie Pobanz, entertains us by singing 'Edelweiss.' She and her family are moving to Branson, MO, in...
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Singing Group

Date: 1941
Description: Woodcut illustration of four men singing in a group, posed in front of a music stand. There is a large music note in the background.
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Philharmonic Chorus Picnic

Date: 07 28 1953
Description: Four members of the Philharmonic Chorus at a picnic table at their annual picnic. Shown left to right are: Mrs. Ruth (Robert M.) Foster, Mrs. Catherine McC...
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Blackhawk Country Club Gay 90's Party

Date: 07 21 1953
Description: Musical entertainment at the Blackhawk Country Club Gay 90's party. Helen Nichols is accompanying a trio on the piano. Singers are, left to right: Dr. L.R...
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Zonta Style Show

Date: 09 07 1953
Description: Vera Weikel Adams, a lyrico-spinto soprano, sits at a piano during the Zonta Style Show. Adams sang two groups of songs during the show.
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Quarternotes

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Description: The Quarternotes, an award-winning barbershop-style singing group from Racine that was formed about 1945. They are, left to right: Virginia Clausen, Phylli...
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Olivia Monona

Date: 06 1904
Description: Olivia Goldenberger, who was born in Madison, but went on to perform under the stage name Olivia Monona with the Chicago Opera and the Metropolitan Opera, ...
Postcard

Diva

Date: 03 1912
Description: Olivia Monona wearing a costume worn as a chorus member of the Chicago Opera. The image is a photographic postcard she sent to Oscar Hanke, a violinist wit...
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Gold Dust Twins

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Description: The Gold Dust Twins were a popular comedy-musical act that toured in the Midwest during the 1950s. The two men sang, danced, and performed banjo music, as ...
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Ben and Olivia Goldenberger

Date: 1910
Description: Ben Goldenberger and his sister Olivia face each other over a small table. There is a menorah on the bookcase in the background. Ben would later change his...
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The Incomparable Hildegarde

Date: 03 1941
Description: Hildegarde Loretta Sell, better known as Hildegarde, was a well known cabaret singer who was born in Adell, Wisconsin in 1906 and raised in New Holstein. D...
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Empty Stocking Club

Date: 12 23 1954
Description: Louise Marston (right), society editor, accepts a check from three barbershop singers for the Wisconsin State Journal's Empty Stocking Fund. The don...
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Madison Capitol Park Carolers

Date: 12 05 1955
Description: A group of nine children carol at the Nativity crib erected near the Wisconsin State Capitol's State Street entrance by the Madison Deanery Council of Cath...
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Taliesin Fellowship Choir

Date: 08 28 1955
Description: Frank Lloyd Wright visited the First Unitarian Society Meeting House, a building he designed, to be filmed by the Omnibus television program. In addition t...
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Kennedy Trio

Date: 03 07 1956
Description: The Kennedy Trio, sons of Bob and Juliane Kennedy, are shown left to right: Stephan, 7; Brian, 9; and Richard, 11. They will sing at the annual St. Patrick...
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A.J. Schneider Music Co. Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the A.J. Schneider Music Company of Kenosha, Wisconsin, dealers in "pianos, victrolas, records, etc.," with a lineup of well-known opera sing...
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Philharmonic Chorus Members

Date: 05 14 1956
Description: Seated at his desk is Darwin H. Leavitt, statistician at Oscar Mayer & Company. He is also a member of and treasurer for the Philharmonic Chorus. The choru...

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