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| Description: | Exterior view from a roof of the Kroening Engineering factory. Cars are parked along the street outside the building. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View down platform towards a railroad depot, with automobiles and several horse-drawn vehicles. A group of people are standing on the platform. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with a house viewed through a "curtain" of icicles. A snow-filled yard is in front of the house. |
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| Description: | From a doorway framing the scene, a man is standing and waving in a yard during a snowstorm. Behind him an automobile is parked in a garage. |
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| Description: | Fire at the elevator of the Atlas Flour Mill. Two men are working a water hose tower in the center, and fire fighters are aiming jets of water at the buil... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of tugboat pulling a steamer caked in ice in a canal. Steam is rising from the water and an open drawbridge can be seen in the background. On... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | A group of people under a tree in a farmyard, with possibly a lake in the background. Two women, with heavy netting on their hats, hold luggage. A toddler ... |
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| Description: | Aerial view of lake, in the upper left. A town with dwellings and other buildings are along the shoreline. Part of the airplane is on the right. |
| Date: | 10 17 1944 |
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| Description: | Elevated view across rooftops towards smoke rising from a burning building in the city. The building on the left has a billboard supporting the Packers. A ... |
| Date: | 02 02 1946 |
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| Description: | View across intersection towards a line of people formed down and around a street corner at the Uptown Theatre. The marquee advertises showings of "San Ant... |
| Date: | 01 18 1940 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of railroad yard, with engines and cars on some of the tracks. Smoke is billowing out from many of the engines, covering much of the yard. Bu... |
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| Description: | Front view of three trains in a snow-filled train yard. The middle train is an old-fashioned steam engine flanked by more modern trains. Three men are stan... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A man in a suit and hat is standing on the side of a train engine in a train yard. Railroad employees can be seen in and on the train, and a group of men a... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Milwaukee Electric Rapid Transit at 20-23rd Streets and St. Paul, looking southeast from a hillside. Snow is on the ground, the buildi... |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of a grain ship on the Kinnickinnic River. There are industrial buildings in the background. |
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| Description: | Smoke coming from two rows of smokestacks on the top of a factory. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a man standing at the front of a freighter, just above the name painted on the side, "James Laughlin". Industrial buildings and water towe... |
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| Description: | Elevated rear view of the freighter "James Laughlin, Duluth". On the right is a sand dredge and large piles of sand. In the background on the left are indu... |
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| Description: | The "James E. McAlpine" in tow of tugboat "Conrad Starke" on the Milwaukee River. |
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