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High Life in Milwaukee

Date: 1911
Description: Humorous cartoon postcard showing a man flying an airplane constructed primarily of beer bottles, pretzels and sausages, and powered by Miller beer over th...
Postcard

Here's Thinking of You! In Milwaukee

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Description: Milwaukee postcard showing a glass of beer, a pretzel, a cow and a milk maid. The card also features a short verse about Milwaukee's congeniality: "A cool ...
Photograph

Group Photo of Harold Gauer's Friends

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Description: Large group of Harold Gauer's friends. In the front row from left to right are Bob Vail, Marion Bloch, Mary Jo Vonier, Angie Vail, an unidentified woman, a...
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Head Quarters 18th Regiment Wisconsin Volunteers, Camp Trowbridge, Milwaukee

Date: 1860
Description: The state seal of Wisconsin appears in the upper left corner. To the right reads: "Head Quarters 18th Reg. Wis. Vol, Camp Trowbridge, Milwaukee" On t...
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Camp Washburn, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Date: 1860
Description: A soldier rides a horse with a military camp in the background. Caption below reads, "CAMP WASHBURN, MILWAUKEE - - WIS." Blue ink on beige envelope, image ...
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Head Quarters, 2nd Regiment Wisconsin Cavalry. Camp Washburn, Milwaukee.

Date: 1860
Description: A cavalry soldier on a horse appears on left, a military camp is seen in the background. To the right in fancy type: "Head Quarters, 2D REGT. WIS. CAVAL...
Photograph

Funny Papers and Alvin Steinkopf

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Description: Still wearing his pajamas, "Milwaukee Sentinel" editor Alvin Steinkopf reads the newspaper. The popular comic strip, "Gasoline Alley," can be seen on the ...
Postcard

One View of Milwaukee

Date: 1909
Description: Depicts an overweight man wearing a bowler hat drinking beer directly from a barrel. In the background beer steins are littering the ground. The caption at...
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"If It's Brewdated-It's Blatz," Beer Label

Date: 04 10 1934
Description: Label submitted to the state of Wisconsin for trademark registration. Brew-Date label for a bottle of Blatz beer. The label features two cartoon gnomes hol...
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Kernel Wheat, Label

Date: 04 23 1934
Description: Label submitted to the State of Wisconsin for trademark registration by the M Carpenter Baking Co. The label is in red and blue, and is for cracked wheat b...
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Mickie Mouse Animal Crackers, Label

Date: 08 16 1934
Description: Label submitted to the State of Wisconsin for trademark registration from the Quality Biscuit Company. Features a cartoon drawing of a mouse holding a micr...
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Souvenir Menu for Dinner for Kletzsch, Ott, and Kremer

Date: 10 08 1914
Description: First and last pages of the souvenir menu for a dinner by Mr. Edward A. Uhrig to Mr. Alvin P. Kletzsch, Mr. Emil H. Ott, and Mr. Waldemar Kremer at Republi...
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Souvenir Menu for Dinner for Kletzsch, Ott, and Kremer

Date: 10 08 1914
Description: Interior pages of the souvenir menu for a dinner given by Mr. Edward A. Uhrig to Mr. Alvin P. Kletzsch, Mr. Emil H. Ott, and Mr. Waldemar Kremer at Republi...
Photograph

Esser Sisters, Julie and Jane

Date: 02 1962
Description: The Esser sisters, Julie and Jane, stand in a crib with their hands on the foot board. A lamb decal decorates the crib.
Postcard

Mader's Famous Restaurant

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Description: The postcard has a drawing of a woman looking through a lorgnette. Text on front reads, in part: "See for yourself, Lady . . . There are persons old enough...
Book or Pamphlet

The Greenfield Trailer Camp Incident — Cover and Back Pages

Date: 1949
Description: Front cover and back pages of brochure. Includes photographs and a political cartoon from the Milwaukee Journal.
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Charles Abresch

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Description: Lithographic caricature of a man holding two vehicles, and surrounded by other vehicles and a factory. He is identified as Charles Abresch, a German immigr...
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Emanuel Adler

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Description: Lithographic caricature of Emanuel D. Adler, a Milwaukee clothing manufacturer. Adler is posing next to a table with cloth stacked on it, in what is identi...
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Samuel D. Adler

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Description: Lithographic caricature of Samuel D. Adler, a clothier and one of four brothers who operated David Adler & Son Co. He is depicted here playing golf.
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Louis Allis

Date: 1901
Description: Caricature of industrialist Louis H. Allis, son of Edward P. Allis. Louis founded the Mechanical Appliance Company in 1901, which manufactured DC motors fo...

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