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Chicago Mandolin Club Picnic, Ilgair Park, IL, 1935
Erich O. Legner (bottom row, 3rd from right)
Chicago Mandolin Orchestra, Orchestra Hall, Oct. 1940
Erich O. Legner (far right)
Unidentified Group
Editor: This photo is an eBay purchase. The seller called it a "vintage 1940's photograph - mandolin orchestra - mandola, mandocello, mandolon" (received 4/2012)
2018 CMSA Board Elections
Your CMSA Nominating Committee, Lou Chouinard, Joane Rylander, Sue Lesser, and Susan McLaughlin, has been working since the convention in Milwaukee to bring the membership a slate of candidates to serve three-year terms on the CMSA Board of Directors. The committee...
A Worker’s Union Mandolin Orchestra
This photo is from a union newspaper in Chicago. I believe it was the ILGWU or Amalgamated Clothing Workers, but I’m not sure. The woman sitting lower right is my aunt, Edith Katzman, and I still have that mandolin. I played for a short time but never got very good....
Santa Lucia Mandolin & Guitar Club
The caption says: Kurt Whippler, Founder and Director #3393-2 In the picture margin: America's Exposition, San Diego, California, May 29 - Nov. 11th, 1935 John Sirigo, Official Photographer The picture was taken from the Organ Pavilion, which is still there to see....