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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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | 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... |
| Date: | 09 06 1930 |
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| Description: | Streetcar advertising the Marx Brothers in "Animal Crackers" at the RKO Capitol Theatre. |
| 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. |
| 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... |
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| Description: | View down snow-covered streetcar tracks towards a streetcar traveling up an unidentified residential street in Milwaukee. |
| Date: | 09 20 1953 |
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| Description: | A posed photograph taken for the Milwaukee & Suburban Transport Corp. to mark the substitution of buses for streetcars on the West Burnham Street line. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | The first electric street railway in Wisconsin. |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking north at Washington Street with cable cars. Caption reads: "Washington Street, Looking North, Green Bay, Wis." |
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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... |
| 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: | 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... |
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