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Cudahy Tower

Date: 1955
Description: Night view of tower and Memorial Drive. Cars are parked in front of the tower.
Postcard

Grand Avenue

Date: 1912
Description: Now called Wisconsin Avenue. On the left are trees and a trolley in the road. On the right are several church towers, more trees, and another trolley. In t...
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...
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Byron Kilbourn House

Date: 1887
Description: Northwest corner of Grand Avenue and 4th Street. Built in 1854 at a cost of $18,000. The storefronts were added in 1868; the building razed in 1886.
Postcard

Wisconsin Street at Night

Date: 1910
Description: Elevated view of street at night. Caption reads: "Wisconsin Street at Night, Milwaukee, Wis."
Postcard

South Entrance to Lake Park

Date: 1916
Description: South entrance to park. The bridge has stone lion sculptures on each of its corners, as well as ornate street lamps. A lighthouse and attached buildings ar...
Postcard

South Entrance of Lake Park

Date: 1905
Description: South entrance; an open car with two people is crossing the bridge. Stone lions flank the bridge on each corner. A lighthouse is in the background. Caption...
Postcard

Maryland Hotel and New Y.M.C.A.

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Description: View across street toward the hotel on the left, with the Y.M.C.A. next door. On the right side of the street is a building with a billboard for the Boston...
Postcard

McKinley Boulevard

Date: 1910
Description: Houses and trees line the boulevard, and in the middle is a landscaped median with a lamppost. Caption reads: "McKinley Boulevard, Milwaukee, Wis."
Photograph

Munkitz Apartments

Date: 1971
Description: View from street of American System houses, four identical buildings in a row, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, located at 1102-112 North 27th Street. They ...
Photograph

Girls in a Park near Large Fountain

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Description: Two young girls playing on a pathway near a large fountain and lamppost located in a park.
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Women Pedestrians

Date: 1911
Description: Three women in large hats walking away from two streetcars on a windy day. Other men and women are standing in the background. One of the streetcars has a ...
Photograph

City Hall - Anaglyph

Date: 1870
Description: Stereograph; view of the earlier City Hall building, on Market Square at the corner of E. Water Street and Oneida Street. Several signs are in the image, i...
Photograph

Milwaukee County Court House

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Description: Exterior view from across street of the Milwaukee County Court House, with automobiles, a fire hydrant, and a woman walking across the street.
Drawing

Alexander Mitchell Estate

Date: 1872
Description: Lithograph elevated view of the Alexander Mitchell home and gardens seen from the corner of Ninth and Spring Streets. Pedestrians, horse-riders and a horse...
Photograph

Downtown Circus Parade

Date: 1963
Description: A police officer directs a parade of circus wagons carried on International trucks through downtown streets. The 25-piece parade originated at Circus World...
Photograph

Circus Parade

Date: 06 1963
Description: A Sauk County traffic police vehicle leads a line of circus wagons through past two church buildings during a parade originating at Circus World Museum in ...
Photograph

United Public Workers Parade/Demonstration

Date: 07 13 1946
Description: Decorated truck driven by Leonard Greachowiak through downtown in a United Public Workers Parade/Demonstration. The beribboned pickup displays a sign that ...
Print

H.S. Mack & Co. Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of H.S. Mack & Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with a three-quarter view of the company building, including people walking and driving horse-dr...
Print

Plankinton House Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of Plankinton House in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with a three-quarter view of the hotel and traffic in the street, including people on foot, on hors...

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