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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View of a boat, the Whittaker, with most people sitting in chairs, and a few men standing. In the background is a steep shoreline, with houses along... |
| Date: | 10 30 1964 |
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| Description: | President Lyndon Johnson accompanied by Governor John Reynolds and Senator Gaylord Nelson is greeted at Mitchell International Airport by girls dressed in ... |
| Date: | 08 27 1961 |
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| Description: | A man playing bagpipes on the deck of a boat. Caption reads: "When the big sailboat fleet docks at a Lake Michigan port after a race, startled salts... |
| Date: | 12 21 1919 |
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| Description: | Group of men posing on the steps of a hotel. Caption reads: "Members of the Paris Symphony Orchestra and the Reception Committee, December 21, 1919. 1 - ... |
| 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: | 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... |
| Date: | 07 05 1989 |
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| Description: | A boy is posing wearing a hat. Behind him is a star-shaped balloon with an American flag pattern. Caption reads: "Raymond Taylor, 8, waited for the judging... |
| Date: | 09 08 1977 |
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| Description: | A woman is standing with her hands on her hips, looking down at a group of children. All the children are wearing hats, several of which are "Bicentennial ... |
| Date: | 07 05 1977 |
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| Description: | A uniformed man wearing sunglasses is standing and looking to his right. Sitting on the curb next to him are two children, who are also wearing sunglasses.... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "German Lutheran Church, South Milwaukee, Wis." A clapboard Lutheran church with a belfry. |
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