Title: Otto and Iva Rindlisbacher Musical Performance and Family Photographs
Inclusive Dates: 1904, circa 1920-1950

Creator:

• Rindlisbacher, Otto

Call Number: PH 6214; PH 6214 (5)

Quantity: 7 photographs

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Copies of photographs of Otto and Iva Rindlisbacher and various musical groups with which they performed in the upper Midwest, featuring instruments made by Otto. The Rindlisbachers played accordion and guitar and sometimes were billed as “Swiss-Italian Alp Players.” Also present are composite photographs of faculty and graduates of the University of Wisconsin dairy science program in 1904, including J. Rindlisbacher, Otto's father.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-ph06214

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The Historical Society Museum holds Rindlisbacher musical instruments, folk art items made by Otto, and memorabilia from the family tavern, “The Friendly Buckhorn,” in Rice Lake, Wisconsin.

Acquisition Information

Presented by Lois Rindlisbacher Albrecht, Cameron, Wisconsin, 1994. UW photograph transferred from the Museum, 1983. Accession Number: M94-047, F83-046

PH 6214 Item   1	Photograph of poster advertising a show by Professor and Mrs. Skarning featuring the Rindlisbachers, coming to the Chetek Opera House Wednesday, September 17 (could be 1924, 1930, 1941, or 1947) Note: WHi Image ID: 125230.
Item   2	Iva and Otto Rindlisbacher posed in Swiss costume with accordions, guitars, and a violin, 1920 Note: WHi Image ID: 44068.
Item   3	Iva playing a “steel” guitar made of German silver, with a group in Duluth, Minnesota Note: Left to right the group members are Paul Rathke, Huck Holman (singer), Otto and Iva, John Giezendanner (yodler), and Irving Geary. WHi(x3)39692
Item   4	“One of Iva's Hawaiian guitar groups” at Barron County Normal School, posed before a microphone of WJMC in Rice Lake, Wisconsin, circa 1950 Note: Left to right the group members are Jack Jacobson, Iva and Otto, Laura R. Catrona, and Jean Jacobson. WHi(x3)39693
Item   5	Iva playing the first model Otto made of a Viking cello Note: WHi(x3)39694
Item   6	A Viking cello, the final model made by Otto with a Viking's head and star decoration, circa 1940 Note: WHi(x3)39695
PH 6214 (5) Item   7	Composite photograph of faculty and graduates of the University of Wisconsin College of Agriculture dairy science program, 1904