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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... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Rear view of Robert Taylor's car, which he used for his work as the Milwaukee Journal's first photographer. A sign displayed across the spare tire r... |
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| Description: | A street scape with people holding umbrellas walking on a sidewalk in the rain. The street shows a business section, and there is a horse-drawn vehicle in ... |
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| Description: | View towards a man sitting in an open car parked on the street. The driver in the vehicle is surrounded by interested onlookers. The left side of the car h... |
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| Description: | Three women wearing large hats ice skating together on a pond. |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Milwaukee's first mail truck, here referred to as an "auto car." The date comes from a similar postcard that is postmarked. Caption reads: "Auto Car in Ma... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Humorous cartoon postcard showing a man flying an airplane constructed primarily of beer bottles, pretzels and sausages, and powered by Miller beer over th... |
| Date: | 07 03 1886 |
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| Description: | Hand-colored postcard of the interior of the Schlitz Palm Garden. Located on N. 3rd Street, south of W. Wisconsin Avenue, the Schlitz Palm Garden opened on... |
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| Description: | Milwaukee postcard showing a glass of beer, a pretzel, a cow and a milk maid. The card also features a short verse about Milwaukee's congeniality: "A cool ... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Five young women in a dance-like pose for a gymnastics class in one of Milwaukee's Social Centers. |
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| Description: | Exterior view across intersection toward the Pfister Hotel. Caption at right reads: "Milwaukee, Hotel Pfister." |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Milwaukee Harvester Works. View from hill towards a large crowd of workers, mainly men and boys, posing in front of the factory in an ... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with Harold O. Hornburg of Hartland, Wisconsin, who stated that "he is standing on the front of the machine with his hands on his hips. His bu... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Several pedestrians cross a city street on a rainy day. |
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| Description: | A crowd of young boys in an alley gathers behind a woman, possibly a suffragist, who appears to have thrown something. From the interior of the building on... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A businessman, dressed in a suit coat and hat looks up while standing near two police officers. Behind them is a crowd of pedestrians on a street. |
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| Description: | A man poses in front of a canoe tied onto his car. A second man looks on from the background. |
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| Description: | A man in a horse-drawn vehicle crosses railroad tracks. |
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| Description: | A group of men gather at a fence to observe construction. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with a man dressed in a winter coat and hat standing in the snow in front of a car. |
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