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Kolmar Laboratories and Northwestern Extract Company

Date: 1924
Description: Kolmar laboratories, a cosmetic manufacturer, is housed in the six-story building with the white facade. Northwestern Extract Company, supplier of beverage...
Photograph

Garbage Disposal Plant

Date: 1924
Description: The smokestack is several inches out of plumb, which was the reason the photographer took the photograph. Located on a waterfront.
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The Milwaukee Journal Building

Date: 1924
Description: The Milwaukee Journal Building located at 734 North 4th Street. To the right of the building in an alley are circulation trucks. Newsboys and customers are...
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The Montgomery Building

Date: 1924
Description: Former home of the Milwaukee Journal newspaper, at the corner of Michigan and Milwaukee Streets. A fire escape goes up the middle of the building on...
Photograph

Twenty-First Street

Date: 1924
Description: Near Chestnut Street. View looking down a wet and icy sidewalk with melting snowbanks. Houses line the street.
Print

Blatz Red Star Ginger Ale, Label

Date: 1924
Description: Label submitted to the state of Wisconsin for trademark registration. Bottle label for Blatz Red Star Ginger Ale. The label features the Blatz logo at the ...
Map or Atlas

Milwaukee Harbor, Wisconsin

Date: 1924
Description: This map shows streets, selected buildings, railroads, railway yards, schools, parks, schools, cemeteries, bays, the Milwaukee River, and Lake Michigan. De...
Photograph

Christmas Tree

Date: 1924
Description: A tall Christmas tree with electric lights is standing in the ornately decorated parlor of the home of Henriette (Mrs. George) Brumder, at the corner of Gr...
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Philip in Bed

Date: 1924
Description: Philip George Brumder, son of Herbert Paul and Margaret Bouer Brumder, resting in a hospital crib holding a stuffed dog and a doll. His cheeks are swollen....
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Tobogganing

Date: 1924
Description: Herbert Paul Brumder is pulling his two sons, Herbert Edmund, center, and Philip George, left, on a toboggan in a snowy, rolling landscape. The two boys ar...
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Dining Room

Date: 1924
Description: A view of the dining room in the George and Henriette Brumder mansion at the corner of Grand (later Wisconsin) Avenue and 18th Street. Sunlight bathes the ...
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Library

Date: 1924
Description: Tall bookcases flanking a large fireplace in the library of the George and Henriette Brumder mansion at the corner of Grand (later Wisconsin) Avenue and 18...
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Music Room

Date: 1924
Description: A sculpted bust of George Brumder (1839-1910) is sitting on a grand piano near a bay window in the Brumder mansion at the corner of Grand (later Wisconsin)...
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Parlor

Date: 1924
Description: A parlor or sitting room, with a view into a small room beyond a doorway, probably in the tower of the George and Henriette Brumder mansion at the corner o...
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Bedroom

Date: 1924
Description: A floor lamp is standing on the left beside a chaise lounge in a bedroom of the George and Henriette Brumder mansion at the corner of Grand (later Wisconsi...
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Stairway

Date: 1924
Description: A view of the carved wooden staircase taken from the second floor landing in the George and Henriette Brumder mansion at the corner of Grand (later Wiscons...
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Bedroom

Date: 1924
Description: A small table with books on the lower shelf is standing in front of the fireplace in a bedroom of the George and Henriette Brumder mansion at the corner of...
Photograph

Christmas Tree

Date: 1924
Description: An electrically lit Christmas tree standing near the bow window in the living room of Herbert and Margaret Brumder, 2030 East Lafayette Place. An abundance...
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Tower Room

Date: 1924
Description: An interior view of the George and Henriette Brumder residence at the corner of Grand (later Wisconsin) Avenue and 18th Street. The view is from a large ro...
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Bedroom

Date: 1924
Description: A view of a bedroom in the George and Henriette Brumder mansion at the corner of Grand (later Wisconsin) Avenue and 18th Street. The bed has a tall carved ...

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