Collection Summary

Title: German-American Music Project Collection
Dates: 1984-1986

Creator:

• Wisconsin Folklife Center

Unique identifier: CSUMC0003-CG

Contents: Mills Music Library Wisconsin Music Archives: 2 folders, 223 sound recordings, 1,132 slides, 21 pieces of ephemera; Wisconsin Historical Society Archives: 69 folders; Wisconsin Historical Society Museum Division: 4 artifacts; UW-Madison Folklore Program: 198 color slides, 898 negatives, 20 contact sheets, 1 slide/tape program

Publisher:

Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures

432 East Campus Mall, Room 332
Madison, Wisconsin 53706
608-262-8180
Web site: http://csumc.wisc.edu

Archival Locations:

UW-Madison Libraries, Mills Music (Map)

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

UW-Madison Folklore Program (Map)

Summary:

The German-American Music Project documented significant aspects of German-American music and related cultural traditions in Wisconsin, mainly in Calumet, Dodge, Marathon, Ozaukee, Sheboygan, and Milwaukee counties. The research and fieldwork, conducted from 1984 to 1986, uncovered a wealth of traditional music and related information on German-American customs, including weddings and holidays. Three fieldworkers and a photographer documented 25 bands or organizations and 60 individuals. The research resulted in a two-disc commercial LP recording of traditional music, a two-hour Wisconsin Public Radio program, and a 30-minute slide/tape program. Materials include field reports, slides, sound recordings, sound recording indexes, and other documentation generated and collected during the project, and the slide/tape program.

Language: Manuscripts and sound recordings are in English and German.

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-csumc-csumc0003cg

Quantity	Description	Location
Manuscript Materials
69	folders	WHS Library-Archives Division
21	pieces of ephemera	WMA Mills Music Library
2	folders	WMA Mills Music Library
Sound Recordings
117	audiocassettes	WMA Mills Music Library
101	7-inch reel-to-reel tapes	WMA Mills Music Library
4	10-inch reel-to-reel tapes	WMA Mills Music Library
1	audiocassette (slideshow soundtrack)	UW-Madison Folklore Program
Graphic Materials
1,132	35 mm color slides	WMA Mills Music Library
198	35 mm color slides	UW-Madison Folklore Program
898	35 mm black-and-white negatives	UW-Madison Folklore Program
208	black-and-white contact sheets	UW-Madison Folklore Program
1	Color slide/Tape program (79 slides)	UW-Madison Folklore Program
Artifacts
3	concertinas	WHS Museum Division
1	concertina case	WHS Museum Division

Staff/Fieldworkers

Philip Martin was Executive Director of the Wisconsin Folklife Center at the time of this project and served as Project Director. Folklorist James P. Leary and ethnomusicologist Philip Bohlman, both Wisconsin natives with prior fieldwork experience in the state, joined Martin in conducting interviews for the project. Photographer Lewis Koch, who had previously worked with Martin on the Wisconsin Old-Time Traditional Music Project, photographed German-American musicians, public events, architecture, and landscapes for the project.

Project History

The German-American Music Project followed upon Phil Martin and Lewis Koch's Wisconsin Old-Time Traditional Music Project, sponsored by Folklore Village Farm in Dodgeville, which had emphasized traditional Norwegian-American fiddling in Wisconsin. By the time of the German-American project, Martin had created the Wisconsin Folklife Center concept as an umbrella entity for his documentary research and productions, which then proved to be the foundation for the Wisconsin Folk Museum and several Wisconsin ethnic music documentary projects and commercial recordings. The German-American Music Project documented significant aspects of German-American music and culture in Wisconsin, from 1984 to 1986, through a cooperative effort between the Wisconsin Folklife Center, then based at Folklore Village Farm, and the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Funding was awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts (Folk Arts), the Kohler Foundation, Stackner Family Foundation, the Wisconsin Arts Board, the Wisconsin Humanities Committee, M&I Banks, and the H.J. Hagge Foundation.

