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| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with a family and their dog preparing for their descent down the hill on a toboggan. From left to right, Gene Anderson (my uncle), Betsy Marqu... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Alice in Dairyland, Doris Olsen, holds a cream puff, always a favorite Wisconsin State Fair treat, as she talks with two bakers at the fair. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | The pit crew works on #26, a Ford Fairlane, during an automobile race at the Wisconsin State Fairgrounds. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of an automobile race at the state fairgrounds, with the crowd in the foreground. Cars are parked in the infield. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Automobiles drive past the grandstand at the Wisconsin State Fairgrounds as they prepare for the beginning of the race. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Passers-by help move a disabled vehicle after an automobile accident on Wisconsin Avenue. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | A monument to Milwaukeeans killed in the Second World War and the Korean Conflict. Night view, with building lit internally. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of monument to Milwaukeeans killed in the Second World War and the Korean Conflict. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Exterior of building, which was first occupied in June 1885. It stood at the corner of 18th and Wells Streets. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Flora van Brink Hony Bader (nee Melkman) in backyard of her home on Farwell Avenue. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Woman in polka dot dress is looking on as a service station worker checks the oil in her car. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking on downtown street with traffic, in winter. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Uniformed boys' bugle corps passing along a street in a parade. A group of people watch from the sidewalk across the street. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | James C. Springer of Cutler-Hammer Manufacturing Co. surrounded by members of the Milwaukee chapter of the National Secretaries' Association who had electe... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Winter scene at Brown Deer Park of snow-covered pine trees, with a view of a building in the distance between the trees. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | A stone barn, tree and another building. The remains of a ladder is leaning against the foundation of the barn. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | View along a rocky shoreline lined with trees. The stump of a tree is in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | A man carrying an umbrella is gazing into the display window of Levinger's Antique Shop, Jefferson and East Main Street. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | A tense moment in a night baseball game played at the Dorothy Enderis Playground. Two men are standing and watching the game through the chain link fence. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Snow is mounded on top of pilings on the edge of the Milwaukee River. |
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