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Road Crew Repairing Street

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Description: A road crew repairing a street.
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Boring Mill Table

Date: 02 14 1961
Description: Two men crouch atop of the large gear, while another stands at the side overseeing the lift. This gear was purchased and used by the Ladish Company of Cuda...
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S.S. Santa Cruz Propeller

Date: 07 18 1966
Description: Propeller of the S.S. Santa Cruz. Falk caption reads, "Photos taken for reference in study of propeller reversing characteristics for SUN Marine red...
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Split Ring Gear

Date: 09 15 1966
Description: Falk caption reads, "Photos of ring gear to be displayed at the Association of Iron and Steel Engineers (AISE) show in Cleveland, Ohio, September 26th thro...
Photograph

Large Mill Drive

Date: 10 29 1968
Description: Mill drive purchased by Allis Chalmers and used by Duval. Original Falk caption reads, "260 inch x 34 inch single helical split ring gear... part of a phot...
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Women Stepping Off a Streetcar

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Description: A woman carefully steps off a Milwaukee streetcar. Original Falk caption reads, "Photos borrowed from Milwaukee County Transport for use in brochure 850801...
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Street Cleaner and Streetcar

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Description: A street cleaner sweeps the tracks in a residential neighborhood, as the streetcar and its operator and passengers wait. Original Falk caption reads, "Phot...
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Allis-Chalmers Company

Date: 1935
Description: Exterior of factory with a streetcar and parked cars in the background. Streetcar wires crisscross overhead, and in the foreground on the right are a group...
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Breakwater, Milwaukee Harbor

Date: 1900
Description: Long wooden pier with people fishing along the pier. Three males with their fishing poles and buckets are walking toward the viewer. A person next to a b...
Postcard

City Hall and Pabst Building

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Description: Hand-colored view from the water. Buildings are in the background, a boat and bridge are in the center. A small boat with people in it are in the foregroun...
Print

Cottage Inn

Date: 1835
Description: Two-story home with sloping roof. One man is whipping a team of eight cattle while another man drives the plow behind them. To the left stands a man near a...
Photograph

Cottage Inn

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Description: Drawing of a two-story building with a roof that slopes down to one story in the back. Two men are on the porch talking, a third is coming off a boat from ...
Photograph

Interurban Waiting Station

Date: 1910
Description: A large crowd is gathered along a sidewalk, spilling onto the road, in front of the station.
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Mason Street

Date: 1889
Description: Looking down street toward Lake Michigan, which is visible at the end of the road. The dirt street is lined with trees and houses. On the right stands a...
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The Milwaukee Journal Building

Date: 1924
Description: The Milwaukee Journal Building located at 734 North 4th Street. To the right of the building in an alley are circulation trucks. Newsboys and customers are...
Photograph

German Market

Date: 1866
Description: Stereograph. This building, which was destroyed by fire in 1866, was located in the commercial district known as Market Square. The Square was actually a t...
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Motorboat on Milwaukee River

Date: 1914
Description: View across water of a motorboat with four men going upstream. There is a bicycle in the motorboat. The shoreline in the background has industrial building...
Magazine or Periodical

National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers

Date: 1870
Description: Magazine illustration of the home, titled: "Soldiers' National Asylum at Milwaukee, Wisconsin". The building is in the background, and in the foreground ar...
Print

National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers

Date: 1867
Description: E.T. Mix designed the original building of the National Soldiers Home in 1867. At the time the structure was dedicated on 28 September 1867, the wings had ...
Photograph

Walter Allen School

Date: 1890
Description: Exterior of Walter Allen School, with a woman in a carriage parked in front. The Walter Allen School was an elementary school located at 1657 South Third S...

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