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| Date: | 10 05 1912 |
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| Description: | Teddy Tetzlaff drives the Fiat #33 across the finish line. The stands on the right are covered in advertisements. The track later became Burleigh Street go... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | The man in the goggles on the right is Teddy Tetzlaff; possibly at the Vanderbilt Cup Race. The other men are unidentified. In the background is the grands... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Four young women are walking down a city street across cable car tracks wearing coats and very large hats. Two of the women have fur muffs on their hands, ... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Young women carrying purses and wearing very large hats are walking down a sidewalk. A person on the left is holding an umbrella, and one woman is holding ... |
| Date: | 10 17 1944 |
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| Description: | Elevated view across rooftops towards smoke rising from a burning building in the city. The building on the left has a billboard supporting the Packers. A ... |
| Date: | 02 02 1946 |
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| Description: | View across intersection towards a line of people formed down and around a street corner at the Uptown Theatre. The marquee advertises showings of "San Ant... |
| Date: | 10 17 1944 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from a distance of a fire. A large cloud of smoke is billowing out of the burning building and fire fighters are climbing on a ladder. A buil... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | An unidentified man wearing a sandwich board supporting Bronson La Follette for Governor and Gaylord Nelson for United States Senator is seated on a donkey... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | International model "G" truck with an empty bed sits parked along a curb. On the side is written: "Swift & Company." Behind the truck is a line of billboa... |
| Date: | 1990 |
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| Description: | Actor Mark Harmon on the set at Old World Wisconsin. Harmon starred in the lead role in the made-for-TV movie "Dillinger". Cinematographer Donald M. Morgan... |
| Date: | 1990 |
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| Description: | Film crew on street for "Dillinger," a made-for-TV movie shot in Milwaukee's Third Ward. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Outdoor advertising billboard rendered from a photograph of Iva Kearney of Ithaca, Wisconsin, holding a glass of milk in her hand. |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the American Legion Parade in Grant Park(?). The photograph was likely taken from the window of the International Harvester offices on Mic... |
| Date: | 05 05 1926 |
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| Description: | International trucks line the sidewalk in front of the Burlington Farm Machinery Company, an International Harvester dealership. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | An automobile drives down a road near a billboard advertising the Simpson Motor Truck Company, an International truck dealership. The original caption read... |
| Date: | 02 18 1926 |
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| Description: | A man using a McCormick-Deering 10-20 tractor to load snow from a city street into a horse-drawn wagon. A group of men are watching from the sidewalk, and ... |
| Date: | 02 18 1926 |
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| Description: | A man uses a McCormick-Deering 10-20 tractor to load snow from a city street into a horse-drawn wagon while another man looks on. |
| Date: | 02 18 1926 |
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| Description: | Man using a McCormick-Deering 10-20 industrial tractor to load snow into a horse-drawn wagon on a city street. A billboard advertising the "Grizzard System... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | A man stands near an opera house sign, smoking a pipe and looking at his theater ticket. A poster advertises a show by Alicia Markova and Anton Dolin. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Mary Brandel and Edward (E.W.) Brandel wearing bathing suits relax on a beach during a vacation. Chairs and umbrellas are behind them, and in the backgroun... |
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