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Women Circus Drummers

Date: 1942
Description: Five women drummers with the Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey Circus posing with striped drums. They are wearing band uniforms, including large hats to...
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"Transtar Rose" on Truck Stop Tour

Date: 1975
Description: Bonnie Nelson (a.k.a. "Transtar Rose") singing country music with a band on a stage as part of her truck stop tour. The tour was sponsored by International...
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"Transtar Rose" on Truck Stop Tour

Date: 08 1975
Description: Bonnie Nelson (a.k.a. "Transtar Rose") singing country music with a band on her truck stop tour. The tour ran in the summer of 1975 from Omaha to Des Moine...
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Blackhawk Country Club 1920s Costume Party

Date: 07 23 1955
Description: Dr. and Mrs. L. Riley McCormick, 2117 Monroe Street, in costume playing the piano at the Blackhawk Country Club 1920s costume party.
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Lowell School Christmas Party

Date: 12 14 1944
Description: Eight girls (on the left side from floor to harp) Ruth Quale, Mary Fess, Patricia Kinney, Elaine Tripalin, (girl in the center) Carlene Stoker, (right side...
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Lowell School Russian Dancers

Date: 01 07 1949
Description: Lowell School students staged a demonstration of "Music and Dance" for educators attending the Mid-Winter music clinic at the University of Wisconsin. Four...
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Lowell School Dancers

Date: 01 07 1949
Description: Lowell School students staged a demonstration of "Music and Dance" for educators attending the mid-winter music clinic at the University of Wisconsin. Dori...
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Junior Red Cross Variety Show

Date: 02 23 1949
Description: Junior Red Cross Variety Show at Washington School. Ruth Bowes, acrobat; Delores Spaanem, accordionist; Stefan Anderson, Master of Ceremonies. The students...
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"Giuseppi Antonio Ricardo Di Piazza" Recital Poster

Date: 01 1970
Description: Poster for a graduate piano recital of "Giuseppi Antonio Ricardo Piazza," at the Music Hall Auditorium on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, 4:00 ...
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Band Playing at Fourth of July Parade

Date: 07 04 1944
Description: Band, in full regalia, playing tubas, clarinets and trumpets as well as other instruments, outside at a Fourth of July parade. There is a brick building in...
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Group Party Picture

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Description: Party picture. They are making fun of their pal 'Lucky" Demo's band.
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Studio Portrait of Two Men and a Woman Playing Instruments

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a woman flanked by two men, all standing, wearing minstrel costumes and blackface makeup. The men are pl...
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Three Members of the Rosaline Peck Society, Children of the American Revolution

Date: 02 17 1957
Description: Presenting musical numbers, in costume, at a meeting of the Rosaline Peck Society, Children of the American Revolution include, from left to right, Anne Fa...
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Benefit Musicale at St. Francis House

Date: 03 19 1957
Description: Four women in ethnic costume and gowns pose behind a harp. Shown left to right are: Marjunice West, who sang songs of Norway and is shown in a dress which ...
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Beth Israel Players

Date: 03 14 1961
Description: The Beth Israel Players will present an original musical comedy, "Room for One More" in the auditorium of Beth Israel Center. Shown in a scene from the pla...
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Peter and the Wolf Cast

Date: 11 29 1954
Description: Group portrait of the principal characters for a presentation of "Peter and the Wolf" by the Madison Civic Symphony orchestra and the Kathryn Hubbard dance...
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Carnival of Music at Blackhawk Country Club

Date: 07 15 1961
Description: Wearing costumes to represent the song "The Sheik of Araby" are, left to right: Philip Wipperman, Mrs. John Larsen (Cross Plains), and Jeanne Wipperman.
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Carnival of Music at Blackhawk Country Club

Date: 07 15 1961
Description: Posing in amusing costumes representing well-known songs of the day are (seated) Francis and Betty Coon and (standing) Dorothy and Kenneth Lindquist.
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Carnival of Music at Blackhawk Country Club

Date: 07 15 1961
Description: Posing in a beaded black "Roaring Twenties" dress is Donna Bartel. In the background is Ronald Bartel dressed as "The Moonlight Gambler". Both are represen...
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Amadeus Lobby Card

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Description: Small color lobby card (number 5) for the film Amadeus. Tom Hulce, as Amadeus, works on a score on a billiard table. There are pages of the score sc...

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