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| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Map of home and land, with the roads, lakes, railroad, and buildings. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Magazine illustration of the home, titled: "Soldiers' National Asylum at Milwaukee, Wisconsin". The building is in the background, and in the foreground ar... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Looking southwest. The facility has since become part of the U.S. Veterans Administration Center at 5000 West National Avenue. Two paths and trees surround... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Stereograph; corner of Broad and Wisconsin Avenues. Built in 1870. E.T. Mix, architect. Victorian details decorate the six story building. A small pile of... |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | The building has a fence around it and the yard is filled with trees. Pedestrians are in the road, as well as a man riding a horse. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph. Located on Oneida Street, the opera house is three stories tall, and located across the street from a pharmacy (the Rx sign is hanging above t... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the building, with main arched entrance on the left. There is a bridge on the left over the river. Caption reads: "Pabst Building, Milwau... |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the building. Two trolleys are on the road and in the foreground is a bridge over the river. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Elevated view across street towards the mansion with large yard containing many trees and a fountain on the right. A smokestack is in the distant backgroun... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | View from street of theatre and main entrance on corner of Wells and Water Streets. To the right is a building with a sign for Quaker Oats. On the left cor... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Stereograph. Residence of Giudo Pfister, at 429 Jefferson Street. A tree stands between the sidewalk and the dirt road. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Light factory district. The street is 44 feet between curbs, with vitrified brick pavement. Telephone poles line the road. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Small neighborhood of the city at the west end of the Menomonee River Valley. Overhead is the second Wisconsin Avenue Viaduct, demolished in 1992. Cars a... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking east on Grand Avenue from the corner of Grand Avenue and 2nd Street. Plankinton Block was located between West Water (now Plankinton ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Water Tower surrounded by trees. Caption reads: "Lake Front Water Tower, Milwaukee." |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Water Tower from road, with a faux birchbark background. Caption reads: "Lake Front Water Tower, Milwaukee." |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Elevated view across street toward the hotel which has an awning over the entrance to the sidewalk, which is crowded with many pedestrians. Several horse-d... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Stereograph. The Plankinton House is in the near foreground across the street. A sign for Little Dry Goods, 105, is on the left, above a horse-drawn cart. |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking east on Grand Avenue from the corner of Grand Avenue and 2nd Street. Plankinton Block was located between West Water (now Plankinton ... |
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