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Milwaukee Grain Exchange Room

Date: 1910
Description: Sample tables in the Grain Exchange Room of the Chamber of Commerce Building. The Milwaukee Grain Exchange was a pioneer in grain trading with their develo...
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Card Players

Date: 03 20 1965
Description: Several men engaged in a serious card game at the Milwaukee Municipal Social Center, one of several centers devoted to social and recreational programs for...
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Family Cleaning their Motorboat

Date: 04 21 1957
Description: An industrious family cleans their motorboat which is parked in the driveway.
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Harley-Davidson Motorcycle

Date: 1905
Description: A man crouches down for a close look at a 1905 model Harley-Davidson motorcycle.
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Portrait of Photographer Edmund Eisenscher

Date: 04 1948
Description: Portrait of photographer Edmund Eisenscher.
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Packinghouse Workers Strike Kitchen

Date: 03 22 1948
Description: Strike kitchen of Local 50, United Packinghouse Workers of America (Plankinton Packing Company). Left to right: Al Herold (chef), Ernie Bernie, Jimmy Glov...
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Semi-Pro Baseball

Date: 1915
Description: Two men playing baseball for semi-pro teams in a Milwaukee ballpark.
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Dance Hall Wine Room

Date: 01 01 1914
Description: People sitting at a table in a dance hall wine room at 2:00 a.m.
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Children Playing in Bedroom

Date: 02 10 1955
Description: Elevated view of boy sitting on a toy fire engine, another boy dressed as a cowboy, and a girl with a toy cash register playing in the bedroom.
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Fishing On Breakwater

Date: 1910
Description: Long row of men in suits and hats fishing on the breakwater.
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Nurses

Date: 1900
Description: Eight nurses in uniform posing in front of a building (probably their workplace). Some of the women are holding a bedframe, pail, and a broom, and other it...
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Girls Jumping Rope

Date: 1900
Description: Two young girls with bows in their hair jump rope as a boy watches.
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Unloading Coal

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Description: A man unloads coal from a boat by walking a wheelbarrow across wooden platforms raised on scaffolds. In the background a man stands with an empty wheelbarr...
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Mah Jongg Game

Date: 05 14 1958
Description: Four women playing Mah Jongg, a Chinese game using tiles.
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Mailman

Date: 07 11 1981
Description: A male mail carrier taking a break sitting in a mailbox on the sidewalk in a neighborhood.
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Layton House

Date: 1880
Description: 2504 Forest Home Avenue. This hotel was situated on what was originally a plank road between Milwaukee and Muskego. It was designed after the Federal style...
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Tannisse and David Taylor having a Tea Party

Date: 1914
Description: Photographer Herman Taylor's children sit at a little table in front of the hearth in the library.
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Shoveling Snow

Date: 1925
Description: Winter scene with a man and young boy shoveling snow from a sidewalk after a heavy snowfall.
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Family Greeting

Date: 1905
Description: Mary E. (Mrs. Joseph) Smith, third from right, with family members on the porch, wave as two men at the bottom of the steps doff their hats.
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Home of the Braves

Date: 04 18 1957
Description: View from rear of two boys, in semi-silhouette, wearing baseball mitts standing and looking out over the baseball diamond from the seating area of County S...

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