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| Description: | Elevated view down Broadway from Mason Street showing buildings, horse-drawn vehicles, and power lines. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of West Water Street from Grand Avenue of horse-drawn vehicles, pedestrians, buildings, storefronts and power lines. |
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| Description: | The Oneida Street (East Wells) power plant, on the north side of Wells and east of the Milwaukee River. Presently, the building is the Milwaukee Repertory ... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a tugboat pulling a lake steamer on the Milwaukee River under an open drawbridge near the Electric Company. |
| Date: | 01 09 1883 |
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| Description: | A large crowd is on the street surrounding the burning building. Fire fighters are struggling with horses pulling the fire engine, and on the left a group... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Light factory district. The street is 44 feet between curbs, with vitrified brick pavement. Telephone poles line the road. |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | A group of men carrying lunch boxes are walking away from a steam engine train, which is near another train and power lines. |
| Date: | 08 15 1913 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from window of the Pawling & Harnischfeger factory on the corner of National Avenue and 44th Street. The road in front has power lines along ... |
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| Description: | A group of boys gathered around a telephone pole on a street corner, captioned: "Inquisitiveness: Getting an Electric Shock." A boy on the left has some ki... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light Company, with a three-quarter view of a man driving an electric cable car marked "State St." under a... |
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