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| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Beechnut Gum girls, posed in front of an automobile, promoting the product for a national advertising campaign. |
| Date: | 06 29 1932 |
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| Description: | Hommel's Star Food Store at 606 S. Park Street, with promotional truck in front of store, and children looking on. Vehicle (Ballyhoo Truck) has a painted s... |
| Date: | 04 16 1932 |
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| Description: | Olson & Johnson milking cows in front of the Orpheum Theatre, 216 State Street, promoting their show "Atrocities of 1932." |
| Date: | 10 17 1930 |
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| Description: | Charlotte Hilton playing the Victor Theremin musical instrument invented by Leon Theremin, at the Ludlow Radio Company store, 116 N. Fairchild Street. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of people, horses, and farm machines gathered on the town's main street for a "McCormick Day" celebration, with several grain binders and a b... |
| Date: | 08 15 1941 |
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| Description: | Otto Rindlisbacher, folk singer and maker of stringed instruments, and violin collection, sitting in his shop holding a Hardanger fiddle. Caption at bottom... |
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| Description: | Interior of the Leslie Werner Repair Shop. A worker is repairing a violin and there are many bicycle rims and parts in view. |
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| Description: | A "cart before the horse" rig advertising the "A.F. Werner, Bargains in Everything, Black River Falls, Wis.", with a man wearing a fake bushy beard and hol... |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of men driving a circus calliope for a parade in town. A calliope is a musical instrument that produces sound by sending steam throu... |
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| Description: | Band in two lines, facing each other, on Main Street in front of the A.F. Werner Drugstore. |
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| Description: | Wagon with band followed by a wagon with an advertisement. |
| Date: | 11 11 1947 |
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| Description: | Armistice Day ceremony, looking down State Street, with a drum and bugle corps on the left and other veterans in uniform standing at attention near the cen... |
| Date: | 07 1886 |
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| Description: | Intersection of 4th and Steele Streets facing east. The building in the lower right is the Knipfer building, now Algoma Mercantile. Bunting adorns the Boed... |
| Date: | 03 1971 |
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| Description: | Concert poster for "White Lightning" at Snoopy's in Madison, Wisconsin, March 23-24, 1971. |
| Date: | 07 04 1944 |
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| Description: | A marching band in full regalia in a Fourth of July parade. They are walking in the street, spectators are along the grass near the curb, and storefronts a... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Three Men Playing Musical Instruments, Edward Schwaller at left; Frank H. Schwaller in middle; man at right unidentified. Probably inside Schwaller Music ... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of crowd of people gathering for a downtown parade. A marching band is on the right behind a man on horseback, and in the background are hors... |
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| Description: | View from across road of Schempf Brothers storefront. On the left is a storefront for W.D. Sproesser, which is selling musical instruments. In the doorway ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Scene still on the set of a Mack Sennett Comedy, probably Those Athletic Girls of 1918. Louise Fazenda does a Russian dance. To the left of her is P... |
| Date: | 10 30 1951 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of 13 preschool children, sitting and holding rhythm band instruments. There is a Halloween jack-o-lantern placed in the center of the group... |
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