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| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of farmer's wagons, teams, and pedestrian traffic crowd Princeton's main street for the monthly market fair. Some snow is on the ground and a... |
| Date: | 10 27 1915 |
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| Description: | Four impoverished men hired by "The Medical Review of Reviews" carry signs with the eugenics slogans, "I am a burden to myself and the State. Should I be a... |
| Date: | 11 11 1957 |
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| Description: | Uptown Post #400 Drill Team in formation firing a salute on Armistice Day while passers-by pause to pay their respects. |
| Date: | 02 1933 |
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| Description: | Winter scene showing snow removal vehicles working to clear the snow on Wisconsin Avenue in Milwaukee after a winter blizzard. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A parade turning the corner from Wisconsin Avenue on to the Capitol Square. A horse-drawn wagon in the foreground carries a May Pole and dancers from the K... |
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| Description: | The screw passenger excursion vessel, "Christopher Columbus," leaving Chicago. Skyline of Chicago is in background with one building with sign reading Armo... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | First electric street railway service in Wisconsin. |
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| Description: | An electric streetcar in Milwaukee with a large Gimbels sign in the background. |
| Date: | 07 09 1960 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of used car lot of Van Drisse Motors, a Ford dealer, at the intersection of Main and Monroe Streets. |
| Date: | 04 1973 |
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| Description: | A Marlboro cigarette billboard advertisement looms over King Street. |
| Date: | 03 15 1955 |
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| Description: | Women from Pittsburgh AFL Retail Clerks' Union Local 1365 picket at the Milwaukee store. |
| Date: | 11 18 1966 |
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| Description: | Two men carry signs to protest exploitation of tenants who are members of Local 404 by their landlord who is manager of College Barber Shop. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Protesters demonstrating for women's rights parade up and down Fifth Avenue. They had previously been arrested at the White House. |
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| Description: | A group of girls gathers on a wooden walkway in the central business district. |
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| Description: | Men and children pose in front of retail businesses and from a second story window, and look out into the street. |
| Date: | 1868 |
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| Description: | The first ladder wagon of Capitol Hook and Ladder Company #1 posed at the corner of Pinckney and Main streets to show off the length of the wagon and the 4... |
| Date: | 10 10 1939 |
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| Description: | Railroad crossing, also showing the main street and the train depot. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Randolph and Dearborn Streets crowded with people, streetcars, and horse-drawn vehicles. Caption reads: "A Busy Day on Dearborn and Randol... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Haertel Brewery which later became the Eulberg Brewery. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View looking up Wisconsin Avenue from the bridge. Many pedestrians, streetcars, and horse-drawn vehicles are visible. |
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