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| Date: | 1920 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A street musician named Frank Ritter playing violin on a city sidewalk (possibly in Chicago), with a dog leashed to his belt. A tin cup is attached to the ... |
| Date: | 08 11 1941 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 08 23 1946 |
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| Description: | Aunt Lily Richmond sang African American spirituals for song collector Helene Stratman-Thomas. Richmond came to Grant County Wisconsin with her parents, fr... |
| Date: | 07 30 1948 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the University of Wisconsin Music Clinic Faculty held each summer for Wisconsin high school student musicians. Left to right: Peter Wilho... |
| Date: | 05 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising a concert by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Field House, May 27, 1971. Features a negat... |
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| Description: | Poster advertising a set of performances by musical group Blue Funkshun. Features a hand-drawn illustration of a man with a guitar case smoking a cigarett... |
| 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: | 04 26 1970 |
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| Description: | Ron "Pigpen" McKernan playing keyboards on stage with the Grateful Dead. His t-shirt reads "Fillmore West." |
| Date: | 04 25 1970 |
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| Description: | A barefoot young female audience member wearing a macrame shirt and smoking a cigarette leans against the ramp to the main stage at the Sound Storm music f... |
| Date: | 04 25 1970 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 04 25 1970 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Sound Storm music festival audience near the crowded stage. |
| Date: | 09 27 1950 |
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| Description: | Walter Heerman discusses the score of Handel's "Messiah" with chorus members. They are Arlene Radl (sitting) and, standing left to right, Matthias Cooper, ... |
| Date: | 04 25 1970 |
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| Description: | An unknown keyboardist, wearing a headband over long hair and smoking a cigarette, is playing keyboards while performing on stage at night at the Sound Sto... |
| Date: | 04 25 1970 |
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| Description: | Part of the Sound Storm music festival audience as seen from the front of the stage at night. A number of people in the crowd are wrapped in blankets. |
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| Description: | Couples are dancing and a man smoking a pipe is sitting in a chair watching. A band plays music on a bandstand in the background. |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Front page of sheet music to "Those Segregated Blues" words and music written by Milt Klamen. A song written about segregation and equal rights for all. |
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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. ... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A group of adults and children at an impromptu concert held outdoors during Freedom Summer outside of the Freedom School at Priest Creek Baptist Church. L... |
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