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| Date: | 04 10 1935 |
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| Description: | An International C-35 truck used by Poinsettia Dairy Products, Inc., parked outside a company building. A sign in the shape of a milk bottle advertises ice... |
| Date: | 02 18 1935 |
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| Description: | View from street of a man wearing overalls and a hat loading a loaf of Lippman's bread into a box shelved in the back of an International truck owned by Li... |
| Date: | 07 18 1934 |
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| Description: | Men loading barrels from Wagner Brewing Company onto the bed of an International truck. They are standing near a doorway to a brick building with an electr... |
| Date: | 07 1962 |
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| Description: | View from the Wisconsin State Capitol looking west down State Street. A man and woman walk up the stairs leading to the capitol building. |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | An International Model KB-6-F truck used by Baker-Thomas Company parked near the front of a library building. Two men stand on the bed of the truck with st... |
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| Description: | Harold Gauer standing on the sidewalk in front of a topless club, shading his eyes to look into the establishment. Signs read "Erotic Magazines Stag Films,... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | View from across street of various representations of the "Don't Buy Cudahy" boycott campaign outside the Packinghouse Workers headquarters: cartops, women... |
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| Description: | A sign prominently displays "OPEN THANKSGIVING DAI" in the top left corner of the frame. Across Third Street behind the sign is the 88 Tavern. Down Portlan... |
| Date: | 03 24 1980 |
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| Description: | A birch tree is in the center foreground. Behind it is a municipal parking lot with an automobile parked in it near the storefront of Neubauer's Sporting G... |
| Date: | 04 1981 |
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| Description: | View across street of parked cars along curb in front of the Suburban Inn, formerly the Park Hotel, on the 300 block of Broom Street. Next door on the righ... |
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| Description: | An electric sign for "The Manor / 2 Blocks / Dining" towers over a long, one-story building. |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking down Canal Street, featuring cars, pedestrians, trolleys, and a variety of storefronts. |
| Date: | 05 24 1950 |
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| Description: | A view of downtown, including the official Dells ticket office. In the foreground a man is sitting on a bench reading a newspaper, and other pedestrians ar... |
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| Description: | Elevated view down State Street. The Orpheum Theatre sign is visible, and in the distance is Lake Mendota. |
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| Description: | Exterior view at night of the Butterfly Theater, 212 West Wisconsin Avenue, from the street. Early advertisements proclaimed it to be "Milwaukee's movie pa... |
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| Description: | Exterior of the Orpheum Theatre, which opened in 1900. Designed by Frank Freeman in the Beaux-Arts style, the facade features sculptures, a marquee, and ba... |
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| Description: | View down sidewalk of exterior of the Maid-Rite Restaurant, with hanging sign and American flag. |
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| Description: | Lewis Arms poses next to an automobile in front of Carl Elvord's Barbeque restaurant on the corner of Mound and Murray Streets in "the Bush". |
| Date: | 2007 |
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| Description: | An exterior view from across street of Bodega Brew Pub on corner of Pearl Street. |
| Date: | 2006 |
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| Description: | View from across street of "Buzzard Billy's." There is a decorative fish on top of the establishment. |
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