Project director Philip Martin and folklorist James P. Leary, along with documentary photographer Lewis Koch and ethnomusicologist Philip Bohlman, conducted research and interviews with key musicians and traditional practitioners in Calumet, Dodge, Marathon, Ozaukee, Sheboygan, and Milwaukee counties. The researchers recorded a wealth of traditional music and information on subjects such as traditional German-American weddings, shivarees, holidays, foodways, and social history. Besides a capella religious hymns and children's songs, music included numerous dance tunes performed by German concertina players especially, as well as brass and reed Dutchmen ensembles, button accordionists, fiddlers, and experts on Hackbrett (type of hammered dulcimer) and zither. The research and fieldwork generated a number of productions. A commercial two-disc LP recording, Ach Ya!: Traditional German-American Music from Wisconsin, was released in December 1985. It includes 47 songs and melodies performed by 22 individuals or ensembles and emphasizes secular traditional music, especially dance tunes. The selections represent a wide range of family and neighborhood sources, printed songbooks and church hymnals, and semi-commercial radio and dance hall recordings.

A two-hour Wisconsin Public Radio Simply Folk program aired in 1985 and featured artists Ruth Flaker of Wausau, Albert Kolberg from the Sheboygan area, Elfrieda Haese and Heidi Schlei of Colgate, and Irving DeWitz of Hustisford. In 1986, a 30-minute slide/tape program, "Ach Ya!: The Story of German Music in Wisconsin," toured 10 community sites. The historical and contemporary images evoke the long-standing heritage and rich diversity of Wisconsin's German musical traditions, while the synchronized recorded narrative explains the field research process and includes music and interview clips from field recordings.

Wisconsin Music Archives at Mills Music Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison, has an unprocessed collection of materials from the Wisconsin Folk Museum in its archives. An inventory prepared by Ayako Yoshimura in 2003 provides access to the collection. Several boxes include materials related to the German-American Music Project. A "German-American Project" file contains correspondence, a tape index of an interview with Albert Kolberg, field notes on Syl Groeschl, project contacts, press releases, notes concerning the production of the Ach Ya! recordings, and release authorizations. The 7-inch reel masters are contained mostly in Boxes 7-9. Audiocassettes of German music in Wisconsin and interviews and a box of slides are also available. The slides include field documentation, copies of prints from the artists documented, and copies of prints from the Wisconsin Historical Society Visual Materials collections. Finally, there are numerous posters, pamphlets, scores, and newspapers collected during the project.

The Wisconsin Historical Society Library-Archives Division has 69 folders associated with the German-American Music Project. The "Wisconsin Folk Museum Records" (call number M98-044) contain files formerly maintained by the Wisconsin Folk Museum. The files include tape indexes, field notes, flyers, copies of newspaper articles, letters, and some release forms. The Wisconsin Historical Society Museum Division possesses concertinas obtained during the project.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison Folklore Program houses the slide/tape program, which consists of 79 slides and an accompanying audiocassette, plus slides, 898 negatives, and contact sheets of Lewis Koch's photography and historical images. Koch's work includes depictions of musical performers, dancing in clubs, and a Fourth of July parade. Many of the slides of historical images were made from images in the holdings of the Wisconsin Historical Society.

Wisconsin Folksong Collection: Helene Stratman-Thomas Collection. Mills Music Library. UW-Madison.

Wisconsin Folk Art Survey. John Michael Kohler Art Center. Sheboygan, Wisconsin. 1985-1987.

Wisconsin Swiss Traditional Music Project Collection. (CSUMC0005-CG)

"Polka Music, Polka Culture." Traveling photo-text and related in-house exhibits. Wisconsin Folk Museum. 1990-1992; traveling photo-text exhibit is available for viewing and rental through Folklore Village Farm, Dodgeville, Wisconsin.

"In Tune With Tradition" exhibit and catalog. 1990. Cedarburg Cultural Center. Cedarburg, Wisconsin.

In Tune With Tradition: Wisconsin Folk Musical Instruments Project Collection. (CSUMC0035-CG)

Smithsonian/Wisconsin Folklife Festivals Collection. Wisconsin Arts Board. Madison, Wisconsin.

Productions resulting from the described fieldwork were:

Ach Ya!: Traditional German-American Music from Wisconsin. Dodgeville, Wisconsin: Folklore Village Farm Records. 1985.

"Ach Ya!: The Story of German Music in Wisconsin." 1986. Touring 30-minute slide/tape program.

