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| Date: | 10 21 1947 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "City Hall, West Allis, Wis." The entrance is two stories and has four columns, and the building is partially covered with vines. A wo... |
| Date: | 12 02 1914 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Washington School, West Allis, Wis." A brick school built in 1925. Several additions were built in 1928, 1931 and 1951. Today it is s... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Federal Malleable Co., West Allis, Wis." A large, multi-building factory with railroad tracks leading to it. According to records, th... |
| Date: | 02 25 1936 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Public Library, West Allis, Wis." Built in 1914 of brick in the Neoclassical style, the construction was supported by a gift of $15,0... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of railroad tracks reflecting the light of the sun at either sunrise or sunset. Silhouettes of cranes, power lines and buildings are in the d... |
| Date: | 08 29 1926 |
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| Description: | Rock County farm crops exhibit at the Wisconsin State Fair. |
| Date: | 08 29 1926 |
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| Description: | L.L. Olds Seed Company display booth of flowers and seeds at Wisconsin State Fair. |
| Date: | 08 29 1926 |
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| Description: | Drainage Districts of Central Wisconsin booth at Wisconsin State Fair with crops on display, and photographs around the booth above vegetables on display o... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Five men, each with a small dish in front of them, are sitting around a table in the chemistry laboratory of the Robert A. Johnston Company. Several of the... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | A quarter-length portrait of Herman Otto Brumder (1880-1950) seated at his desk, posed as if signing a document. There is a military poster on the wall beh... |
| Date: | 02 20 1981 |
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| Description: | Several boys in hockey uniforms are walking outside an entrance holding signs, which read: "We are not asking for the state to support us, we are just aski... |
| Date: | 12 28 1982 |
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| Description: | Several people dance with a band in the background. Caption reads: "Holly Ball — Dancers took the floor to the music of Roman Hanes' orchestra Monday at th... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Part of a white pine blister rust exhibit at the Wisconsin State Fair, including a cross section of a white pine tree. |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Cranberry exhibit at the Wisconsin State Fair. The display features crates of cranberries, a section of cranberry bog, cranberry products, and signs promot... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Informal portrait of Katherine Morrissey Dodge Cook seated at a desk in front of a classroom full of students. |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Visitors to the Wisconsin State Fair running for shelter at the onset of a sudden rain shower. |
| Date: | 08 11 1954 |
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| Description: | A woman demonstrates a diet with dairy foods at the Wisconsin State Fair. |
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| Description: | The Fairest of the Fair, Governor Knowles, an unknown man, and Alice in Dairyland pose at the "Milwaukee Sentinel" exhibit at the Wisconsin State Fair. |
| Date: | 08 12 1967 |
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| Description: | A smiling Governor Knowles surveys the Wisconsin State Fairground from the top of the giant Ferris Wheel on the fair's midway. He spent the day at the Stat... |
| Date: | 08 1948 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of a "Pronto-Dog" stand at the Wisconsin Centennial Exposition staffed by three people. Behind the stand is an amusement park ride. |
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