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Filter: Year of 1930-1939
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Informal portrait of J. Robert Taylor at his desk talking on the phone. |
| Date: | 10 28 1938 |
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| Description: | Docks and shanties at Jones Island, with smokestacks and cranes in the background. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Several houses along the road next to a local restaurant with several signs advertising food and drink. A car is on the far left in the road. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the 800 block of South Third Street, with three large houses lining the road. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Three men on pilings posing with man in a diving suit in preparation for a dive. Onlookers are standing above on a bridge in the background. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Man in diving suit being helped out of the water by three men in a rowboat. |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Three horse-drawn fire engines are in the street with steam rising from their tanks. Other fire vehicles are to the right. Many pedestrians are on the stre... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Groups of fire fighters work to put out a fire in winter. Smoke is billowing out the windows and covering the facade. A building on the far left has a sign... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Small clusters of fire fighters work to put out a fire with fire hoses, which are aimed high at a building covered in smoke. |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | A small group of four fighters and one of their bosses are standing amid burned remnants from a fire. One man is holding a fire hose that is spraying water... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Three boys playing in the water near the shoreline with their pants rolled above their knees. A fourth boy is squatting on the grassy shore, poking one of ... |
| Date: | 10 01 1938 |
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| Description: | J. Robert Taylor cleaning a furnace. He has a broom and a small brush in hand, a pipe in his mouth, and a dirty rag placed on his head. He is reading a doc... |
| Date: | 06 09 1939 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Milwaukee County Court House, with a tree-filled park area in the foreground and the city in the background. There is debris on the roof, ... |
| Date: | 06 19 1939 |
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| Description: | Milwaukee County Court House being demolished. A wing of the building is gone, and many windows are broken. |
| Date: | 06 19 1939 |
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| Description: | Milwaukee County Court House in the process of being razed. A worker is standing on part of the second floor, in front of what is left of the dome. |
| Date: | 10 17 1931 |
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| Description: | View from below of blimp, USS "Akron" during a test flight that took it over Milwaukee. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | A man in the distance is sitting in a field, with a covered bridge behind him spanning a river. Trees are at each end of the bridge, and a fence runs along... |
| Date: | 10 28 1938 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Jones Island, with some houses near the water and an industrial area across the river. On the right are a number of railroad tracks next t... |
| Date: | 10 28 1938 |
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| Description: | From Jones Island, looking across to a manufacturing area with cranes and large piles of coal or coke? In the lower foreground is a bare hill, with old pil... |
| Date: | 10 28 1938 |
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| Description: | Man inspecting fish hung up to dry in a yard on Jones Island. |
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