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| Date: | 10 13 1895 |
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| Description: | Twenty-one photographs of churches, city halls, courthouses, and other buildings and their locations throughout Milwaukee. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Grand Avenue at 4th Street looking east. An electric sign for the Alhambra Theatre is in the center. Pedestrians are crossing the road and are on the sidew... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of a view over rooftops of a neighborhood near Lake Michigan. Shoreline can be seen in the background. |
| Date: | 1868 |
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| Description: | Elevated view over rooftops looking towards Lake Michigan shoreline. Seaman's Furniture and Rooms building is surrounded by other commercial buildings. The... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Stereograph. Winter scene of a residential area, looking down a snowy sidewalk near a retaining wall and a fence in Milwaukee, with a horse-drawn carriage... |
| Date: | 1881 |
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| Description: | Stereograph. Elevated view of rooftops on the west side, with St. Mary's Convent in the background. |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of elevated view looking northwest from Exposition Building. There is a church on a street corner on the left, and the Best Brewing Company in ... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Boats used for fighting fires are docked near a walkway. On the left the walkway is full of men, some gathered near the boats and a fire hose stretched out... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Men pushing and pulling two carts, one with a barrel, around a street corner. |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | A group of men carrying lunch boxes are walking away from a steam engine train, which is near another train and power lines. |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Women of various ages are surrounded by babies and young children, as well as chairs and cribs. Each woman is holding a baby. Cribs are hanging on chains f... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Two men escorting a fashionably dressed woman with a feathered boa obscuring part of her face. People are standing in the background near a train next to t... |
| Date: | 1894 |
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| Description: | People strolling on the midway and stopping to observe the booths and displays. In the background is a large building with flags. |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | A young girl wearing a coat and hat is standing on a scale that is chained to a post near a building. |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Lenore Harrison Cawker holding a parrot on her hand. |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway locomotive no. 40, called the L.B. Rock, at the Chestnut Street yards. The mast of a ship is visible in the background, and ... |
| Date: | 06 10 1880 |
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| Description: | Elevated group portrait of the veterans of the First Wisconsin Calvary. They are standing in rows in the street. Horses with wagons are behind them, and a ... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | A group of soldiers from Company A, 3rd Regiment, take a break to drink inside the walls of Camp Harvey. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Women and children visit soldiers at Camp Harvey. A long building with other people on a long porch is in the background. |
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