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| Description: | A motorcyclist drives down the middle of the road, possibly in a race, as a crowd looks on. |
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| Description: | A crowd of people in the street, many of them with motorcycles, possibly getting ready to race. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Popular bathing beaches like this one on Lake Michigan offered relief from the heat as well as the opportunity to be seen in the latest fashions of the 191... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of Milwaukee City Hall. Caption reads: "City Hall, Milwaukee, Wis." |
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| Description: | The screw rail ferry, Pere Marquette 18, entering the harbor. Caption reads: "Pere Marquette Steamer Entering, Milwaukee, Wis." |
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| Description: | Colorized view depicting the passenger excursion vessel, "Christopher Columbus," approaching the East Water Street Bridge. Caption reads: "Whaleback Steame... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | The Wright Model B owned by Farnum Fish flying at the Wisconsin State Fairgrounds in 1912. |
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| Description: | An unidentified balloon ascension photographed by Milwaukee Journal news photographer J. Robert Taylor. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Farnum Fish, the California-born "boy aviator," about to take off in his two-seat Wright Model B during a flying exhibition at the Wisconsin State Fairgrou... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Dr. A. Rudolph Silverston's vacu-aerial flying machine, as seen from the rear. Handwritten at top: "Rear View." Caption at bottom reads: "Silverston's Milw... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | An unidentified student among a group of men getting a lesson in a Curtiss plane at Rudolph Silverston's Milwaukee School and College of Aviation. Caption ... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Union Depot with clock tower. The railroad station with clock tower is behind a park. Horse-drawn vehicles are near the entrance. Caption reads: "Union Dep... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Elevated view across valley toward a streetcar viaduct on the Waukesha Interurban Line, near Milwaukee. Caption reads: "Street Car Bridge on Waukesha Inter... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Colorized view of the railroad curve near Whitefish Bay resort. Caption reads: "The Curve near Whitefish Bay Resort." |
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| Description: | Western Hotel. The original tavern was built in 1834 (?) by William Shields (?). In 1845 it was operated by his son Simon Shields. In 1873 the Hotel was ta... |
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| Description: | A woman driving a two-wheeled carriage pulled by two white horses. |
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| Description: | A man driving an early truck (ca. 1910). The front is labeled "Sampson". |
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| Description: | Men, women and children soaking up the sun on the beach of a lake (probably Lake Michigan). The children are digging in the sand in the foreground, and the... |
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| Description: | Pier lined with people fishing on a lake (probably Lake Michigan). Men are returning toward shore, and other men are sitting and fishing, lined up along th... |
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