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Map or Atlas

View of the City of Milwaukee

Date: 1856
Description: View looking west from Lake Michigan with several steam ships and sailing vessels in harbor. There is a lighthouse to left of center, along shoreline.
Photograph

Fishing On Breakwater

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

Lake Michigan Shore Bluffs

Date: 1877
Description: View of bluffs and buildings on the shore of Lake Michigan.
Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Harvester Company Catalog

Date: 1886
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for the Milwaukee Harvester Company featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of a farmer in a field operating a hor...
Print

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Date: 1858
Description: Elevated view from bluff looking down on city, with Lake Michigan in background. Detailed foreground with two boys playing with a grounded kite, while a ma...
Photograph

CM&SP Railroad Engine

Date: 1931
Description: Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway engine #6414, built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia and purchased in 1931. The train is near the 26th...
Photograph

Woman in Horse-Drawn Cart

Date: 
Description: A woman driving a two-wheeled carriage pulled by two white horses.
Photograph

Railroad Depot from Juneau Park Bluff

Date: 08 06 1917
Description: Overlooking the Chicago and North Western railroad depot from Juneau Park bluff. Caption on glass plate reads: "Extention [sic] of Juneau Park, show...
Photograph

Juneau Park

Date: 05 30 1914
Description: Juneau Park looking north from approximately E. Mason Street, with the Chicago and North Western railroad tracks on the right. The Lake Michigan shoreline ...
Photograph

Pabst Whitefish Bay Resort

Date: 1914
Description: Elevated view of Pabst Whitefish Bay Resort on the shores of Lake Michigan, with crowds of individuals walking up the numerous paths that lead to the resor...
Postcard

Bechstein's Bathing Establishment

Date: 
Description: Color postcard of a bathing place on the water. A hill is behind the building, and there are a signs for a swimming school and the Wm. Bechstein Co. Severa...
Postcard

Grand Avenue Viaduct

Date: 1920
Description: View toward viaduct, with railroad tracks and houses below. Caption reads: "Grand Ave. Viaduct, Milwaukee."
Postcard

Juneau Park

Date: 
Description: Train station in the distance, with a man standing in the foreground on steps leading down to the lake, near a fenced-in pond. On the left are railroad tra...
Postcard

Statue of Leif Ericson

Date: 1910
Description: View along top of hill in the park toward a woman and child sitting on a bench near the monument. At the bottom of the hill on the left are railroad tracks...
Postcard

Millioki Club

Date: 1910
Description: View from road toward a large building on a small hill above a road. Three posts are along the road, and small rails line the the sidewalk near a small dri...
Postcard

Whitefish Bay Resort

Date: 1905
Description: Elevated view of people walking on a path by the Whitefish Bay Resort along the lake front. Caption reads: "Whitefish Bay Resort, Milwaukee."
Postcard

Milwaukee River Dam

Date: 1915
Description: Elevated view of dam on river. A bridge is in the background. Houses are on top of the hill on the right side. Caption reads: "The Dam, Milwaukee River."
Photograph

Debris On Shoreline

Date: 
Description: Elevated view across water towards a building at the top of a steep incline, with a small group of people to the left. On top of the hill to the right are ...
Photograph

Pathfinder Car on Dirt Road

Date: 
Description: The Milwaukee Journal Pathfinder traveling down a dirt road in the country.
Photograph

Pathfinder on Rural Road

Date: 1911
Description: The Milwaukee Journal car on the side of the road in the countryside. Two women are sitting in the car, and two men are sitting on the side and front of th...

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