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| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Esterly Harvesting Machine Company looking southeast across State Street at intersection with Newcomb Street. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Esterly Harvesting Machine Company looking southwest across State Street at intersection with Newcomb Street. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Esterly Harvesting Machine Company looking north across Milwaukee Street. Buildings shown include the Packing and Shipping Department (far left), the Paint... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | View of the Cereal Mills Company building, with men and a horse-drawn buggy outside on of the buildings on the right. Another man is standing on the far le... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | View across water towards the Empire Mill. Alongside the building are railroad cars at a loading dock. The signs on the mill read: "Globe", "Globe's Empire... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Elevated view across street towards the Dousman Office building, later used as a pearl button factory. A large group of people are sitting and standing at ... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | View of the Appleton Woolen Mills from the south, circa 1895. The three-story building in the right front was constructed in 1893. The long, two-story bui... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Section of the factory at a crossroads with road construction workers outside. Name of company visible on building. |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Milwaukee works. Long steel mill located on the bank of either a lake or a river. Multitudes of smokestacks, tracks, and small buildings. |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Workers at the Willms cigar factory, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, posing with cigars and cigar boxes. Gustav Willms (c. 1854-1917) sits on the far left with six c... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the building at the corner of N. 12th St. and W. St. Paul Avenue that housed Badger State Shoe Co. and Saveland Manufacturing Co. Two hors... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | The cover design of the John A. Salzer Seed Company catalog. The illustration features a variety of flowers, and an inset view of the company's factory bui... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | An advertisement in the John A. Salzer Seed Company catalog. The illustration features corn and oats, and two circular insets, one of factories and fields,... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | View across Franklin Street of the Manitowoc Aluminum Novelty Company on the southwest corner of S. 15th and Franklin Streets. This very first picture of t... |
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