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1100 Block of South 16th Street

Date: 1940
Description: 1100 block of South Sixteenth Street with storefronts and automobile traffic. Cable car tracks run down the middle of the street.
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Quisling Towers Apartments

Date: 1940
Description: View of the Quisling Towers Apartment building, 1 East Gilman Street at the corner of Wisconsin Avenue. Built in the Art Moderne style by the Quisling bro...
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Buildings Along Milwaukee River

Date: 1940
Description: View from the Wisconsin Avenue Bridge. A building on the left has a large sign for Gimbel's on its roof. Beyond the river in the background are two large s...
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Milwaukee River

Date: 1940
Description: A view north of Wells Street with a bridge on the right. Two large smokestacks, and a tall building with a clock break up the skyline. On the left is a bil...
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Red Arrow Park

Date: 1940
Description: Swimming area with children and adults enjoying the weather, with the Tower Hotel is in the background.
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City Street

Date: 1940
Description: Corner of Second and National Avenue. Cars are lined up on both sides of the street in front of storefronts.
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Railroad Yards

Date: 1940
Description: Elevated view of railroad yards with trains sitting on many of the tracks, though other tracks are sitting empty. Steam is rising from trains in the backgr...
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Railroad Yards

Date: 1940
Description: Elevated view of railroad yards with trains sitting on many of the tracks, with other tracks sitting empty. Steam is rising from trains in the background, ...
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Journalism House

Date: 1940
Description: View from street of the porch of the house at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A group of women are gathered on the fron porch. Snow covers the ground.
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Railroad Yard at Allis-Chalmers

Date: 1940
Description: Elevated view of Allis-Chalmers plant showing several trains on the tracks next to a large industrial building. The steam engine tender in front of the loc...
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Two Children on Sled

Date: 1940
Description: Winter scene with two children on sled in the snow, possibly on Regent Street, Madison, Wisconsin. In the background is a house and yard.
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Berlin Reporter

Date: 1940
Description: Associated Press journalist Alvin Steinkopf, formerly of Milwaukee, photographed on the streets of Berlin. Steinkopf was in Berlin until after Pearl Harbor...
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International D-2 and D-3 Truck Brochure

Date: 1940
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for International D-2 and D-3 trucks. Original caption reads: "International Models D-2 and D-3 for economical light deliv...
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Street Car in Krakow

Date: 1940
Description: A street car in Krakow photographed by American journalist Alvin Steinkopf while on a tour of German-occupied Poland. He labeled it in his scrapbook."Jews ...
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Warsaw Street Scene

Date: 1940
Description: Vendor selling balloons near the central railroad station in Warsaw, Poland, about one year after the German invasion.
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Ghetto Street Scene

Date: 1940
Description: Street scene in the Jewish ghetto in Szydlowiec, Poland, photographed by American journalist Alvin Steinkopf, about one year after the German invasion.
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Quarantine Fence

Date: 1940
Description: A barbed wire fence in the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw constructed to quarantine people infected with lice. At this point the wall around the entire ghetto had...
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Krakow

Date: 1940
Description: The Market Hall and Square in Krakow, Poland, about a year after the German invasion.
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Sarajevo Street Scene

Date: 1940
Description: A street scene with Sarajevo.
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Sarajevo Street Scene

Date: 1940
Description: A wide load on a Sarajevo street, about a year before the Kingdom of Yugoslavia fell to the Germans.

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