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Transportation Safety for Children

Date: 06 17 1986
Description: A group of children on "hot cycles," a form of young children's transportation, are being instructed on the rules of pedestrian and bicycle transportation ...
Photograph

Waukesha Street Railroad

Date: 05 1950
Description: View across street of street railroad car #63. The car was built by the Cincinnati Car Co., and purchased from the Shaker Heights Rapid Transit Co. by Milw...
Photograph

Waukesha Motor Works

Date: 1940
Description: Aerial view of the Waukesha Motor Works.
Photograph

Waukesha Freeman Building

Date: 1919
Description: Front view of the Waukesha Freeman building, where an abolition paper was published in the 1850's.
Photograph

National Hotel

Date: 1900
Description: View of National Hotel on Main Street.
Postcard

Spring City Hotel

Date: 1905
Description: Exterior view of the Spring City Hotel. Caption reads: "Spring City Hotel, Waukesha, Wis."
Postcard

Five Points, Waukesha

Date: 1907
Description: View towards an intersection in downtown Waukesha. Caption reads: "Five Points, Waukesha, Wis, on Waukesha Line, T.M.E.R. & L. Co."
Postcard

View from Five Points

Date: 1910
Description: View looking east from Five Points, with a bank and dentist's office in the foreground. Caption reads: "East from Five Points, Waukesha, Wis."
Postcard

Main Street

Date: 1905
Description: View down Main Street from Five Points. Caption reads: "Looking down Main St. from Five Points, Waukesha, Wis."
Postcard

Grand Avenue

Date: 1900
Description: View of Grand Avenue. Caption reads: "Grand Avenue, Waukesha, Wis".
Photograph

Clark Station

Date: 1962
Description: Clark gasoline station near Brookfield, Wisconsin, which sold gasoline but not service work.
Postcard

Hotel Majestic

Date: 1927
Description: Hotel Majestic. Caption reads: "Hotel Majestic, Oconomowoc, Wis." An advertisement on the back reads: "Located on intersection of Highways 19 and 67. Situa...
Postcard

Draper Hall

Date: 1900
Description: Exterior of Draper Hall. Caption reads: "Draper Hall, Oconomowoc, Wis."
Print

Square on Street Corner

Date: 1915
Description: View of street corner includes shops, cars parked on street, and two people.
Print

Street Corner

Date: 1915
Description: Clipping from Oconomowoc Enterprise. View of street corner includes shops and people. One sign reads: "Wilsey and Snyder."
Photograph

"Pawnee Bill" Circus Wagon

Date: 1963
Description: The "Pawnee Bill" circus wagon passes Notbohms furniture store and funeral home along a commercial street as a child looks on from the foreground. Multiple...
Photograph

Children Watching Circus Parade

Date: 1963
Description: A woman and three children are watching from the sidewalk as a parade of circus wagons carried on the beds of International trucks proceeds down a commerci...
Photograph

Stereograph View of Downtown Oconomowoc

Date: 1970
Description: Stereograph view of Oconomowoc.
Photograph

Street Scene, Biplane Superimposed

Date: 1910
Description: Street in Genesee Depot, with superimposed biplane flying low overhead.
Map or Atlas

City of Waukesha Wisconsin

Date: 1954
Description: This map of Waukesha shows numbered ward boundaries, roads, and some buildings. The bottom of the map includes a street index.

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