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Construction near City Hall

Date: 1911
Description: East Water Street at Wisconsin Avenue. City Hall is in the background. At the left is the Waldheim and Company Department Store of 407-411 East Water Stree...
Postcard

Wisconsin Street

Date: 1911
Description: View of pedestrians and streetcar along Wisconsin Street. Caption reads: "Wisconsin Street, looking East from Grand Ave. Milwaukee, Wis."
Postcard

Life-Saving Station and Garbage Crematory

Date: 1911
Description: View across water toward several buildings on shoreline, two with large smokestacks. A man is standing on the shore, and two people are in a boat on the ri...
Photograph

The Milwaukee Sentinel Building

Date: 1911
Description: 89-93 Mason Street. The ten-story Sentinel building stands next to several smaller buildings and an alleyway. The name is on the building over the top floo...
Postcard

Protestant Home for the Aged

Date: 1911
Description: Four-story extended building. A woman with an umbrella is near the left entrance, and a man is walking across the raised lawn near the center right. Captio...
Photograph

St. Mary's Hospital

Date: 1911
Description: End of wing on left is circular. Trees are in front of hospital in a small park area.
Photograph

Group of Men with Early Automobile

Date: 1911
Description: Crowd of men gathered around a man sitting in an early automobile with exposed wheels, engine, and steering wheel. The side of the automobile reads: "King ...
Photograph

Women Pedestrians

Date: 1911
Description: Three women in large hats walking away from two streetcars on a windy day. Other men and women are standing in the background. One of the streetcars has a ...
Photograph

Water Tank at Milwaukee Works

Date: 1911
Description: Two men pose on a water tank on top of Building #43 at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works factory, while another man hoists building materials from ...
Photograph

Automatic Machining Room at Milwaukee Works

Date: 1911
Description: Interior view of the automatic machining department room in International Harvester's Milwaukee Works factory. Large windows line the walls. The machining ...
Photograph

Milwaukee Works Machine Shop

Date: 1911
Description: Construction crews erecting a six-story machine shop at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works factory. Men are working on the ground and on an exposed ...
Photograph

Ground Clearing at Milwaukee Works

Date: 1911
Description: Elevated view of a cleared section of land for a six-story machine shop at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works factory. Other industrial buildings an...
Photograph

Allis Chalmers Factory

Date: 1911
Description: Interior elevated view of an Allis Chalmers factory. Men are posing on the factory floor.
Map or Atlas

Map of the City of Milwaukee

Date: 1911
Description: This map shows ward numbers, streets, railroads, electric car lines, parks, steam railways, section numbers, Lake Michigan and one mile concentric circles ...
Photograph

Federal Rubber Company

Date: 1911
Description: A water tower and two brick chimneys rise above the buildings of the Federal Rubber Company. These include a three-story brick building with large windows,...
Photograph

Federal Rubber Company

Date: 1911
Description: A large sign mounted on a brick factory building identifies the Federal Rubber Company. A second building, similar in size, is to the left, and there is a ...
Postcard

West House, Milwaukee Sanitarium

Date: 1911
Description: Text on front reads: "West House, Milwaukee Sanitarium, Wauwatosa, Wis. A three-story brick building at the Milwaukee Sanitarium, a privately held institut...

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