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Schlitz Train Celebrating End of Prohibition

Date: 04 07 1933
Description: Schlitz train and group of revelers, celebrating the end of prohibition in Milwaukee. Schlitz Engine #8027 departs to deliver the first Schlitz beer at 12:...
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Dickey Chapelle Covering Operation Inland Seas

Date: 07 1959
Description: Dickey Chapelle, photographer, on the same Milwaukee beach where she learned to swim as a young girl. She was covering "Operation Inland Seas" celebrating ...
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Woman in Man's Suit

Date: 03 17 1963
Description: A woman modeling a men's suit, while holding an umbrella and wearing a top hat. She is reflected by a mirror in the background.
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Construction Of Streetcar Tracks

Date: 1905
Description: Construction crew building a double streetcar track around the Capitol Square on North Pinckney Street. The oversized awnings were common around the Square...
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Female Circus Performer

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Description: A female Cole Brothers Circus performer is shown in costume, wearing a tall plumed hat, with a tent as a backdrop.
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Circus Show Buggy and Bandwagon

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Description: Dode Fisk, the operator of a dog and pony show and circus, drives a wire-wheeled show buggy pulled by the horse "Bobby". They are photographed next to a ...
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Support Propeller Shaft

Date: 08 15 1967
Description: A roll on/roll off freighter is shown and was later purchased by Sun Shipbuilding. Falk caption reads, "Half strut for 646 single screw-roll on/roll off fr...
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Maxipress

Date: 01 24 1968
Description: This maxipress purchased by The National Machinery Company. Falk caption reads, "6000 ton maxipress, 23-120T .7854DP (4 inch CP), 16 inch face. Gear: alloy...
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Tire Curing Press

Date: 03 11 1968
Description: Tire curing press that was later purchased by McNeil Akron Corporation. Falk caption reads, "14-90T, 10 P Spur, 7 inch face. Crank gears have two unique fe...
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Turbine Drive

Date: 03 11 1968
Description: This turbine drive was later purchased and used by The Whiton Machine Company. Falk caption reads, "1110YPA-1 speed reducer with lube system and cooler, ra...
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Bull Gear

Date: 06 12 1968
Description: Bull gear for shaft mounted on a BOF drive. This gear was later purchased by Pennsylvania Engineering Corporation and used by Youngstown Sheet and Tube. Fa...
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Cam or Casting

Date: 06 16 1969
Description: View of a cam that is a component of a 185 cubic yard Walkray Dragline that was purchased and used by Bucyries-Erie Company. An individual cam weight 51,20...
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Farmers Union Members by Fertilizer Co-op

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Description: Private building of Farmers Union Fertilizer Co-op, with three men in work clothes sitting in front. Junior Marlow on right.
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Packinghouse Worker Cutting Pig

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Description: A packinghouse worker at an unidentified slaughterhouse butchering a pig. A button on his hat reads, "No raise, no work".
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Farming Family in Yard

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Description: Portrait of an unidentified farm family in a fenced yard.
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Workers Take a Break from Building Farmers Union Coop

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Description: Workers taking a break from building Farmers Union coop.
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Farmer with Straw Hat

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Description: An unidentified farmer wearing overalls and a straw hat standing in a field.
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Working Men Walking Past a Building

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Description: Two men wearing hats, one of whom is carrying a bucket and a tool, walking across the street from a large building.
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Feeding Milk to a Calf

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Description: A farming man and woman holding a horse and feeding milk to a baby cow.
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Farmer with Milk Can in Wheelbarrow

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Description: A farmer hauling a milk can on a wheelbarrow.

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