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Horse-Drawn Fire Wagon

Date: 1910
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 ...
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Monthly Market Fair

Date: 1908
Description: Elevated view of farmer's wagons, teams, and pedestrian traffic crowd Princeton's main street for the monthly market fair. Some snow is on the ground and a...
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Main Street Looking South

Date: 1909
Description: Text on front reads: "Main Street Looking South, Lone Rock, Wis." Unpaved street with sidewalks, dwellings and buildings on both sides. Horse drawn vehicle...
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Quitting Time at McCormick Reaper Works

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view of workers filing out of the gates of the McCormick Reaper Works at the end of a work day. The factory became part of the International Harve...
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Costume Parade

Date: 1907
Description: Elevated view of a costume parade on State Street, at the corner of State Street and Gilman Street. On both sides of the street are drugstores. The one on ...
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Hausmann Brewing Company

Date: 1915
Description: View across street towards the Hausmann Brewing Company on the corner of State and Gorham Streets. An archway on the right side leads to an inner courtyard...
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Vilas Park

Date: 1908
Description: Elevated view of Vilas Park, filled with groups of people on the lawn, and horse-drawn carriages on the drive.
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Parade on the Capitol Square

Date: 1910
Description: A parade turning the corner from Wisconsin Avenue on to the Capitol Square. A horse-drawn wagon in the foreground carries a May Pole and dancers from the K...
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Rockdale Creamery

Date: 1900
Description: Men and boys with wagonloads of milk at the Rockdale Creamery.
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Suffrage March

Date: 03 03 1913
Description: Elevated view of a suffrage parade, with a large crowd looking on. The sign on the horse-drawn wagon reads: "We Demand an Amendment to the Constitution of ...
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Farmer's Market

Date: 1917
Description: Exterior view of the Municipal Market, which was built in 1910 but not operated successfully until July 1917 when it was run by a group of women from the D...
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Main Street

Date: 1900
Description: A view down Main Street with horses and wagons tied at hitching posts.
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Milwaukee Coal Wagon

Date: 1904
Description: Elevated view of wagons hauling coal from the Milwaukee Western Fuel Company holding up street car traffic on a busy Milwaukee street.
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Turn of the Century Street Scene

Date: 1900
Description: Horse-drawn wagons, including a water wagon, stand on a street next to a broad sidewalk in a commercial district. The storefronts of P.L. McQuillan and Con...
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Steam Fire Engine with Three Horses

Date: 1900
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...
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Jefferson's Transfer Line

Date: 1900
Description: Exterior view of Jefferson's Transfer Line, owned by Beverly Jefferson. Beverly Frederick Jefferson was the grandson of President Thomas Jefferson, being ...
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Willson Monarch Remedies Wagon

Date: 1935
Description: Two salesmen stand beside one of the Willson's Monarch Remedies horse-drawn wagons. Willson's sold patent medicines, spices, extracts, flavorings, and "toi...
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International C1300 Water Truck for Horses

Date: 1967
Description: Man delivering water to a horse with an International C1300 (4x4) truck. The mobile water truck was owned by the Philadelphia Society for the Prevention of...
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Deering Works seen from Diversey Avenue

Date: 1919
Description: Deering Works factory seen across the waterfront from Diversey Avenue. In the foreground is a street and sidewalk with the sign "horse vehicles keep to rig...
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Women in the Rain

Date: 1900
Description: Three women in hats and long skirts walk with umbrellas in the rain.

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