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| Date: | 04 07 1933 |
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| Description: | Schlitz train and group of revelers, celebrating the end of prohibition in Milwaukee. Schlitz Engine #8027 departs to deliver the first Schlitz beer at 12:... |
| Date: | 08 24 1968 |
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| Description: | Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Kress, dressed in lederhosen, enjoy beer and sweet corn at the Mid-summer Festival. |
| 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: | 08 17 1936 |
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| Description: | Neils Ruud, 824 E. Dayton Street, receiving the first unemployment compensation check issued in Wisconsin from Voyta Wrabetz, chairman of the state industr... |
| Date: | 02 1892 |
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| Description: | Engraving of a fur trader standing in the middle of a circle of seated Indians in their council tepee. |
| Date: | 12 14 1977 |
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| Description: | Man sweeping the walkway and entrance of the Rio Rexall Drugstore. The windows are decorated for the Christmas holiday. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | W.F. Trukenbrod posing on the sidewalk underneath the awning of his store for this New Year's postcard. Text on right reads: "We Wish You A Happy New Year ... |
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| Description: | Lumberjacks eating in a cook shanty; probably early twentieth century. |
| Date: | 12 22 1956 |
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| Description: | Apprehensive young child on Santa's lap. |
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| Description: | Thanksgiving dinner between Native Americans and early Pilgrim settlers in America. |
| Date: | 09 02 1954 |
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| Description: | A group of newly naturalized citizens registering to vote at City Hall. |
| Date: | 06 01 1957 |
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| Description: | Graduates in caps and gowns attend the graduation ceremony. |
| Date: | 08 27 1980 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of a man mowing the lawn at the Veterans' Administration Wood National Cemetery. |
| Date: | 06 26 1955 |
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| Description: | Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Braatz top off the 26-layer wedding cake that Mrs. Braatz made for their daughter's wedding. |
| Date: | 11 25 1965 |
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| Description: | A man takes pleasure in the carving of the Thanksgiving turkey, with other food items in the foreground and vending machines behind him. |
| Date: | 01 30 1958 |
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| Description: | A teacher answers a student's question as the other students cut hearts from construction paper to make valentine cards. |
| Date: | 07 07 1983 |
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| Description: | John Fitzsimmons and Barton Voegeli take a break from discing the fields to eat the birthday cake that Voegeli's wife made to celebrate the occasion. |
| Date: | 08 28 1960 |
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| Description: | An insurance executive carries on with work after he was hit by a car, dictating letters to his secretary from his hospital bed, with his leg in traction. |
| Date: | 12 23 1955 |
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| Description: | Postal workers sort parcels into bins during the Christmas holiday rush. |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | Citizens line up at the City Clerk office to register to vote while a woman raises her hand to take the oath. |
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