Date: | 1912 |
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Description: | Street cars and busy pedestrian traffic mingle in this view of the 200 West Water Street block in downtown Milwaukee. |
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: | 1888 |
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Description: | Exterior of Schlitz Brewing Company with two men and a boy in suits and hats in the foreground. |
Date: | 1885 |
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Description: | Elevated view of West Water Street from Grand Avenue of horse-drawn vehicles, pedestrians, buildings, storefronts and power lines. |
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: | 1899 |
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Description: | Group of people posing on a trolley car, which is pulling a flat car loaded with a McCormick grain binder and mower as part of an event culminating the "Cr... |
Date: | 01 06 1931 |
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Description: | A man stands at a safety zone in the middle of West Mifflin Street between lanes of traffic at the corner of State Street and N. Carroll Street, waiting to... |
Date: | 09 06 1930 |
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Description: | Banners and caricatures of the Marx Brothers adorn a streetcar advertising the film "Animal Crackers" at the RKO Capitol Theatre. |
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Description: | A long string of circus elephants parades single file down a metropolitan street lined on both sides by huge crowds of people. |
Date: | 1901 |
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Description: | A man tips his hat to a passing woman as horse-drawn carts and pedestrians navigate through the dirt and mud of Milwaukee streets, thereby illustrating tha... |
Date: | 06 1947 |
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Description: | A family boarding a route #40 streetcar. A sign on the front of the car advertises midget auto racing at the State Fair grounds; the second urges people to... |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Elevated view of busy street scene in downtown Milwaukee at the turn of the century showing a trolley, horse-drawn vehicles and pedestrians near an interse... |
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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: | 01 30 1908 |
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Description: | Elevated view of the celebration welcoming the first streetcar into Watertown. |
Date: | 1940 |
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Description: | 1100 block of South Sixteenth Street with storefronts and automobile traffic. Cable car tracks run down the middle of the street. |
Date: | 1941 |
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Description: | Automobile traffic, with a street railroad car in the background, on a rainy day. |
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Description: | Well-dressed pedestrians walking in downtown Milwaukee. |
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