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Two Men with Guitar

Date: 1920
Description: Two men posing for a studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop. James Gorman, standing, has a pipe in his mouth; the seated man holding a guitar is un...
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Fine Arts Studio

Date: 10 27 1932
Description: Fine Arts Studio corridor, 25 W. Main Street, where individual artists taught music, painting, sculpture, dramatics and other allied arts.
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Men and Women Gathering in Living Room in Cuba

Date: 1949
Description: Three men and two women gather in a living room to listen to one of the men playing a guitar. The room is in the worker housing at an International Harvest...
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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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Singer Joe Glaza

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Description: Joe Glaza plays guitar and sings at a dinner event.
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Madison's First Camp Week

Date: 05 23 1950
Description: Members of the Y-Teen group of the YWCA talk over summer camp plans with Patricia Powell, YWCA staff member who will be in charge of musical activities at ...
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Madison Civic Music Association

Date: 09 27 1950
Description: Busy with arrangements for the Silver Jubilee membership drive of the Madison Civic Music association are the board members. The photograph was taken at th...
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Strayer Business College

Date: 1892
Description: A view of the student library and music room at Strayer Business College. Desks, chairs, and small bookcases with glass doors stand on patterned carpeting ...
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Hotel Agua Caliente

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Description: View of a band and dancers at Hotel Agua Caliente, opened in 1928 and dedicated by Wayne McAllister in Tijuana, Mexico. Guests sit at dining tables on the ...
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Smart Studios

Date: 11 2010
Description: Interior view of Smart Studios. Smart Studios was a recording studio located on East Washington Avenue in Madison, Wisconsin. It was set up in 1983 by Butc...
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Family Piano Recital

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Description: Mary Pierce Bish plays an upright piano while her daughter Margaret Bish, standing to her left, and her mother Mrs. Pierce, seated to her right, look on.
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WMTV's Teen Time

Date: 01 12 1954
Description: Pat Maes and Ronnie Conroy audition for WMTV's Teen Time show while Laird Marshall provides the piano accompaniment.
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Three Piece Orchestra Aboard Freighter

Date: 06 1942
Description: Men in a three piece orchestra, consisting of a guitar, a violin, and a glass jug, posing for a photograph aboard the United Fruit Company's S.S. Santa ...
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Musical Families

Date: 03 23 1954
Description: Portrait of the Fromm family playing music. From left, they are: Kathleen, 14, playing cello, Barbara, 18, playing violin, the mother Emily playing the pia...
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Sigma Alpha Iota Benefit Musicale

Date: 01 27 1956
Description: Mrs. James F. (Elizabeth) Land, 4018 Manitou Way, is general chairman of the annual Sigma Alpha Iota benefit musicale to be held at the residence of the pr...
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Sigma Alpha Iota Music Sorority Alumnae

Date: 06 07 1956
Description: Group portrait of Mrs. Warren B. Woolridge, Marion B. Crownhart, and Helene S. Blotz. The women are officials with the Madison chapter of Sigma Alpha Iota ...
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Sigma Alpha Iota Music Sorority Alumnae

Date: 06 07 1956
Description: Officers of the new Madison alumnae chapter of Sigma Alpha Iota music sorority include Mrs. Phillip Owens (of Portage, Wisconsin); Gertrude H. Stahmann; I...
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Madison Civic Music Association

Date: 06 07 1956
Description: Mrs. Antone Falletti of Evansville, Indiana (left), board member of the American Symphony Orchestra League, sitting at the Bolz home alongside her hostess,...
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Sigma Alpha Iota Benefit Musicale

Date: 02 05 1959
Description: Isabel Hughes, Alice Kirkpatrick, Jeanette Thomas and Mrs. B.D. Craig visiting before the seventh Sigma Alpha Iota benefit musicale and tea. The event was ...
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Philharmonic Rehearsal

Date: 03 31 1959
Description: The Philharmonic Chorus of Madison will give the first performance of a work by Professor Robert Crane, a member of the University of Wisconsin music facul...

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