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Bootleg Days

Date: 08 23 1933
Description: Elevated view of six customers celebrating Bootleg Days at Arthur Janik's tavern "The Balcony Inn" at Lincoln and 33rd Streets. Arthur Janik was the propri...
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Moonlight Outing Club

Date: 07 04 1913
Description: Group of people known as the "Moonlight Outing Club" at Muskego Lake.
Postcard

Farmworkers Taking a Break

Date: 1913
Description: Group of farm workers, men and women, posing in a field, holding various beverages. One man has his arm over a barrel on a stand in the center. In the back...
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Young America, North and South

Date: 1860
Description: Envelope compares a young man of the North, on the left, to a young man of the South, on the right. The young Northern man is working with an older man on ...
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Smoking Near Gasoline

Date: 06 1927
Description: A man is using a funnel to siphon gasoline from a tank into a pail while smoking a pipe. The photograph was staged on the K. Legge Memorial Farm to demonst...
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Newspaper Speakeasy

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Description: A keg of Prohibition Era beer in the darkroom of the "Milwaukee Sentinel" being enjoyed by newspapermen: (left to right) Red Thisted, Eddie Oroth, Guy Hels...
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T. Knapstein & Co. Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of T. Knapstein & Company, proprietors of the New London Brewery. On the left is a rectangular image with a decorative border surrounding a man ...
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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Men with Beer Keg

Date: 1910
Description: Six men posed around a beer keg, holding glasses of beer. One man has a deck of cards.
Print

Kellermeister Beer, Label

Date: 1934
Description: Label submitted to the state of Wisconsin for trademark registration. Kellermeister Beer, made by the Oconomowoc Brewing Company. Includes an image of a Ge...
Print

German Style Beer, Label

Date: 1933
Description: Label submitted to the State of Wisconsin for trademark registration. "German Style Beer, Peter Bub Brewery." Pictured on the label are a group of gnomes d...
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Logging Camp

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Description: Elevated view of men posed standing in a snow-covered logging camp. One man is holding a cat, and there is a dog standing nearby. The photographers wagon i...
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Group of Men Posed at Construction Site

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Description: Men posed standing at the construction site. They are probably laying the foundation of a building. A small wooden building in the background has a poster ...
Photograph

Milwaukee Grain Exchange New Year's Greeting

Date: 1929
Description: Group portrait of three men seated near beer casks, each holding a small glass. One man wears a funnel as a hat. The photograph is inscribed with the toast...
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Men at Joe Levine's Camp #4

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Description: A group portrait of the men at Joe Levine's camp no. 4. Included in the portrait are a dog, oxen, horses and a dead deer.
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Frame 27: Integrated Canvassing

Date: 1964
Description: Two women stand on the porch of a home. Three men, probably Freedom Summer volunteers, are talking to them.
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Children on Porch, Phelan's Quarters

Date: 1966
Description: A group of children, several holding balloons, gather on the porch of a building near a debris-scattered yard.

“Row upon row of dilapidated buildings, th...

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Children near Ditch, Phelan's Quarters

Date: 1966
Description: Two children look towards the photographer by a drainage ditch with buildings on all sides. Laundry hangs from clotheslines above.

“Row upon row of dilap...

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Girl at Water Hydrant, Phelan's Quarters

Date: 1966
Description: A girl fills a bucket at a water hydrant near a drainage ditch. Buildings are on either side, and laundry hangs from clotheslines above.

“Row upon row o...

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Farmworkers Taking a Break

Date: 1913
Description: Group of farm workers, men and women, posed in a field, holding various beverages. One man has his arm over a barrel on a stand in the center. In the backg...

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