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| Description: | Westmore Hotel and surrounding commercial area looking north from N. 5th and W. Clybourn Streets. Automobiles parked on both sides of the street and in par... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Lake Park streetcar terminal. There is a streetcar in the station with engineers standing in front. |
| Date: | 08 23 1917 |
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| Description: | Man, possibly Joseph Brown, attending to an automobile on the road between Waukesha and Ionsman. Rural landscape and farm in the background. |
| Date: | 10 18 1921 |
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| Description: | Billboard advertising the showing of "The Girl from God's Country," presumably at the Parkway Theater, 3417 W. Lisbon Avenue. |
| Date: | 08 08 1919 |
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| Description: | Elevated view up the Milwaukee River from Wisconsin Avenue bridge. A World War I submarine travels down the Milwaukee River. A crowd is gathered at the riv... |
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| Description: | W.M. Steinmeyer grocery building at the southeast corner of N. 3rd Street and W. Highland Avenue. |
| Date: | 10 17 1921 |
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| Description: | Parkway Theater, 3417 W. Lisbon Avenue. Individuals are walking on sidewalk in front of the buildings. |
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| Description: | Apartment building with caption reading, "Looking south at 719 East Pleasant Street." |
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| Description: | Front view of apartment building located at 920 N. 15th Street. Caption on the negative reads, "Looking East at 920 N. 15th Street." |
| Date: | 07 31 1944 |
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| Description: | Kolmar Laboratories and surrounding commercial area on the east side of N. Broadway between E. Chicago and E. Buffalo Streets. There are parked automobiles... |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking northeast at the Pabst Theater and City Hall on Wells Street, east of the Milwaukee River. |
| Date: | 05 22 1921 |
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| Description: | A crowd of people at Humboldt Park gather for the unveiling of a World War I monument. A family in the foreground with larger crowd in the background. Capt... |
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| Description: | Odie's Gas Station (Wadhams) at 4408 W. Lisbon Avenue, located on the northwest corner of W. Lisbon Avenue and N. 44th Street. |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Capitol Theatre building at 7239 W. Greenfield Avenue, Grimsrud shoe store, and surrounding commercial buildings. |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | View from across the street of the Zenith Theater. Caption on negative reads: "Looking North at Zenith Theatre Bldg. 2498 W. Hopkins". |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Caption on negative reads: "View showing property side of street Zenith Theatre Bldg. 2498 W. Hopkins St. Looking Northeast". |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Looking west from S. 73rd Street at the Capitol Theatre and surrounding commercial buildings along W. Greenfield Avenue. Automobiles are parked on both sid... |
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| Description: | The Roosevelt Theater, 1402 W. North Avenue, and the Jack Gross and Ziegler kosher meat market on the left. There are automobiles parked on the side of the... |
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