Simply Folk program. Wisconsin Public Radio. Fall 1985. Two-hour segment featuring artists Ruth Flaker, Wausau; Albert Kolberg, Sheboygan area; Elfrieda Haese and Heidi Schlei, Colgate; and Irving DeWitz, Hustisford. (Records now held by the University of Wisconsin Archives, Madison, Wisconsin.)

Groups (Ethnic, National, Cultural, Religious, etc.)

• Dutch
• German Americans
• Germans

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Instruments

• Accordion
• Brass instruments
• Button-key accordion
• Concertina
• Dulcimer
• Hackbrett
• Harmonica
• Violin
• Woodwind instruments
• Zither

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Languages

• English language
• German language

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Locations

• Art Altenburg's Concertina Bar (Milwaukee, Wis.)
• Calumet County (Wis.)
• Dodge County (Wis.)
• Cleveland (Wis.)
• Colgate (Wis.)
• Gasthause Zur Krone (Milwaukee, Wis.)
• Madison (Wis.)
• Maplewood Nursing Home (Sauk City, Wis.)
• Marathon County (Wis.)
• Mayville (Wis.)
• Mead Public Library (Sheboygan, Wis.)
• Menominee Falls (Wis.)
• Milwaukee (Wis.)
• Milwaukee County (Wis.)
• Ozaukee County (Wis.)
• Phil and Clancy's Bar (Watertown, Wis.)
• Sheboygan (Wis.)
• Sheboygan County (Wis.)
• Theide's Tavern (Burnett, Wis.)
• Watertown (Wis.)
• Wausau (Wis.)
• Wisconsin

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Performers

• Adams, Gus
• Altenburg, Art
• Bedder, Louise
• Beringer, Anton
• Braun, Roland
• Bruni, Milton
• Burmeister, Norman
• Check, John F.
• Christensen, Harold
• DeWitz, Bob
• DeWitz, Irving
• Dorschner, Ray
• Dreier, Arthur
• Dreiseitel, Othmar
• Edelbeck, Norm
• Eisenhut, Thomas
• Eske, Will
• Erdman, Bill
• Fischer, Ella Mittelstadt
• Flaker, Ruth
• Gesch, Wilfred
• Giese, Clarence
• Green, Freida Schoen
• Groeschel, Syl
• Gruetzmacher, Dan
• Hacker, Karl, Sr.
• Haese, Douglas J.
• Haese, Elfrieda
• Hartwich, Karl
• Henschel, Julius
• Kaczor, Herman
• Kaczor, Nora
• Kading, Ernest
• Kalk, Edna
• Kaufmann, Aloys
• Kaulitz, Fred
• Kittel, Charles (“Jolly Cholly”)
• Knaack, Melvin
• Kolberg, Albert
• Kreiziger, Oscar
• Kreiziger, Victoria
• Kretsch, Armin
• Kretsch, Lydia
• Krueger, Elmer
• Kuchenbecker, Gary
• Kueling, Rita
• Liamer, Estelle
• Lind, Elizabeth Jaeger
• Meier, Roy
• Menard, Rosemary
• Mueller, John B.
• Peters, Max
• Peters, Helmut
• Peirick, Ed
• Piller, Ed
• Platz, Kenneth
• Rehberger, Frank
• Rex, Jean
• Roeder, Harold
• Schlei, Heidi
• Schliewe, Edwin
• Schmidt, Lewis
• Schomberg, Roland
• Schuetzler, Ken
• Seidel, Rev. Ervin
• Sell, Vernon
• Stratman-Thomas, Helene, 1896-1973
• Till, John
• Till, Elisabeth
• Weber, Carl, Jr.
• Weber, Lillian
• Wendinger, Peter
• Wendinger, Paul
• Wilfahrt, John (“Whoopee John”)
• Watson, Agatha
• Wolfe, Anton
• Zimmerman, Charlie
• Zocher, Henry

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Performers-Groups

• Alte Kameraden Band
• Badger Button Box Club
• Concertina Jamboree
• First Brigade Band (Watertown, Wis.)
• Harbor Lights
• Madison Maennerchor
• Max Drexler Bavarian Brass Band
• Milwaukee Liederkranz
• Karl Hartwich and the Country Dutchmen
• Kiel Municipal Band
• Old Lager Orchestra
• Rainbow Valley Dutchmen
• Vienna Strings
• Watertown Dutchmen
• Wendinger Brothers Band
• Whoopee Norm Edelbeck and the Dairyland Dutchmen
• Wisconsin Dutchmen
• Wisconsin Saengerbezirk

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Subjects

• Yodeling

Wisconsin Folklife Center documentary materials became Wisconsin Folk Museum collections after the museum opened in 1986. Ruth Forrester (formerly Fahnestock) catalogued and numbered the majority of the German-American project's documentary components in 1990-1992. This numbering system remains on the materials that were transferred from the Wisconsin Folk Museum to Mills Music Library, the Wisconsin Historical Society, and University of Wisconsin-Madison Folklore Program upon closure of the museum in 1996.

