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| Date: | 1982 |
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| Description: | Typical room at the Milwaukee River Hilton Inn in MIlwaukee. |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Welding a milk truck at the Heil Corporation in Milwaukee. The Heil company was founded by German-born Julius P. Heil in 1901. As the Heil Rail Joint Wel... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Milwaukee streets department employees repair the intersection of Meinecke Avenue and 12th Street. Behind them, a Blatz truck is making a delivery to the ... |
| Date: | 02 1943 |
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| Description: | Enola O'Connell, the only woman welder at the Heil Company during World War II, working on gasoline trailer tanks. A 32-year-old widow and the mother of o... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Milwaukee's first mail truck, here referred to as an "auto car." The date comes from a similar postcard that is postmarked. Caption reads: "Auto Car in Ma... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | Entrance to the Southgate Shopping Center, Theatre, and parking lot. The proximity of parking to the stores in suburban shopping centers was one of the pr... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Reproduction of an oil painting at the Blatz Brewing Company depicting a happy barmaid holding overflowing steins of beer as she dances atop a barrel of Bl... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Milwaukee Auditorium during an event. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Dousman Warehouse, East Water Street. Originally located on the wharf parallel with the river. Built and used by George and Talbot, brothers of Hercules Do... |
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| Description: | Catalog for the Cream City line of milk cans and other dairy supplies manufactured by Geuden, Paeschke & Frey of Milwaukee. |
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| Description: | People milling about between a trolley car and the main entrance to the State Fair Park. |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Governor Emmanuel L. Philipp with U.S. President William Howard Taft. |
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| Description: | People sitting at tables, drinking and talking. A large banner with a picture of Thaddeus Kosciuszko hangs on the wall. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Humorous cartoon postcard showing a man flying an airplane constructed primarily of beer bottles, pretzels and sausages, and powered by Miller beer over th... |
| Date: | 07 03 1886 |
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| Description: | Hand-colored postcard of the interior of the Schlitz Palm Garden. Located on N. 3rd Street, south of W. Wisconsin Avenue, the Schlitz Palm Garden opened on... |
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| Description: | Milwaukee postcard showing a glass of beer, a pretzel, a cow and a milk maid. The card also features a short verse about Milwaukee's congeniality: "A cool ... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Five young women in a dance-like pose for a gymnastics class in one of Milwaukee's Social Centers. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Panoramic view of Milwaukee looking northeast. City Hall is visible at the left and Lake Michigan can be seen at the upper right. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Hand-colored view of the interior of the bar room in the Schlitz Hotel. |
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| Description: | The original shop in the Davidson family backyard where the first Harley-Davidson motorcycles were assembled. There is snow on the ground. The sign on the ... |
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