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| 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: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of wagons hauling coal from the Milwaukee Western Fuel Company holding up street car traffic on a busy Milwaukee street. |
| 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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | Well-dressed pedestrians walking in downtown Milwaukee. |
| Date: | 09 19 1915 |
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| Description: | Milwaukee Auditorium at N. 6th Street and W. Kilbourn Avenue. |
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| Description: | Court of Honor, W. Wisconsin Avenue, looking west from N. 9th Street. The Midsummer Festival monument (with eagle) and Gesu Church steeples are on the left... |
| Date: | 03 29 1913 |
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| Description: | East Wisconsin Avenue commercial district looking west from V. Van Buren Street. Landmarks left to right: Federal Building, Northwestern National Insurance... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from Wisconsin River looking east. The Pabst Building is on the northwest corner of N. Water Street and E. Wisconsin Avenue with the Mack bui... |
| Date: | 02 26 1919 |
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| Description: | The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance home office on the northeast corner of E. Wisconsin Avenue and N. Van Buren Street. |
| Date: | 03 19 1914 |
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| Description: | Commercial district looking towards East Wisconsin Avenue from the roof of the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurace home office at Van Buren Street. The Feder... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Majestic Theater Vaudeville building, with pedestrians on the street, along with a streetcar and horse-drawn vehicles. The Schlitz Hotel i... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking west on W. National Avenue from about S. 6th Street, towards a parade marching down National Avenue with a crowd of people watching, ... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Pabst Theater Building at E. Wells and N. Water Street. The Hotel Blatz is on the left. |
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| Description: | Elevated view southeast from the courthouse at E. Kilbourn Avenue and N. Jackson Street. The Northwestern Mutual home office building and Chicago and North... |
| Date: | 06 19 1909 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Caswell Block building at W. Wisconsin and N. Plankinton Avenues. |
| Date: | 04 29 1921 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of City Hall at intersection bustling with pedestrians, streetcars, and parked automobiles. |
| Date: | 06 01 1923 |
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| Description: | Elevated view east from N. Plankinton Avenue, W. Wisconsin Avenue is bustling with automobiles, pedestrians, a cable car, and a double-decker bus. Landmark... |
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