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Baby's First Birthday

Date: 1911
Description: The J. Robert family posed around baby Fred in a high chair with his first birthday cake. Family members are identified from left as Ellen Taylor Higgins,...
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J. Robert Taylor Family

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Description: Family posed in a line in a yard outside a home. Identified from back: Alma Reinhardt Taylor, Ellen Taylor Higgins, J. Robert Taylor, Donna Taylor Adams, ...
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Women Decorating Monument

Date: 1905
Description: Women placing floral garlands on a monument to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich von Schiller. The women are wearing decorative hats.
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David Rose

Date: 07 25 1902
Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Milwaukee Mayor David S. Rose.
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Usinger's Sausage Factory and Retail Store

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Description: View from across street of Usinger's Sausage Factory and Retail Store on 1030 North Third Street. Note the murals on the left side of the factory.
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Germania Statue

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Description: A statue of a woman is shown in storage after being removed from the Germania Building.
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Bunde & Upmeyer Ad

Date: 1901
Description: Advertisement for Bunde & Upmeyer jewelers with a drawing of a butterfly-winged faerie holding a jeweled nacklace and hovering among several gemstones. The...
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The History of Wisconsin Poster

Date: 1893
Description: John Fawcett Tyrrell, handwriting expert and documents examiner of Milwaukee, standing at left of an illuminated poster, ten feet high, entitled "The Histo...
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Eydie V. Watts

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Description: Quarter-length portrait of Eydie V. Watts, member of the Milwaukee City Civil Service Commission. She is wearing a dark dress or blouse and a necklace and ...
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Hotel Wisconsin Breakfast Menu

Date: 1938
Description: One-page card menu with red borders for club breakfasts at the Hotel Wisconsin. Features the silhouette of a waitress holding a tray with a steaming coffee...
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Portrait of George W. Peck

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Description: Quarter-length semi-profile portrait of Governor George Wilbur Peck, the 17th governor of Wisconsin. His signature is below the portrait.
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Alfred Lawson and Unidentified Woman

Date: 1919
Description: Portrait of Alfred Lawson, with his arm around the shoulders of an unidentified woman who is holding a handkerchief. They are posing while looking out of a...
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Unidentified Woman in Lawson Air Liner

Date: 1919
Description: An unidentified woman is looking out of an open window of a Lawson Air Liner.
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Benediction of Our Lady of Guadalupe Chapel

Date: 12 1926
Description: View across street towards a group of people entering the Santuario del Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe. A U.S. flag and a Mexican flag are draped above the en...
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Construction Site

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Description: Construction site showing men excavating the foundation and basement of a building. Teams of horses are hitched to wagons. The men are using various implem...
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Wagon at Construction Site

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Description: A wagon is being raised or lowered at a construction site. The wagon has chains looped around the axle of each wheel as a man below signals directions. He ...
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Construction Site

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Description: A construction site with a view of the excavated foundation and the street level. At the street level are buildings, people, and horse-drawn wagons. One ma...
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Charles L. Aarons

Date: 1925
Description: Quarter-length portrait of Charles Lehman Aarons, a lawyer and Milwaukee County Circuit Court judge, from 1925 to 1950.
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Communications Class at the YWCA

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Description: Several women attending a class at the YWCA. The word "Communication" is written on a blackboard.
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Solomon Adler

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Description: Engraving of a portrait of Solomon Adler, a clothing merchant and brother to David Adler. He assisted in conducting the first Jewish service in Wisconsin, ...

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