Passed to the Present: Folk Arts Along Wisconsin's Ethnic Settlement Trail Project Collection, circa 1992-1995

Key Subjects


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

  • Dutch
  • German Americans
  • Germans

Instruments

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

Languages

  • English language
  • German language

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

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

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

Subjects

  • Yodeling