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Directing an "Action Song"

Date: 1919
Description: Miss Streeter leading school children in the "shoemaker's song". Another woman is standing near a Victrola. The children are outdoors under trees. Possibly...
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Outdoor Portrait of Ho-Chunk Man

Date: 07 24 1946
Description: Outdoor full-length portrait of Sam Blowsnake-Carley at Winnebago (Ho-Chunk) Indian Village wearing a headdress in front of a teepee.
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Fuller Opera House

Date: 1895
Description: Exterior view across Mifflin Street towards the Fuller Opera House, which later became the Parkway Theater and was razed in 1954. The City Hall is next doo...
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Science Hall along Park Street

Date: 1887
Description: Exterior of Science Hall on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. View from across Park Street taken shortly after completion of new building after f...
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Festival Grounds Camping Area

Date: 04 25 1970
Description: The Sound Storm music festival site as seen from the camping area. Attendees mill around many tents, campers and automobiles. In the far background a large...
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Couple on Hill

Date: 04 25 1970
Description: A couple take a break from the crowded audience to embrace on the edge of a steep ditch with part of the Sound Storm festival scaffolding visible behind th...
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Man Dancing

Date: 04 25 1970
Description: A man wearing a hat, shorts, and fringed vest, with a pipe strung onto hit belt loop, dances among a crowd of other audience members at the Sound Storm mus...
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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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Logging Camp

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Description: Men posed sitting and standing in a logging camp in front of a steam locomotive. A man in the middle foreground is posed sitting and playing a concertina. ...
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Barnyard Quintet

Date: 1890
Description: Quintet of chamber musicians posed in barnyard.
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Large Crowd Posed on a Lawn

Date: 1902
Description: Large group of men, women and children, unidentified, posed with members of a brass band at a gathering. The group is posed in front of and behind a fence,...
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Sound Storm Rock Festival

Date: 04 25 1970
Description: Group of men and women sitting on the ground and working on equipment at the "Sound Storm" rock festival. Trucks and automobiles are parked in the backgrou...
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Rock Festival

Date: 06 27 1970
Description: Elevated view from back of stage of band playing at a rock festival at the "People's Fair." In the background is a crowd watching from a lawn. Tents are on...

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