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| Date: | 08 23 1933 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of six customers celebrating Bootleg Days at Arthur Janik's tavern "The Balcony Inn" at Lincoln and 33rd Streets. Arthur Janik was the propri... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | A Wisconsin family inside their new bomb shelter. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of workers on the bottling line at the Schlitz Brewery. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Sample tables in the Grain Exchange Room of the Chamber of Commerce Building. The Milwaukee Grain Exchange was a pioneer in grain trading with their develo... |
| Date: | 11 22 1955 |
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| Description: | Thomas Constable (left) and Walter Medenski (right), pose in front of canned food gathered by pupils at the Center Street school for the Salvation Army's T... |
| Date: | 03 20 1965 |
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| Description: | Several men engaged in a serious card game at the Milwaukee Municipal Social Center, one of several centers devoted to social and recreational programs for... |
| Date: | 05 11 1955 |
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| Description: | Chalk lines in the foreground mark the spot where White Elephant Bar owner was shot. Police and detectives conferred in the background after assembling inv... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Cheesemaker standing on ladder putting cheese on storage shelf, along with rows of other cheeses. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Diesel engine assembly line at Milwaukee Works. The factory was owned by the Milwaukee Harvester Company until 1902. |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | A father is holding his young son in his arms. |
| Date: | 03 1909 |
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| Description: | A young boy and girl sitting on an iron bedstead in the corner of their unkempt bedroom. |
| Date: | 02 20 1954 |
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| Description: | Zoo director George Speidel and members of the Milwaukee County Zoological society talking over plans for the new zoo while looking at a tentative model fo... |
| Date: | 11 28 1981 |
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| Description: | Veterinarians examining Samson, the Milwaukee Zoo's star 32-year-old gorilla, after attempting to revive him after he had collapsed while feeding in the zo... |
| Date: | 12 13 1985 |
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| Description: | Overhead view of Rhudra, an Indian rhinoceros, receiving surgery for a non-healing wound on the sole of his right, rear foot at the Milwaukee County Zoo. T... |
| Date: | 05 18 1919 |
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| Description: | Scene from Poale Zion Chasidim, an Americanization pageant held in the Milwaukee auditorium to welcome Milwaukee's new citizens. |
| Date: | 11 26 1940 |
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| Description: | A trio of druggists busy themselves in the laboratory with compounding materials for patient prescriptions. The pharmacists were employed with "The Pharmac... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Close-up of fans shouting at a Milwaukee Braves baseball game. |
| Date: | 02 14 1985 |
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| Description: | A display of fruit and vegetables in the East Side Foods Sentry store. |
| Date: | 01 27 1956 |
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| Description: | Child in a shopping cart with a frozen Armour smoked ham. |
| Date: | 01 01 1914 |
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| Description: | People sitting at a table in a dance hall wine room at 2:00 a.m. |
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