Bygone Americana

The Ingenues, an all-girls band and vaudeville act, serenading the cows in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Dairy Barn in a scientific test of whether the cows would give more milk to the soothing strains of music, 1930.

The Ingenues, an all-girls band and vaudeville act, serenading the cows in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Dairy Barn in a scientific test of whether the cows would give more milk to the soothing strains of music, 1930.

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Couple floating on inner tube in Apple River. Somerset, 1941.
By Alfred Eisenstaedt

Couple floating on inner tube in Apple River. Somerset, 1941.

By Alfred Eisenstaedt

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College students Brooks Conrad and Merrilyn Olson kissing at end of date. Madison, 1939.
By Alfred Eisenstaedt

College students Brooks Conrad and Merrilyn Olson kissing at end of date. Madison, 1939.

By Alfred Eisenstaedt

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