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| Date: | 08 01 1929 |
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| Description: | The old U.S. Post Office and Federal Building at 4 East Mifflin Street, just months before it was torn down and replaced by Manchester's Department store. ... |
| Date: | 08 09 1934 |
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| Description: | The Wisconsin State Employment Office, formerly the Capital City Bank, located on the corner of King and South Pinckney Streets. On the left is Liggett's ... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of Beloit with insets of Williams Engine Works, Eclipse Wind Engine Co., and John Foster & Co. Turtle Creek is in the lower section, and the... |
| Date: | 12 09 1933 |
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| Description: | Men crowd around the newly opened Dane County C.W.A. Pay Station at the corner of West Dayton and North Carroll Streets to pick up paychecks. |
| Date: | 01 02 1928 |
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| Description: | Stone walls are going up on the second floor. The view is looking west at the back of the building, with a wheelbarrow and scaffolding in the lot. In the b... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | A bridge crosses the Milwaukee River on Oneida Street, now known as Wells Street, looking toward the City Hall tower. |
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| Description: | Interior view of the crowds in the Wisconsin Industry Building and the building's unusual art deco decoration. Few photographs depict African Americans at ... |
| Date: | 06 28 1865 |
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| Description: | The Great Fair held at Milwaukee for the benefit of the Wisconsin Soldiers Home. The 130x130 foot building was constructed especially for the ten-day fair.... |
| Date: | 03 10 1952 |
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| Description: | Funds received from the sale of Easter seals each spring provide the taxi service necessary to tranport the handicapped members of the Happy Hours club to ... |
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| Description: | Panoramic view from street of sixteen men standing on the sidewalk in front of the Jackson County Bank and the Post Office. On the sidewalk in front of the... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | View of the atrium of Milwaukee's City Hall with a crowd of people gathered to register for unemployment compensation. |
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| Description: | View of Flores Avenue, a commercial section of downtown. The city hall, built in 1884, stands on the left near Laredo National Bank, founded in 1892. On ... |
| Date: | 08 30 1954 |
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| Description: | Teenagers dance the can-can for the American Field Service Exchange Program benefit ice cream social and dance. The benefit is sponsored by the East Side Y... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Man posed next to a truck hauling the world's biggest cheese, named "Goliath" by The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture. Probably taken at the Wisconsin S... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Elevated view to the south from the Capitol Square. The large building on the left is the original first National Bank that was demolished to make way for ... |
| Date: | 03 20 1939 |
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| Description: | Leaving the White House after their Social Security conference with President Roosevelt are (left to right): John Hanes, Undersecretary of the Treasury; Ar... |
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| Description: | Wilbur J. Cohen is with President Lyndon Johnson and two others of the President's economic advisors in the Oval Office of the White House. |
| Date: | 05 16 1968 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of family and friends at Wilbur Cohen's swearing-in as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. From left to right: Bruce Cohen, Wilbur's... |
| Date: | 07 14 1965 |
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| Description: | President Johnson gives a warm handshake to AFL-CIO Social Security Dir. Nelson H. Cruikshank after a White House ceremony in which he signed into law the ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | This map is a survey of Kenosha Harbor and shows local streets, public buildings, local businesses, and part of Lake Michigan. Included is text on sailing ... |
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