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| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | International Harvester tent and exhibition at the Iowa State Fair. Includes workers filming Iowa's first television show and a high school brass band ente... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Station manager Ron Nicols and an International Scout truck with plow outside Wisconsin's Very Live Radio station headquarters. WVLR shared quarters with C... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Workers relaxing outside International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. One group is crowded around a stage listening to a band while others are playing baseba... |
| Date: | 09 29 1957 |
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| Description: | Hill's Department Store, 202 State Street, display window featuring a sale on 12" 33 1/3 RPM long play records. |
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| Description: | Zilphia Horton playing an accordion and singing on a picket line. A group of men and women sit in chairs in front of a tent. Sign on left reads, "Peaceful ... |
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| Description: | An exterior view of the Wheeler Conservatory of Music, located at 626 University Avenue. The entrance has a striped tent awning that extends out to the str... |
| Date: | 10 31 1938 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 09 09 1979 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | The United States Coast Guard band plays a concert for a War Bond Drive with Rudy Vallee as its conductor. The original caption reads: "U.S.C.G. (Int'l K-6... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Portrait of a young woman, the prize winner of the Cook County school-home project in music, sitting at a piano. |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | Holiday card of a man and a woman standing on either side of a musical hand cart. They are in front of an industrial building with a large window, and snow... |
| Date: | 02 18 1950 |
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| Description: | The Norman Ebron Band, members of the American Federation of Musicians, segregated Local 587, play coronet, saxophone, piano, drums and standup bass in a d... |
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| Description: | Billboard in front of the J.J. McGillivray Sash and Door Factory advertising "That funny old farmer Uncle Josh Spruceby Has made millions laugh. Opera Hous... |
| Date: | 07 1995 |
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| Description: | "Mayville's Raymond ?, also know as Peggy McEathon sings with the Pete Runde Dixieland Band." |
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| Description: | The Music of Yesterday exhibit at House on the Rock was used in a brochure. The exhibit is "Presenting the magnificent machines of a magnificent era, 1765 ... |
| Date: | 02 09 1928 |
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| Description: | A delivery truck is backed up to a storefront. The sign painted on the side of the truck reads: "When your wants are musical come to Levis Music Store." Th... |
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| Description: | A girl is sitting at a piano. A sign on the piano reads: "Cook County School-Home Project — Music." Hand-tinted lantern slide. |
| Date: | 12 19 1958 |
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| Description: | Employee Christmas Party at the City-County Building. A group of men are shown entertaining and playing musical instruments. |
| Date: | 11 06 1957 |
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| Description: | A man is playing a small double keyboard, from which tubes are extending. Behind him are large windows looking out towards a street scene. Across the stree... |
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