Contact records custodians for access information.

Wisconsin Music Archives at Mills Music Library
University of Wisconsin-Madison
B162 Memorial Library
728 State St.
Madison, Wisconsin 53706-1494
Email: askmusic@library.wisc.edu
Phone: (608) 263-1884
Web site: http://music.library.wisc.edu

Wisconsin Historical Society
Library-Archives Division
Reference Services, Archives
816 State St.
Madison, Wisconsin 53706
Email: askarchives@wisconsinhistory.org
Phone: (608) 264-6460
Web site: http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Content.aspx?dsNav=N:1142

Wisconsin Historical Society
Museum Division
816 State St.
Madison, Wisconsin 53706
Email: paul.bourcier@wisconsinhistory.org
Phone: (608) 264-6573
Web site: http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Content.aspx?dsNav=N:1133

UW-Madison Folklore Program
Prof. James P. Leary
2315 Sterling Hall
475 N. Charter Street
Madison, Wisconsin 53706
Email: jpleary@wisc.edu
Phone: 608-262-8107
Web site: http://folklore.wisc.edu

Consult repositories for information on use restrictions. For items held at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Folklore Program, duplication of the materials for non-profit personal, educational, and research purposes within the scope of the Program's jurisdiction may be arranged. Duplication of materials for public presentation, publication, and production requires negotiation with the Program Director, the fieldworkers, and the people documented, or their representatives.

Please consult repositories for guidelines. We suggest the following citation form when using direct quotes from a person documented: [Name of person documented]. [Date]. [Tape/video/other]-recorded interview by [Fieldworker name]. [Place interviewed]. [Name of collection/project]. [Repository, city, state]. When using a specific image: [Identify subject matter/people in caption]. Photo/image by [Photographer/fieldworker name]. [Date]. Courtesy of [repository]. To quote fieldworker, follow bibliographical style.

