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| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | A caravan of trucks are parked along both sides of a road en route from International Harvester's Akron Works factory in Ohio to Chicago. A sign on one of ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Exterior of A.O. Smith Laboratories. Architects were Holabird and Root. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of rivers, with Lake Michigan in upper right, train yards, and highway in lower left. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of downtown with City Hall and Milwaukee River. |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of tanning company owned by Guido Pfister & Fred Vogel in Milwaukee in the 1840s. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | International model "F" or "31" truck operated by Stacy Bismarck Company. The truck is parked on a city street, with possibly a car dealership in the backg... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | View from the southeast. House is one story, with a larger building behind it. The porch has four fluted columns and siding along the walls. A side room ... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Exterior of building. A large advertising sign is on the right side, behind a large smokestack. A smaller sign stating "For Rent O.J. Schenck" has been h... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Four-story building, with vines growing on the exterior. A woman stands near the entrance on the right. Above the doorway a sign says "Dentistry". A car i... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of Miller Gardens. A billboard for Miller Gardens and beer is above the first building on the left. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Exterior of library building, with a portion of the dome visible on the roof, from across the street behind a median strip planted with bushes. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Exterior of theatre on corner of Wells and Water Streets. There is a billboard for Kools (cigarettes) on the side. Streetcar tracks and parked cars are in ... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Corner of Wells and Water Streets. A large blank billboard is on the side of the theatre. Across the road on the left is a sign for Blatz beer. A car wash ... |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Exterior of house at 525 Jefferson Street. The first bathtub in Milwaukee, made of tin, was put into this house. A man in a horse-drawn sled is parked in... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Historic marker placed on the site of the first cabin built in Milwaukee, 1795. A replica cabin is behind. The plaque says: On this site the first permane... |
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| Description: | Three-story brick building with two entrances, windows, and a hip roof. Signs above both entrances says: County Normal. |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin's Third Capitol building seen from across the road, with a fountain just inside the gate, which has sculptures on top of the columns. The grounds... |
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| Description: | Vine-covered building surrounded by trees. First home of Samuel L. and Helen Larkin Chase, built ca. 1857 on a 2-acre tract on the north shore of Lake Wing... |
| Date: | 05 30 1973 |
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| Description: | Memorial Union in the rain. Lake Mendota is visible on the left. In the foreground is the terrace area with trees and brightly colored chairs and tables. P... |
| Date: | 1977 |
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| Description: | Miller Brewery taken as part of a project to document the Wisconsin brewing industry. |
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