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| 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: | 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. ... |
| Date: | 05 15 1931 |
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| Description: | A streetcar was knocked off the tracks in an accident with an automobile at the corner of Mills and Drake Streets. |
| 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 27 1930 |
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| Description: | The corner of State Street and Capitol Square from the roof of the Leath Furniture Store, with a view of the 100 block of State Street, the Wisconsin State... |
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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. |
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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: | 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. |
| 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: | 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: | 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... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 07 30 1918 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Waldheim furniture building and surrounding commercial area on N. Plankinton Avenue, north of W. Wisconsin Avenue. The Waldheim Furnit... |
| 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: | Germania Building with streetcars, automobiles, and pedestrians on the south side of W. Wells Street between N. Plankinton Avenue and N. 2nd Street. |
| 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... |
| Date: | 01 14 1924 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Caswell Block commercial district at the northwest corner of W. Wisconsin Avenue and N. Plankinton Avenue. Pedestrians are on the side... |
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