	Series: I: MANUSCRIPT MATERIALS. Mills Music Library Wisconsin Music Archives. Wisconsin Folk Museum Collection.
Box   1	Freistadt Alte Kameraden Band 50th Anniversary Celebration pamphlet, 1992
Box   2	A.P.92.1.14: Instructor for the Concertina, Book 1 by Henry Silberhorn, 1910
Box   2	A.P.92.1.15: Melodies by Lawrence Duchow, New York: Hill and Range Songs, Inc., 1950
Box   2	Ach Ya! Posters Physical Description: Three copies
Box   2	B.92.1.28: Hustisford Concertina Club concert, 1942 April 9-10
Box   3	Scores:
	Little Annie Rooney (with words) in original compositions and arrangements for the Zither by Maurice Jacobi. Washington, D.C.: Franz Waldecker and Co.
	Pastime for Zither Players, arr. Max Maier. San Francisco: Max Maier, 1884
	Pfingstrosen (op. 630). By Jos Rixner in Albumblatter: Sammlung beliebter Zither-Compositionen. Bremen: A.E. Fischer. New York: Carl Fischer.
Box   3	Henry Silberhorn materials (in a yellow envelope):
	Sheet music arr. By Henry Silberhorn Physical Description: 4 pieces
	German Song Album no. 3. Chicago: Henry Silberhorn, 1913
	Henry Silberhorn's Instructor for the Concertina. Chicago: Henry Silberhorn, 1927
	Fifteen Children's songs and games with words arranged and published for concertina. Chicago: Henry Silberhorn, 1928
	Silberhorn music list by Gruetzmacher's Concertina: sales, service, sheet music, T3136 Calico Ln., Wausau, Wisconsin 54401
Box   3	Newspapers (in acid-free paper):
	The Daily Herald, Wausau-Merrill, Wisconsin, 1984 October 18 Note: Includes a cover photo of Dan Gruetzmacher with a concertina.
	Watertown Daily Times, 1976 June 12
Box   3	Wisconsin Folklife Center, Folklore Village Farm Ach Ya! Order forms
Box   4	Miscellaneous German-American materials
	Deutsches Volksliedarchiv, Freiburg (German Folk Song Archive) Scope and Content Note: Letter in German
	Essen Haus Scope and Content Note: Calendar of events for 1988 March and 1989 March
	German American Project file
	Series: II: MANUSCRIPT MATERIALS. Wisconsin Historical Society Library-Archives Division. Wisconsin Folk Museum Records, M98-044. Artist Files.	⇧
Box   1	Artists A-Ka
	Alte Kameraden Band
	Altenburg, Art
	Badger Button Box Club
	Beringer, Anton "Speedy"
	Braun, Roland "Rollie"
	Bruni, Milton
	Burmeister, Norman
	Check, John F.
	Concertina Jamboree
	De Witz, Bob and Irving
	Deutsche Zeitung
	Dorschner, Ray
	Drexler, Max
	Edelbeck, "Whoopee" Norm
	Eisenhut, Thomas
	Eske, Will
	First Brigade, Watertown, Wisconsin
	Fischer, Ella Mittelstadt
	Flaker, Ruth
	Gesch, Wilfred "Willie"
	Giese, Clarence and Loretta
	Green, Friede Schoen
	Groeschl, Syl
	Gruetzmacher, Dan
	Hacker, Karl, Sr. and Norma
	Haese, Elfrieda and Heidi Schlei
	Harbor Lights
	Henschel, Julius
	Kaczor, Herman and Nora
	Kading, Ernest
	Karl and the Country Dutchmen
	Kaufmann, Aloys
	Kaulitz, Fred
Box   2	Artists Ki-Z
	Kiel Municipal Band
	Kittel, Charles "Jolly Cholly"
	Knaack, Melvin
	Kolberg, Albert
	Kreiziger, Oscar and Victoria
	Kretsch, Armin
	Krueger, Elmer
	Kuchenbecker, Gary
	Lind, Elizabeth Jaeger
	Madison Mannerchor
	Maplewood Nursing Home
	Menard, Rosemary and Agatha Watson
	Milwaukee Liederkranz
	Mueller, John
	Peters, Max and Helmut
	Peirick, Ed
	Piller, Ed
	Platz, Kenneth
	Roeder, Harold
	Schliewe, Edwin
	Schomberg, Roland
	Stratman-Thomas, Helene Blotz
	Thiede's Tavern
	Till, John
	Vienna Strings
	Weber, Carl, Jr. and Lillian
	Wendinger, Peter and Paul
	Wilfahrt, (Whoopee) John
	Wisconsin Saengerbezirk
	Wolfe, Anton
	WTKM Radio
	Zimmerman, Charlie
	Zum Kripplein Christi
	Series: III: SOUND RECORDINGS. Mills Music Library Wisconsin Music Archives. Wisconsin Folk Museum Collection.	⇧
Box   5	German-American Project Interviews and Musical Recordings Audiocassettes
