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| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | A Milwaukee billboard advertising a lecture by Earl Browder, general secretary of the Communist Party-USA. The sign reads "Win the War Rally! Earl Browder,... |
| Date: | 05 07 1969 |
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| Description: | Marine gear unit ready to be shipped. This particular gear unit, a component of a Great Lakes Ore Carrier was purchased by General Motors-Electro Motive Di... |
| Date: | 09 08 1971 |
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| Description: | This 2 pinion gear was purchased by the Fairbanks Morse Division of the Colt Industry and used by United States Steel. Falk caption reads, "Main propulsion... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Rows of tractors lined up in the snow outside International Harvester's Milwaukee Works factory. |
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| Description: | Panoramic view of International Harvester's Milwaukee Works factory. |
| Date: | 05 04 1886 |
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| Description: | Lumber yard with boxcars and factory buildings in the back. Made while factory was under protection of the State Militia during the first general labor str... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Two ships at the end of the canal, several buildings, a small lumberyard, and snow. Three other ships are visible down the canal. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from a building of a canal in the city, with a boat on the canal. A bridge is also visible. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Located in West Milwaukee. Trains, cars, tracks, and railroad buildings. The view is taken from the top of a building. |
| Date: | 1980 |
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| Description: | Stereograph; elevated view of what was supposedly the largest elevator in the world at the time. Though there is a Peirce & Whaling Company imprint over t... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | The smokestack is several inches out of plumb, which was the reason the photographer took the photograph. Located on a waterfront. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of city, river and harbor. Two smokestacks are on either side of the river mouth. |
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| Description: | Three boats on right. Left side has two buildings and small boats in fog. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Buildings and smokestacks along a riverfront. Sky darkened by the smoke. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | A fishing settlement. Two piers at the shoreline with a sandy beach, one with a ramp next to it. There are several buildings in the background. Two tugbo... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of island with houses and boathouses and boats along the shoreline. Industrial buildings are in the background, and a sailboat is on the wate... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View across water toward several buildings on shoreline, two with large smokestacks. A man is standing on the shore, and two people are in a boat on the ri... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Building from across the river, with construction workers working nearby. Signs for the Boston Store and Diamond tires are on the roof, as well as lettered... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A view north of Wells Street with a bridge on the right. Two large smokestacks, and a tall building with a clock break up the skyline. On the left is a bil... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | View across water of a motorboat with four men going upstream. There is a bicycle in the motorboat. The shoreline in the background has industrial building... |
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