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| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Caricature of industrialist Louis H. Allis, son of Edward P. Allis. Louis founded the Mechanical Appliance Company in 1901, which manufactured DC motors fo... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A plat map of the town of Granville in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1845 |
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| Description: | Map of Wisconsin, including lower western border with Iowa, southern border along Illinois, eastern shoreline of Lake Michigan, and northern area along Wis... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | A map of Milwaukee which includes a city street guide. |
| Date: | 11 06 1957 |
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| Description: | A man is playing a small double keyboard, from which tubes are extending. Behind him are large windows looking out towards a street scene. Across the stree... |
| 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: | 11 05 1913 |
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| Description: | Text on the front reads: "The Menominee, Wauwatosa, Wis." The Menominee River flowing through a park-like area. The right bank appears eroded, the left ban... |
| Date: | 07 01 1913 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Milwaukee Asylum for Chronic Insane, Wauwatosa, Wis." Three multistory buildings with towers. A pond, trees, lawn, sidewalks and a br... |
| Date: | 01 27 1907 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Lutheran Theological Seminary, Wauwatosa, Wis." The two-story building with a full basement and a large attic was dedicated in 1893. ... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "West House, Milwaukee Sanitarium, Wauwatosa, Wis. A three-story brick building at the Milwaukee Sanitarium, a privately held institut... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "First Congregational Church, Wauwatosa, Wis." The entrance to a brick, Georgian Revival church built in 1919. The portico has four Do... |
| Date: | 08 29 1906 |
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| Description: | Handwritten on front: "Wauwatosa School." A cyanotype postcard of a brick, multistory school, the stone plaque reads: "Public School." Arched doorways, lar... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Construction Equipment Division. |
| Date: | 10 31 1963 |
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| Description: | A group of children in Halloween costumes are reaching out their hands. Caption reads: "Night for Beggars Spooks and goblins prowled the city... |
| Date: | 09 18 1989 |
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| Description: | A group of people are standing and sitting, including several children in the back of a truck. Caption reads: "Spectators lined the Mexican Independence Da... |
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