	c.91.1.1: Badger Button (Box) "Buf" Club, 1985 April 16
	c.91.1.2: "Jolly Cholly"/Phil and Clancy's Bar, 1985 March 17
	c.91.1.3: Maplewood Nursing Home "German Club," 1985 March 20
	c.91.1.4a-d: Peirick, Ed, 1985 February 8
	c.91.1.5a,b: Knaack, Melvin, 1985 March 27
	c.91.1.6a,b: DeWitz, Irving, 1985 February 2
	c.91.1.7: DeWitz, Bob and Irving, 1985 April 4
	c.91.1.8a-d: Bruni, Milton, 1985 February 2
	c.91.1.9: Bruni, Milton (home tape), 1985 March
	c.91.1.10: Albert Muellor, Fanny Binter "Golden Memories of the Golden Zither"
	c.91.1.11a,b: Lind, Elizabeth, 1985 January 5
	c.91.1.12a-d: Art Altenburg's Concertina Bar, 1985 April 11
	c.91.1.13a,b: Concertina Jamboree, 1985 April 20
	c.91.1.14a,b: Eisenhut, Thomas, 1985 March 5
	c.9.1.15a,b: Piller, Ed, 1985 March 18
	c.9.1.16a,b: Kaczor, Herman and Norma, 1985 February 6
	c.91.1.17a-c: Giese, Clarence, 1985 March 21
	c.91.1.18a,b: Harbor Lights, 1985 May 1
	c.91.1.20a,b: Zimmerman, Charlie, 1985 March 26
	c.91.1.21a-c: Kreiziger, Oscar and Victoria, 1985 March 4
	c.91.1.22a-c: Kaulitz, Fred, 1985 February 5
	c.91.1.23a-c: Theide's Tavern, 1985 April 17
	c.91.1.24a,b: Meier, Roy, 1985 March 14
	c.91.1.25: Erdman, Bill, 1985 March 14
	c.91.1.27a,b: Schomberg, Roland, 1984 December 14
	c.91.1.28a,b: Roeder, Harold, 1984 October 19
	c.91.1.29a,b: Henschel, Julius, 1984 November 14
	c.91.1.30a,b: Mueller, John B., 1984 November 14
	c.91.1.31: Kalk, Edna/Green, Freida, 1984 November 14
	c.91.1.32: Kretsch, Armin and Lydia, 1984 October 19
	c.91.1.33: Mead Public Library Public program-Open discussion, 1984 December 13
	c.91.1.34: Seidel, Rev. Ervin, 1985 March 12
	c.91.1.35: Seidel, Rev. Ervin (copy), 1985 March 12
	c.91.1.36: Liamer, Estelle and Rita Kueling, 1985 March 8
	c.91.1.37: Liamer, Estelle and Rita Kueling (copy), 1985 March 8
	c.91.1.38: Zocher, Henry, 1985 March 14
	c.91.1.39: Zocher, Henry (copy), 1985 March 14
	c.91.1.40: Dreier, Arthur, 1985 March 13
	c.91.1.41: Dreier, Arthur (copy), 1985 March 13
	c.91.1.42a-c: Helene Stratman-Thomas Collection Songs and Dance Music
	c.91.1.43a-c: Helene Stratman-Thomas Collection Songs and Dance Music (copy)
	c.91.1.44a,b: Gesch, Willie and Frank Rehberger, 1984 November 8
	c.91.1.45: Kolberg, Albert, 1984 December 13
	c.91.1.46: Flaker, Ruth, 1985 February 22
	c.91.1.47: Flaker, Ruth (copy), 1985 February 22
	c.91.1.48:
	Hoerter, 1985 February 22
	Burmeister, Norman, 1985 February 23
	Kaufmann, Aloys, 1985 February 24
	c.91.1.49: Hoerter, Burmeister, Kaufmann (copy)
	c.91.1.50: Gruetzmacher, Dan, 1985 February 28
	c.91.1.51: Gruetzmacher, Dan (copy), 1985 February 28
	c.91.1.52: Bohlman Sampler- German American Music from Wisconsin
	c.91.1.53: Groeschel, Syl (duplicate- Cuca Records KS 2031)
	c.91.1.54: Groeschel, Syl (duplicate- Cuca Records KS 2015)
	c.91.1.55: Groeschel, Syl (duplicate- Cuca Records KS 2021)
	c.91.1.56: Groeschel, Syl (duplicate- Cuca Records KS 2031)
	c.91.1.57: Groeschel, Syl (duplicate- Cuca Records KS 2076)
	c.91.1.58a,b: Beringer, Anton, 1985 March 29
	c.91.1.59a-c: Zurkone, Schrammel Band, Vienna Strings, 1985 April 9
	c.91.1.60a,b: Haese, Frieda and Heidi Schlei, 1985 May 1
	c.91.1.61a-c: Till, John and Elisabeth, 1985 May 11
	c.91.1.62a-d: Menard, Rosemary and Agatha Watson, 1985 May 11
	c.91.1.63a,b: Groeschel, Syl, 1985 August 13
	c.91.1.64a,b: Groeschel, Syl (copy), 1985 August 13
	c.91.1.65: Platz, Kenneth, circa 1985 February?
	c.91.1.66a: Andy Roll's recording of Max Peters, 1979-1980
	c.91.1.66b: Jokes/Andy Interviews Max Peter's Family
Box   6	German-American Music in Wisconsin Audiocassettes
	Masters
Box   7	44 7-inch reels (R.91.1.1a - R.91.1.18)
Box   8	44 7-inch reels (R.91.19a - R.91.1.47)
Box   9	13 7-inch reels (R.91.1.48 - R.91.1.56)
