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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A steam fire engine of Milwaukee's Fire Company #2 drawn by three white horses racing to a fire. Prior motor driven fire equipment was a greater danger tha... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | First electric street railway service in Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Elevated view down Wisconsin Avenue looking west, with the RKO Riverside Theatre on the right, and a large Christmas sign on the corner of a building on th... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Pinckney Street view with the edge of the Capitol grounds on the right. A streetcar is in the center of the street. Storefronts with their awnings over the... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a streetcar going down North Main Street. Raiche Drugstore sits on the right corner. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View of a variety of storefronts in bustling downtown. On the left side of the street is Berman's, Cremer's Jewelers, Liggett's Drugs, and Kinney's Shoes. ... |
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| Description: | Exterior view of a laundry building at the Indian Industrial School. An Indian School cable car is next to the building. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | The first electric street railway in Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of downtown Hancock with a streetcar driving down the street and people walking on the sidewalk and crossing the street. A streetcar has been superimp... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Canal Street scene. Automobiles, streetcars and pedestrians are moving along the busy street. Store sign reads: "Stein-Block LAZARD'S Smar... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | View down Canal Street in New Orleans. View is toward the lake from Camp/Chartres Streets. The first building on the right reads "May's Drug Store". The tw... |
| Date: | 01 30 1908 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the celebration welcoming the first streetcar into Watertown. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Hotel Madison, on the north corner of Capitol Square with a Madison Traction Company car in the foreground. |
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| Description: | Main Street, south. View includes cable car on track, businesses, a post office, and five people standing on the sidewalks lining street. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View down center of a street. Caption reads: "Clean, Wide, Business Streets Greet You in Oshkosh". On the left side of the street is a large clock on the s... |
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| Description: | Stereograph view toward West Washington Avenue from the Wisconsin State Capitol during the construction of the fourth capitol building. Features the Capito... |
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| Description: | Photograph of an illustration. The image is of Gimbels Department Store at the corner of W. Wisconsin and N. Plankinton Avenues. Possibly a drawing of a pl... |
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| Description: | A T.M.E.R. and L Company streetcar is stopped on Washington Avenue, with the two streetcar operators aboard. The advertisement on the streetcar reads, "190... |
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| Description: | Milwaukee streetcar and its passengers. Original Falk caption reads, "Photos borrowed from Milwaukee County Transport for use in brochure 850801. Originals... |
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| Description: | A woman carefully steps off a Milwaukee streetcar. Original Falk caption reads, "Photos borrowed from Milwaukee County Transport for use in brochure 850801... |
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