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| 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: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Elevated view. As part of Boy Scout Day at the Wisconsin State Fair, a contingent of scout flag bearers marches over the Wisconsin Avenue Bridge over the M... |
| Date: | 10 01 1932 |
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| Description: | Franklin D. Roosevelt campaigning for the presidency in Milwaukee in 1932. FDR is riding in a flag-draped open car and escorted by police on motorcycles. |
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| Description: | "James E. McAlpine" in tow of tug "Conrad Starke" on Milwaukee River. There is an open drawbridge in the background. |
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| Description: | Blimp (dirigible) flying over downtown buildings. There are two smokestacks in the foreground, and on the right, a sign, from the back, for "The Electric C... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Striking workers from the local 18 of United Gas Coke and Chemical Workers, C.I.O. picketing on a wide downtown sidewalk. The men are walking in a circle h... |
| Date: | 07 13 1946 |
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| Description: | A United Public Workers parade/demonstration from an adjacent sidewalk. The line of participants including a horse-drawn wagon stretches into the distance.... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Elevated night view of the eight story Germania Building, which is illuminated with a multitude of individual electric light bulbs outlining the windows an... |
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