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Sinclair Service Station

Date: 1938
Description: Three uniformed employees of the Sinclair Oil Company Service Station, located at 501 East Broadway, standing in front of the station's gas pumps. Two life...
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Air Show Crowd

Date: 09 11 1955
Description: The crowd at "Air Progress Day," an air show sponsored by the Waukesha Aviation Club.
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Waukesha's Primitive Airfield

Date: 1924
Description: A barnstorming pilot and curious onlookers at a field on the outskirts of Waukesha that served as a primitive airport. Technically, the term barnstorming s...
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Home Built Heath

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Description: Carl, Robert, and Ray Breecher at work on their modified parasol Heath airplane. After months of hard work, the plane was completely destroyed during a tes...
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Air Show at Waukesha

Date: 07 19 1931
Description: The crowd at a free air show sponsored by the recently organized Waukesha Aviation Club in order to dedicate their new airport. In actuality, the club's ai...
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Golf Course Landing

Date: 1916
Description: A Standard plane on the golf course of the Waukesha Moor Baths Hotel surrounded by curious onlookers. This landing was representative of the problems encou...
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Waukesha Aviation Club Youth Outreach

Date: 1945
Description: A demonstration of parachute handling for members of a local YMCA by the Waukesha Aviation Club. The club considered such educational activities for young ...
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Waukesha Flying Club

Date: 05 25 1931
Description: The Waukesha Flying Club and their jointly owned Waco 10. The members are (row 1, left to right) Charles Gittner, Joe Rombough, and Roy Winzenreid and (row...
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Waukesha Flyers

Date: 1932
Description: Fritz Warden (at the propeller) and Lee Barney, two young members of the Waukesha Flying Club, together with Barney's Aeronica C2 airplane. The Aeronica w...
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Waukesha, Wis.

Date: 1857
Description: Elevated view of Waukesha with two women wearing dresses with a boy in long pants and tam o'shanter hat in foreground against a split-rail fence. Beyond th...
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Railroad Employee Outing

Date: 08 26 1908
Description: Elevated view of the third annual outing of the employees of the Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Company (TMERL) at Waukesha Beach.
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Barrel Race on the Lake

Date: 06 26 1909
Description: Two men paddle barrels with their hands and feet while a third tips over on Pewaukee Lake at the Waukesha Beach recreation area. Other people watch both f...
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Automobile on Country Road

Date: 08 23 1917
Description: Man, possibly Joseph Brown, attending to an automobile on the road between Waukesha and Ionsman. Rural landscape and farm in the background.
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John Blaine Outside a Hospital in Waukesha

Date: 1922
Description: Group portrait of men standing outside of a hospital entrance. From right to left: John J. Blaine, Wisconsin's 24th governor; Albert A. Fuller of Albert A....
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Alfalfa Ricks on Cornfalfa Farm

Date: 1913
Description: Four men posing near a large, tall stack of alfalfa. One man is sitting in an automobile. The ricks of alfalfa are on the Swartz Brothers' Cornfalfa Farm i...
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Waukesha Firemen Picketing

Date: 08 20 1980
Description: Several people are standing or walking along a sidewalk. Some of the people are holding signs, one of which reads: "19 months without a contract." Caption ...
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Skate-A-Way for ERA

Date: 10 23 1980
Description: Several women and children are walking, riding bicycles, or on roller skates. Some are carrying signs that read: "Equality of rights under the law shall no...
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Asahel Spring

Date: 1873
Description: Stereograph of a group of men and women relaxing around a spring with concentric steps of limestone. The man on the right, holding the dipper, is Dr. Hugo ...
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Farm Elm

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Description: A man is posing in a horse-drawn buggy on the drive in front of a tree-lined fence. Caption on slide reads: "Farm elm near Waukesha, Wis." Hand-tinted lant...
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Methodist Episcopal Church

Date: 08 09 1920
Description: Text on the front reads: "M.E. Church, Waukesha, Wis." Three women and a child stand in the street in front of a limestone church built in 1895 in the Rich...

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