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Concertina Dancing Music
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Several people, most of them women, dancing on a dance floor in front of a band on a stage. Caption reads: "CONCERTINA DANCING MUSIC — The woman outnumbered the men as dancers gathered for some old time music by the Milwaukee Cream City Concertina Club. The event was held at Chalet Danceland in Richfield."
July 11, 1985
Howell, Lynn D.
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