Box   11	10-inch reels (project copy reel, field recordings copy reel, etc.)
	Series: IV: GRAPHIC MATERIALS. Mills Music Library Wisconsin Music Archives. Wisconsin Folk Museum Collection.	⇧
Box   12	German American Project slides
	Series: V: GRAPHIC MATERIALS. UW-Madison Folklore Program. Ach Ya! Fieldwork.	⇧
	German American Project Slide/Tape Program
	Lewis Koch Slides
	Lewis Koch Negatives and Contact Sheets Note: These negatives are housed in 8 1/2 x 11 plastic sheets with sleeves; the sheets are numbered.
Sheet   1	Hacker family Physical Description: 30 negatives plus contact sheet
Sheet   2	Syl Groeschl, ACHJA license plate Physical Description: 31 negatives plus contact sheet
Sheet   3	Outdoor event, lecture, guitarist Al Kolberg Physical Description: 36 negatives plus contact sheet
Sheet   4	Historical, Hidebrandt Lanes, button accordion player Fred Kaulitz Physical Description: 35 negatives plus contact sheet
Sheet   5	Kaulitz, dancing, figurines in home Physical Description: 36 negatives plus contact sheet
Sheet   6	Buildings, roads, road signs, cemetery, documents, dancing at Watertown Senior Center, concertina Physical Description: 30 negatives plus contact sheet
Sheet   7	Irving DeWitz and two other concertina players Physical Description: 35 negatives plus contact sheet
Sheet   8	Ed Peirick, concertina player, clock, Zur Krone bar, beer coolers, etc. Physical Description: 36 negatives plus contact sheet
Sheet   9	Zur Krone bar, Rowland Braun on zither, piano accordion player Physical Description: 37 negatives plus contact sheet
Sheet   10	Art Altenburg and his bar Physical Description: 38 negatives plus contact sheet
Sheet   11	Altenburg's bar, historical photos Physical Description: 38 negatives (no contact sheet)
Sheet   12	Female vocalist, wall-mounted clock, scores Physical Description: 33 negatives (no contact sheet)
Sheet   13	Musicians, steins Physical Description: 37 negatives (no contact sheet)
Sheet   14	Singers, festival with brats, log cabin, barn, cemetery Physical Description: 30 negatives (no contact sheet)
Sheet   15	Fourth of July parade (in Freistadt?) Physical Description: 33 negatives (no contact sheet)
Sheet   16	Violin and piano players, two frames of Norske Nook Physical Description: 31 negatives (no contact sheet)
Sheet   17	Historical images Physical Description: 31 negatives plus contact sheet
Sheet   18	Historical images, DeWitz's Concertina Club Physical Description: 34 negatives plus contact sheet
Sheet   19	Historical images, concert bills, Irving DeWitz and daughter Physical Description: 35 negatives plus contact sheet
Sheet   20	Historical images, men in leiderhosen, band publicity photos Physical Description: 37 negatives plus contact sheet
Sheet   21	Historical images, Art Sohre Orchestra Physical Description: 37 negatives plus contact sheet
Sheet   22	Historical images, weddings, bands, meals, fallen tree downtown Physical Description: 38 negatives plus contact sheet
Sheet   23	Historical images from the Peters Brothers Physical Description: 39 negatives plus contact sheet
Sheet   24	Historical images from the Peters Brothers, woman with flag, concertina player Physical Description: 38 negatives plus contact sheet
Sheet   25	Historical images, flyers, etc. Physical Description: 36 negatives plus contact sheet
Sheet   26	Syl Groeschl publicity posters, historical images, band publicity photos Physical Description: 38 negatives plus contact sheet
	Series: VI: ARTIFACTS. Wisconsin Historical Society Museum Division. Wisconsin Folk Museum Artifacts.	⇧
	1996.118.217: Wolfe concertina
	1996.118.218: Concertina, German by Lange-Uhlig Co., Chemnitz, Germany, circa 1910
	1996.118.219.1: Concertina
	1996.118.219.2: Case for Concertina