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| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | This map shows parks, block numbers, Lake Michigan, and railroads. Relief is shown by contours. Also included is an explanation that lists how many miles o... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Five teenagers ride "High Wheeler or Penny-Farthing" bicycles down the street. Grand Avenue Congregational Church is in the background. Mature trees are on... |
| Date: | 1894 |
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| Description: | This map shows sewers, intercepting sewers, manholes, block numbers, streets, railroads, parks, cemeteries, and Lake Michigan. The right margin reads: "Tot... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | This map shows streets, wards, railroads, parks, cemeteries, and Lake Michigan. Also included are explanations and an index of points of interest. |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Two maps that show cemeteries, schools, engine houses, railroads, street railways, wards, roads, parks, block numbers, and Lake Michigan. One map has wards... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | This map shows city wards, block numbers, parks, cemeteries, roads, railroads, and selected buildings. The map includes indexes to streets, public building... |
| Date: | 1891 |
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| Description: | Frederick Layton standing on deck smoking a cigar while at sea in a Kodak #2 camera portrait by T.W. Ingersoll from St. Paul, Minnesota. The photographer's... |
| Date: | 02 1893 |
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| Description: | Full-length portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Grace Hayman Fowle. She is wearing a ruffled, flower printed dress. Grace was the niece of Elizabeth... |
| Date: | 02 1893 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter length portrait of Grace Hayman Fowle. She is wearing gloves, and a fur-trimmed cloak over a flower printed and ruffled dress. Grace was the ... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait of Frederick Pabst (1836-1904). He is wearing a suit with white tie and a carnation boutonnierre. |
| Date: | 03 06 1898 |
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| Description: | Death notice and image of Arthur McArthur, Sr. (the last name was sometimes spelled MacArthur). The death notice was printed in the Milwaukee Sunday Sen... |
| Date: | 1894 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter length portrait of Wisconsin's 17th governor, George W. Peck, on a cabinet card. He wears glasses and a suit, vest and necktie, and is standi... |
| Date: | 04 15 1892 |
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| Description: | The masthead page of the first issue of "The Pneumatic," a monthly cycling magazine. It features a cartoon captioned, "A Spring Cycling Episode." |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Mildred wearing a white silk satin dress with corded bodice, while seated in an ornate wooden chair. Her right foot rests on an upholste... |
| Date: | 06 16 1897 |
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| Description: | Overview of the wedding ceremony of Mildred Ormsby (1872-1964) and Harrison S. Green, an attorney, at the St. James Episcopal Church, Milwaukee, on the aft... |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Cudahy showing stock yards and the Cudahy packing houses. A train runs through the center of the image on the Chicago & Northwestern Rai... |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | View of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad station in Milwaukee. A couple is sitting on a bench under an umbrella in the foreground. The baggage car of a ... |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of fishing village on Jones Island, Milwaukee. Several fishing boats are docked along the shoreline. Large piles of lumber are in the foregro... |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Engraving of an elevated view of the Pfister and Vogel Leather Company Menomonee Tannery in Milwaukee. A railroad runs along the side of the factory. Pleas... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | A team of two horses is harnessed to a highly polished carriage with a side lamp. The driver is holding a long whip and is wearing a top hat, winter coat a... |
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