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Fauerbach Brewery Tavern

Date: 04 07 1933
Description: Slightly elevated view of crowd in the Fauerbach Brewery tavern at 651 Williamson Street, with men and women drinking and toasting and celebrating the end ...
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Dance Hall Wine Room

Date: 01 01 1914
Description: People sitting at a table in a dance hall wine room at 2:00 a.m.
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Moonlight Outing Club

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

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Description: People sitting at tables, drinking and talking. A large banner with a picture of Thaddeus Kosciuszko hangs on the wall.
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Temperance Rebus

Date: 1885
Description: Rebus from the National Temperance Advocate, 1884-1886 p.207. Solution is: "What harm can there be in a glass of beer? None, my man, in one or two. 'Tis...
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Prohibition vs. License

Date: 1884
Description: Two drawings illustrating a hyperbolic comparison between a society which permits drinking of alcoholic beverages and one that does not.
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Two Men Smoking

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Description: Studio portrait of two standing man smoking cigars posing in front of a painted backdrop. One man is pouring liquid into a glass. Both men are wearing hats...
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Men with Beer Bottles

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Description: Studio portrait of four men in hats, suit jackets, vests, and trousers. Two men are standing and two sitting around a small table, drinking from glasses fi...
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Three Men Drinking Beer

Date: 1900
Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of three unidentified white men dressed in bib overalls. One man is sitting in the center betwee...
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Four Soldiers Playing Cards

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Description: Studio portrait of four soldiers lying on the ground by a box that says, "Hard Tack U.S.," playing cards and drinking. They are posing in front of a painte...
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Four Soliders Playing Cards

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Description: Studio portrait of four soldiers kneeling around a box that says, "Hard Tack U.S.," playing cards and drinking. They are posing in front of a painted backd...
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Studio Portrait of Two Lumberjacks

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Description: A studio portrait of two men, probably lumberjacks, that are posed playing cards, drinking, and smoking in front of a painted backdrop. The two men are sit...
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Studio Portrait of Two Lumberjacks Drinking

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Description: Two unidentified white men, dressed as lumberjacks, sit on a wood log in Van Schaick's studio, drinking, smoking and playing cards, with a saw and an axe n...
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Portrait of Four Ho-Chunk Men from the Greencrow Family

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Description: Studio portrait of four Ho-Chunk men posing sitting in front of a painted backdrop. They are sitting around a table on which is sitting two packages wrappe...
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Breaking Up a Fake Fight

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Description: Angie Vail and Alice Bedard pose in an attempt to break up a staged fight between Robert Vail and Sprague Vonier, while Harold Gauer lies on the ground und...
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Minors in a Saloon Dance Hall

Date: 05 03 1914
Description: A group of people, including minors, in a saloon dance hall at 2 a.m. in Milwaukee. The dance hall, Vizey's Hall, was on 8th Street and Walnut. Liquor was ...
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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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Dancing Around Whiskey Bottle

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Description: A couple dances behind an oversized cut-out of a bottle of Seagrams Whiskey, with other people seated around them. Some are wearing fake eyes.
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Festival Audience near Stage at Night

Date: 04 25 1970
Description: Part of the Sound Storm music festival audience as seen from the front of the stage at night. A number of people in the crowd are wrapped in blankets.
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Bar Room at Hotel Astor

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Description: Interior of the bar room at Hotel Astor, built in 1904. Waiters, bartenders, and patrons stand around the bar, decorated in the Old World style.

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