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| Date: | 10 1959 |
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| Description: | Moving a very large boulder with a bulldozer during construction of Highway 94 in Waukesha County. |
| Date: | 09 11 1955 |
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| Description: | The crowd at "Air Progress Day," an air show sponsored by the Waukesha Aviation Club. |
| Date: | 02 14 1958 |
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| Description: | Elmer J. Schmidt makes furniture and toys in his woodshop even though he has only one arm to work with. |
| Date: | 06 26 1955 |
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| Description: | Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Braatz top off the 26-layer wedding cake that Mrs. Braatz made for their daughter's wedding. |
| Date: | 05 1950 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | The Cushing Memorial State Park was established in 1915 by the State and the Waukesha County Historical Society. Its grounds, formerly the Cushing family h... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | White church in the trees. The ground is covered with snow. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | View across snow-covered ground towards the front and right sides of the church through some pine trees. |
| Date: | 09 1950 |
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| Description: | Walter J. Kohler, Jr., campaigning during the 1950 Republican gubernatorial primary at the Sales Pavilion in Waukesha. Kohler is speaking into a microphon... |
| Date: | 10 1959 |
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| Description: | Construction of Interstate Highway I-94 in Waukesha County using an earthmover manufactured by Allis Chalmers. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Perspective drawing of a bedroom in the Graber Lakehouse designed by John Randal McDonald. |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Interior perspective drawing of the living room of Robert and Rhoda Silver designed by John Randal McDonald. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Interior perspective of the living room of the Robert W. Liske house designed and drawn by architect John Randal McDonald. The home was named "Sunny Crest"... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Interior perspective drawing of the living room of the Fred Graber house designed and drawn by architect John Randal McDonald. |
| Date: | 08 10 1954 |
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| Description: | Studio photograph of Dr. David Roberts Badger Balm. Dr. Roberts (1866-1951) was a Waukesha veterinarian. In 1904, he incorporated the Dr. David Robert's V... |
| Date: | 08 10 1954 |
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| Description: | Studio photograph of a one-pound can of Dr. David Roberts Ratu-Bait containing Warfarin. The active ingredient is an anti-coagulate which prevents a block ... |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | A handout urging citizens to re-elect Republican candidate Michael Lombardi for Sheriff of Waukesha County. He was re-elected, and served the statutory lim... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Map shows landownership and acreages, roads, and railroads in the Town of Waukesha and part of the city of Waukesha, Waukesha County, Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 02 1956 |
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| Description: | This 1956 map of Waukesha County, Wisconsin, shows the township and range grid, towns, sections, cities and villages, roads, railroads, dams, airports, par... |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| 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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