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| Date: | 1894 |
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| Description: | View across railroad tracks of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway engine #212, also known as the Waukesha Scoot, at Milwaukee's Union Depot. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Milwaukee rail yards. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Milwaukee River with large sailing ship - a two-masted schooner - entering the port. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | A Chicago & Northwestern train crossing a railroad bridge. |
| Date: | 10 1983 |
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| Description: | The Milwaukee Road Shops, formerly the foundery, at 3301 West Canal Street. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Elevated view across valley toward a streetcar viaduct on the Waukesha Interurban Line, near Milwaukee. Caption reads: "Street Car Bridge on Waukesha Inter... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of industrial area. The building in the foreground has a sign that reads: "Machine Shop" on it roof. People are working in a large open area,... |
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| Description: | "Conrad Starke" (possibly a tugboat) cruising on the water near a bridge in an industrial area. The waterway is probably connected to Lake Michigan. Three ... |
| Date: | 10 28 1938 |
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| Description: | Docks and shanties at Jones Island, with smokestacks and cranes in the background. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad stockyards, at about 25th Street. |
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| Description: | A lumberyard at about E. Lincoln Avenue and S. Burrell Street in Bay View, looking west to St. Josaphat's Basilica. |
| Date: | 01 20 1926 |
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| Description: | A parked tow truck of the Schlei-Nelson Company of 3026 North Avenue. |
| Date: | 03 19 1940 |
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| Description: | View across Milwaukee River of workers of the Herman M. Hettler Lumber Company unloading lumber off a shipping boat to the Shroeder Lumber Yards and Troste... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of two Goodrich Line passenger ferries docked on the west bank of the Milwaukee River, north of the Clybourn Street bridge. The Pabst buildin... |
| Date: | 09 10 1903 |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking north on the Milwaukee River from the Holton Street viaduct towards the Milwaukee lumberyards. |
| Date: | 05 11 1902 |
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| Description: | Looking up the Milwaukee River to the Humboldt Avenue bridge, with the North Avenue dam in the background. |
| Date: | 06 08 1902 |
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| Description: | Looking up the Milwaukee River to the Holton Street viaduct. In the center is the Gallun tannery. There is also a steamboat in the harbor, several lumber y... |
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| Description: | View of two steamboats, looking up the Milwaukee River from the north bank, near the foot of N. Milwaukee Street. Both steamboats are of the Goodrich Trans... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of rows of finished tractors cover a yard outside Milwaukee Works. On the left is a water tower, and in the foreground are railroad tracks wi... |
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