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Bessie Gordon at Organ

Date: 08 13 1941
Description: View across counter towards Bessie Gordon sitting at the organ.
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Bessie Gordon at Organ

Date: 08 13 1941
Description: Side view of Bessie Gordon sitting at the organ.
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WIBU Radio Station Main Studio

Date: 06 21 1944
Description: View of the main studio of WIBU Radio Station, 114 North Carroll Street, (Commercial State Bank Building), including one man at the microphone and one man ...
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Lone Cowboy

Date: 01 28 1936
Description: A man dressed as a cowboy is sitting and holding a guitar in front of a microphone in W.I.B.A. studios, 111 King Street, Room 28.
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Sims and Bailey at WIBA

Date: 03 23 1932
Description: Lee Sims, piano player, and Ilo Mae Bailey, singer, at WIBA radio, NBC studios.
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John Ciezczak

Date: 08 11 1941
Description: John Ciezczak (b.1885?), a Polish watchmaker, who sang songs in Polish, Ukrainian, Russian, and Kasshubian for song collector Helene Stratman-Thomas. He is...
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Ho-Chunk Performers

Date: 07 24 1946
Description: Mr. and Mrs. James Hawkins or Henry Thunder and Stella Stacy. Probably at Winnebago (Ho-Chunk) Indian Village.
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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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WHA Show "Fun Time"

Date: 03 16 1945
Description: Group of children seated on the floor at the WHA radio studio listening to a woman (Fanny Steve?) play the piano during a program called "Fun Time".
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WIBA Radio Broadcast

Date: 04 27 1946
Description: WIBA radio broadcast showing five young people; one playing the piano, one playing a violin, and three reading scripts.
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Band and Audience

Date: 1946
Description: An audience watching a musical group put on a show in a tent at the Kansas State Fair.
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Music at Farmers Union Meeting

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Description: Three boys, one playing a guitar, one playing a mandolin, and one singing a song from "Favorite Radio Gems," songbook, as part of a Farmers Union Meeting a...
Poster

"Spirit In Flesh" L.P. Poster

Date: 05 1971
Description: Poster advertising for a new "Spirit in Flesh" LP. Features a bearded singer, holding a microphone and wearing an open vest.
Poster

"The Living Sound" Concert Poster

Date: 11 1971
Description: Poster advertisement for a concert by the group "The Living Sound," at 240 West Gilman Street, in Madison, Wisconsin. Features a reduced purple and red ill...
Poster

Wild Child Butler and His Band

Date: 10 1972
Description: Poster advertising for a concert by Wild Child Butler and His Band, which took place October 20, 1972, at Gordon Commons on the University of Wisconsin-Mad...
Photograph

Les Hartmann and his McCormick-Deering Band

Date: 10 31 1938
Description: Les Hartmann and his McCormick-Deering Band at the Waterloo Dairy Cattle Congress. Eight men and three women are on a stage, presumably ready to perform fo...
Photograph

Gay Marchers Rally at Capitol

Date: 09 09 1979
Description: A large group of people rallying in support of gay rights at the top of State Street on the Capitol Square. They are listening to a man playing guitar. Man...
Photograph

Polka Party

Date: 1957
Description: A crowd gathers to watch men and women dance the polka at the Verona Legion Hall. A man plays a banjo in the background.
Poster

B.B. King Performance

Date: 03 29 1971
Description: Poster advertising a performance by B.B. King at Dewey's. Features a photograph of B.B. King with a guitar, presumably at a performance. The poster was des...
Poster

Doctor Bop and the Headliners at the Nitty Gritty

Date: 08 13 1971
Description: Poster advertising Doctor Bop and the Headliners, starring Al Craven, the White Raven, at the Nitty Gritty. Features autographed portraits of the band memb...

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