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Milwaukee Light Guard

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Description: Illustration of the Milwaukee Light Guard depicting four men, including captain J.C. Starkweather. This is a cover from sheet music "Milwaukee Light Guard ...
Poster

Milwaukee Public School Rules

Date: 1846
Description: "Rules to be observed by the pupils of public schools of Milwaukee."
Photograph

Naturalization

Date: 09 18 1984
Description: Jennie Youn Haeng Seider, 4, of Milwaukee, used her father Jeffrey Seider's back to display her new certificate of naturalization.
Photograph

Mr. Jens with Tractor Orders

Date: 1922
Description: Mr. Jens, most likely an International Harvester employee (possibly a dealer) poses for a portrait holding a stack of tractor orders.
Photograph

Main Reducer and Incher

Date: 07 1977
Description: Duane Hanson and Norbert Winski attend to a large reducer and incher. This unit was purchased by Allis Chalmers and used by the Cleveland Cliffs Iron Compa...
Document

Milwaukee House Stationery

Date: 1857
Description: Letter on stationery featuring an engraving of an exterior view of the Milwaukee House showing horse-drawn vehicles and people standing on the sidewalk in ...
Photograph

Fred Haney Holding His Contract

Date: 10 20 1957
Description: Portrait of Milwaukee Braves manager Fred Haney holding his new contract. Under his management In 1957, with a lineup that included future Baseball Hall...
Photograph

P&H Accounting Office

Date: 08 12 1913
Description: Two men working a desks in the Pawling & Harnischfeger accounting office. There are photographs on the wall, including a crane, the P&H plant, and a St. Lo...
Photograph

P&H Advertising Room

Date: 08 15 1913
Description: Men at desks in the Pawling & Harnischfeger advertising department. Large windows on left look out towards another building, and men on equipment can be se...
Photograph

P&H Shop Office

Date: 08 15 1913
Description: Men working at desks at the Pawling & Harnischfeger shop office. A row of windows is on the left, and another building can be seen through an open window.
Photograph

Benjamin Heinemann

Date: 09 24 1913
Description: Three-quarter length seated studio portrait of Benjamin Heinemann, Wausau lumberman and banker. He has papers in his lap, and holds a pair of eyeglasses an...
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Check for J. Alder Ellis

Date: 12 30 1856
Description: A Marshall & Isley, Bankers, check in the amount of $12,500.00 written to J. Alder Ellis from Samuel Marshall.
Photograph

Milt Polland at Desk

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Description: Milt Polland wearing eyeglasses and a bow tie sits at a cluttered desk with framed photographs visible on the wall in the background. Gauer worked for Poll...
Photograph

"Joe Must Go" Petition Signing

Date: 1954
Description: Members of United Packinghouse Workers Local 40 signing a "Joe Must Go" petition to recall Wisconsin's Senator Joseph R. McCarthy.
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Cudahy Brothers Co. Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Cudahy Brothers Company, a meat packer from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with a color image of a package of meat hanging from a hook on a wall, ...
Print

Northwestern Lithographing Co. Memohead

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Description: Memohead of the Northwestern Lithographing Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, art lithographers, publishers, and engravers, with a standing female figure in ...
Photograph

Legal Counsel before WERC Hearing

Date: 1967
Description: Jesus Salas, left, is leader of Obreros Unidos (United Workers), Wisconsin's migrant farm workers' union. In the center, legal counsel David Loeffler and o...
Photograph

The History of Wisconsin Poster

Date: 1893
Description: John Fawcett Tyrrell, handwriting expert and documents examiner of Milwaukee, standing at left of an illuminated poster, ten feet high, entitled "The Histo...
Document

Toechter Institut

Date: 1864
Description: Information about the Toechter Institut in Milwaukee.
Photograph

Vel Phillips at Common Council Meeting

Date: 1971
Description: View across table towards Vel Phillips seated with other unidentified men, possibly other common council members. Sheets of paper are scattered on the tabl...

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