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: | 1886 |
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Description: | First electric street railway service in Wisconsin. |
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: | Elevated view of a streetcar going down North Main Street. Raiche Drugstore sits on the right corner. |
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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: | 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... |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | An engraving of an elevated view of the Leinenkugel brewery, est. 1867, located at 5 Jefferson Avenue. |
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. |
Date: | 04 29 1921 |
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Description: | Elevated view of City Hall at intersection bustling with pedestrians, streetcars, and parked automobiles. |
Date: | 09 12 1913 |
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Description: | Looking south on N. Plankinton Avenue and N. 3rd Street, with the The Second Ward Savings Bank (now the Milwaukee County Historical Society) in the triangl... |
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Description: | Elevated view of Espenhain's department store located on the northwest corner of N. 4th Street and W. Wisconsin Avenue. Pedestrians, horse-drawn vehicles, ... |
Date: | 07 31 1918 |
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Description: | Elevated view looking north on N. 3rd Street from W. Wisconsin Avenue towards the commercial district surrounding the Miller Hotel and Theater. There are s... |
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Description: | Elevated view of E. Wisconsin Avenue looking west from the roof of the Northwestern Mutual home office at the corner of Van Buren. The major landmark is th... |
Date: | 08 31 1910 |
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Description: | Looking northwest on Fond du Lac Avenue from W. Walnut Street. In the center is a building with awning that reads: "1220 Zautcke Bros." Streetcars, pedestr... |
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Description: | Looking south on N. 3rd Street from W. North Avenue. Bauch goods and other unidentified businesses visible on 3rd Street. There are automobiles and streetc... |
Date: | 05 23 1914 |
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Description: | Elevated view looking north on N. Water Street from W. St. Paul Avenue. City Hall is in the left background. |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | Several pedestrians cross a city street on a rainy day. |
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