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| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Horse-drawn fire wagon coming down a cobblestone street in Milwaukee. The fact that automobiles are also in the photograph suggests that the transition to ... |
| Date: | 08 31 1909 |
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| Description: | A coaching party of festively clad men, women, and children departing for the Annual Scottish Games sponsored by the St. Andrews Society. Some participants... |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of wagons hauling coal from the Milwaukee Western Fuel Company holding up street car traffic on a busy Milwaukee street. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A steam fire engine of Milwaukee's Fire Company #2 drawn by three white horses racing to a fire. Prior motor driven fire equipment was a greater danger tha... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Three women in hats and long skirts walk with umbrellas in the rain. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Turner Hall in Milwaukee with horse-drawn wagon passing. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Milwaukee in 1853 details building features and city layout from southwest. Important buildings are numbered in a silhouette drawing bel... |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | A man tips his hat to a passing woman as horse-drawn carts and pedestrians navigate through the dirt and mud of Milwaukee streets, thereby illustrating tha... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Union Depot with clock tower. The railroad station with clock tower is behind a park. Horse-drawn vehicles are near the entrance. Caption reads: "Union Dep... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of busy street scene in downtown Milwaukee at the turn of the century showing a trolley, horse-drawn vehicles and pedestrians near an interse... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View looking up Wisconsin Avenue from the bridge. Many pedestrians, streetcars, and horse-drawn vehicles are visible. |
| Date: | 03 29 1913 |
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| Description: | East Wisconsin Avenue commercial district looking west from V. Van Buren Street. Landmarks left to right: Federal Building, Northwestern National Insurance... |
| Date: | 03 19 1914 |
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| Description: | Commercial district looking towards East Wisconsin Avenue from the roof of the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurace home office at Van Buren Street. The Feder... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad depot at W. Everett Street between N. 3rd and N. 4th Streets. Caption on glass plate reads: "C. M. & St. P. De... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | The northwest corner of the Robert A. Johnston Company cookie factory at S. 1st and W. Florida Streets. |
| Date: | 06 08 1905 |
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| Description: | Elevated view across intersection towards the Milwaukee Free Press building at E. Wisconsin Avenue and N. Broadway (built as Northwestern Mutual's home off... |
| Date: | 06 19 1909 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Caswell Block building at W. Wisconsin and N. Plankinton Avenues. |
| Date: | 09 01 1910 |
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| Description: | 27th Street viaduct looking north, Menomonee Valley area, with gas holders of the Milwaukee Gas Light Co. in the background. Pedestrians and wagons are cro... |
| Date: | 04 29 1921 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of City Hall at intersection bustling with pedestrians, streetcars, and parked automobiles. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | The northeast corner of the Cawker Building at W. Wells Street and N. Plankinton Avenue. |
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