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Bird's-Eye View of Milwaukee

Date: 1853
Description: Bird's-eye map of Milwaukee looking east toward Lake Michigan from a bluff, long since graded into a slope, at about 6th Street between Wisconsin Avenue an...
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Bird's-Eye View of Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Date: 1854
Description: Bird's-eye view of Milwaukee looking east toward Lake Michigan from a bluff, long since graded into a slope, at about 6th Street between Wisconsin Avenue a...
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Bird's-Eye View of Milwaukee in 1853

Date: 1937
Description: Bird's-eye view of Milwaukee in 1853 details building features and city layout from southwest. Important buildings are numbered in a silhouette drawing bel...
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Fairgrounds at Milwaukee

Date: 1859
Description: Elevated view of the fairgrounds in Milwaukee, the year when Abraham Lincoln spoke. The fairgrounds were located at the Brockway Grounds near Twelfth and S...
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Milwaukee County Buildings

Date: 1870
Description: Old Milwaukee County Court House and adjoining buildings as they appeared from 1836 to 1870. Scene also shows pedestrians and horse-drawn vehicles.
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Schlitz Palm Garden

Date: 07 03 1886
Description: An interior view of the Schlitz Palm Garden, which was located on North 3rd Street, south of West Wisconsin Avenue. This image includes a drawing of a wait...
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American House

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Description: Building with three levels, a porch and two balconies across the front of the house, a roof, and a man with a telescope in a belvedere in the center of the...
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Milwaukee Auditorium

Date: 1910
Description: Advertisement for Auditorium with capacity information (total 15,700), purposes (Exhibitions, Conventions, Meetings, Lectures, Concerts, Dances, Circus, et...
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Milwaukee Auditorium

Date: 1910
Description: Main hall with description of location. Hall was 225 feet long, 100 feet wide and 65 feet high. Also gives basement size under main hall (36,000 square f...
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Bijou Opera House

Date: 1889
Description: Souvenir Booklet for the opening night of August 19. Interior view showing part of the stage, floor seating, stairs, and the three levels of balcony seati...
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Milwaukee County Court House

Date: 1870
Description: Slightly elevated view at an angle towards the left and front of the courthouse. A large statue is on top of the main dome. The area around the courthouse ...
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Cottage Inn

Date: 1835
Description: Two-story home with sloping roof. One man is whipping a team of eight cattle while another man drives the plow behind them. To the left stands a man near a...
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"Hazelwood"

Date: 1894
Description: The residence of John Crapser Coleman. As remodeled in 1870; copy of photograph taken in 1894. House is in right middle ground, with a yard and trees. A ...
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Notre Dame Convent

Date: 1871
Description: The building has a fence around it and the yard is filled with trees. Pedestrians are in the road, as well as a man riding a horse.
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National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers

Date: 1867
Description: E.T. Mix designed the original building of the National Soldiers Home in 1867. At the time the structure was dedicated on 28 September 1867, the wings had ...
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Prentiss Residence

Date: 1840
Description: Home of William Augustus Prentiss, built in 1836 and burned in 1845. Small two-story house. Four people are standing around the house.
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St. Josaphat Basilica

Date: 1941
Description: Elevated view of west side of Basilica, with the apse on the left.
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City View over Rooftops

Date: 1872
Description: Elevated view over residential area, with several churches in the background.
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Milwaukee Downer College Library

Date: 02 1908
Description: Interior view of the Greene Memorial Library of Milwaukee-Downer College (now the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee). The image is part of a 14-page pamphl...
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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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