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| Date: | 04 1950 |
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| Description: | A girl on a swing is the subject of photographers demonstrating a technique using high speed flash. |
| Date: | 07 1967 |
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| Description: | Several young boys selling fruit drinks, penny candy, and snow cones to parched pedestrians. A city bus is in the background. |
| Date: | 09 13 1984 |
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| Description: | People working and shopping at a neighborhood garage sale in the Walker's Square Park area. Several neighborhood groups collaborated to sponsor the annual ... |
| Date: | 03 20 1965 |
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| Description: | Several men engaged in a serious card game at the Milwaukee Municipal Social Center, one of several centers devoted to social and recreational programs for... |
| Date: | 04 21 1957 |
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| Description: | An industrious family cleans their motorboat which is parked in the driveway. |
| Date: | 02 1933 |
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| Description: | Winter scene showing snow removal vehicles working to clear the snow on Wisconsin Avenue in Milwaukee after a winter blizzard. |
| Date: | 08 31 1909 |
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| Description: | A coaching party of festively clad men, women, and children departing for the Annual Scottish Games sponsored by the St. Andrews Society. Some participants... |
| Date: | 08 06 1934 |
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| Description: | Reverend Richard Kiefer of Sacred Heart monastery in Hales Corners, Wisconsin, joins in the bingo competition at a Catholic picnic, as women and children a... |
| Date: | 10 14 1912 |
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| Description: | President Theodore Roosevelt leaving the Chicago and North Western depot after arriving in Milwaukee on his October 14th, 1912 visit, during which he was s... |
| Date: | 05 11 1955 |
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| Description: | Chalk lines in the foreground mark the spot where White Elephant Bar owner was shot. Police and detectives conferred in the background after assembling inv... |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Two boys on the class-C scow sailboat "Bobalong III," with one boy balancing off the side while standing with one leg on the bilge keel. |
| Date: | 10 07 1977 |
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| Description: | Man and woman napping on the rocks with their hats down over their eyes as they fish for salmon. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Overhead view of ships tied up for the winter in slips. |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Mary Shaughnessy standing in front of barn where men are loading the silo. Her farm was on the site where Granville School was later built. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Cheesemaker standing on ladder putting cheese on storage shelf, along with rows of other cheeses. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Man in car loaded with milk cans and a large pumpkin or squash looks at man on Harley-Davidson motorcycle. |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Woman sweeping snow off a porch. She is wearing a dress and apron. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Young children reading at the library. A librarian works near the circulation desk in the background. When it opened in 1938, the Library had a seating cap... |
| Date: | 08 15 1942 |
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| Description: | A scene from the Greendale Civilian Defense Rally. Mothers and children sit at a picnic table outside of the "Bendfelt House of Fine Ice Cream" stand opera... |
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