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[Men in Lounge]

Description: Photograph of men sitting in a lounge. Three men sit around a table in the center, while another plays a piano to the left. Chairs are lined up against the right wall. An American flag is in the foreground.
Date: 1943~
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[William Giannopoulos Playing a Backwards Fiddle]

Description: Photograph of William Giannopoulos holding a fiddle by its body with its pegboard under his chin. The dark haired man wears glasses, a wristwatch, and a white Texas Aggies tee shirt. A blurry man behind the fiddle wears a uniform and garrison cap while splaying his fingers out from the sides of his head. This man is identified as Boskev. The two men are standing outdoors on a path that leads towards white three-story buildings.
Date: December 1943
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Soldiers Playing Live Music]

Description: Photograph of Leathernecks of Headquarters Squadron 24, Marine Aircraft Group 24 listen to music courtesy of Stephen Koenig, III (violin) and others while aboard ship somewhere in the South Pacific during 1943. Cpl. Koenig from Alvin, Texas was a field music stationed at Marine Corps Air Station Santa Barbara, California, with MAG-24 before deployment to the island of Bougainville. Three soldiers in the center of the frame hold an archtop acoustic guitar, a violin, and a mandolin. The soldier p… more
Date: 1943
Partner: Private Collection of the Koenig Family

[Performer on Stage]

Description: Photograph of a man on stage with a guitar. he is wearing a collared button up, belt, pants and calf length boots. There is a standing microphone in front of him, and a man sitting at a piano to his left. There is a crowd behind them as well as several palm trees. Handwritten in the upper right-hand corner is "2/27/43 "Saig" Sprinkle Johnny Marino"
Date: February 27, 1943
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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