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| Date: | 08 01 1970 |
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| Description: | To escape the heat, teenage girls have a water fight in the backyard pool they built. |
| Date: | 05 19 1887 |
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| Description: | External view of the National Soldiers' Home with a cannon on the lawn in the foreground. |
| Date: | 09 10 1968 |
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| Description: | Elderly women sit around a card table and play cards at a new senior center. |
| Date: | 10 04 1963 |
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| Description: | A man surveys the damage to his car, and the aged tree that toppled onto it. |
| Date: | 05 08 1964 |
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| Description: | A waitress sets restaurant tables in anticipation of evening business. |
| Date: | 05 05 1964 |
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| Description: | A woman wearing an apron preparing a hazelnut torte from a prized recipe. |
| Date: | 11 21 1963 |
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| Description: | A variety of canned and fresh peppers is artfully displayed by the woman who serves them to her family and gives them as gifts. |
| Date: | 09 25 1963 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of two women, one pulling loaves of bread from the oven and the other glazing crusts in the church kitchen. |
| Date: | 10 13 1963 |
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| Description: | A housewife showing off her newly-installed laundry room. |
| Date: | 03 31 1963 |
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| Description: | A model walks down the runway during an Easter dress fashion show. Ticket sales benefitted the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee community center. |
| Date: | 05 01 1963 |
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| Description: | A female student leads a class of fellow students. She is a member of the Future Teachers of America Club. |
| Date: | 05 14 1958 |
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| Description: | Four women playing Mah Jongg, a Chinese game using tiles. |
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| Description: | Tables are set up at a City Hall basement lobby as a venue for public access to the polio vaccine. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a gymnasium that has been converted into a place where citizens can vote on election day. |
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| Description: | Republican Harold Stassen giving a speech on a stage in Milwaukee during his campaign for the Republican nomination. |
| Date: | 08 27 1980 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of a man mowing the lawn at the Veterans' Administration Wood National Cemetery. |
| Date: | 07 11 1981 |
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| Description: | A male mail carrier taking a break sitting in a mailbox on the sidewalk in a neighborhood. |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Women switchboard operators at the sole Milwaukee telephone exchange. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | 2504 Forest Home Avenue. This hotel was situated on what was originally a plank road between Milwaukee and Muskego. It was designed after the Federal style... |
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