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| Date: | 07 1959 |
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| Description: | Dickey Chapelle, photographer, on the same Milwaukee beach where she learned to swim as a young girl. She was covering "Operation Inland Seas" celebrating ... |
| Date: | 04 1950 |
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| Description: | A girl on a swing is the subject of photographers demonstrating a technique using high speed flash. |
| Date: | 05 11 1955 |
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| Description: | Chalk lines in the foreground mark the spot where White Elephant Bar owner was shot. Police and detectives conferred in the background after assembling inv... |
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| Description: | A motorcyclist drives down the middle of the road, possibly in a race, as a crowd looks on. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Kleinstueber's Machine Shop, where Christopher Latham Sholes perfected his typewriter. The sign on the top of the building reads: "Brass F... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Man driving a horse-drawn trolley of the Milwaukee City Railroad Company on the Greenfield Avenue & Third Street line. The corner of a building advertising... |
| Date: | 06 25 1937 |
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| Description: | Workers at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works perform "tear-down" inspections and tests of diesel engines. |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | A worker lifting a stationary gas engine frame with an overhead crane at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. The factory was owned by the Milwaukee ... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Two men working on engine components on an assembly line at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. The factory was owned by the Milwaukee Harvester Com... |
| Date: | 1894 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising catalog for the Milwaukee Harvester Company featuring an illustration of a soldier on a horse in a field under the title "Peace and... |
| Date: | 08 21 1963 |
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| Description: | Couple poses behind carnival cutout of a sailor and mermaid. |
| Date: | 03 16 1963 |
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| Description: | "The eyes of the guests popped, but room clerk Frank R. Witte, 1133 E Knapp Street, took it in stride Friday afternoon when Badwater Bill, accompanied by h... |
| Date: | 06 1971 |
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| Description: | Barber Mike Godsell sitting back and relaxing in his shop. |
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| Description: | The "Chippewa," one of the Milwaukee Road's high speed Hiawatha locomotives at the Union Station. The station clock tower can be seen in the background. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Beverly Steffen, the 1952 Alice in Dairyland, poses with Harley Davidson motorcyle racers and crew at the Wisconsin State Fair. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | George Malone and his camera in front of an ice formation on the Milwaukee (Bayview) shoreline of Lake Michigan. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Five men stand on a city street surrounded by onlookers, perhaps a parade or some other public event. Two of the men in the street are carrying photography... |
| Date: | 10 08 1960 |
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| Description: | The speakers platform during a Presidential campaign rally for Richard M. Nixon at Billy Mitchell Airport in Milwaukee. With Nixon on the platform are Kirb... |
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| Description: | Father James Groppi speaking through a megaphone from the hood of a bus. Groppi stands with Alderperson Vel Phillips. Several of the people in the assemble... |
| Date: | 11 04 1937 |
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| Description: | Two factory workers pour molten metal into diesel engine crankcase forms at the Milwaukee Works foundry. Photograph taken by Don Jones. |
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