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| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Boats used for fighting fires are docked near a walkway. On the left the walkway is full of men, some gathered near the boats and a fire hose stretched out... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Crowd of men gathered around a man sitting in an early automobile with exposed wheels, engine, and steering wheel. The side of the automobile reads: "King ... |
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| Description: | Passenger ship "Christopher Columbus," which is full of people on multiple decks, along the shore of the city of Milwaukee. Buildings and a second ship are... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Young women carrying purses and wearing very large hats are walking down a sidewalk. A person on the left is holding an umbrella, and one woman is holding ... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Men standing around a puddle alongside a road near a small snowbank. One man is bending down near the puddle with a hammer in his hand. Signs for beer are ... |
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| Description: | Crowd of men gathered around a car at the curb. The back of the car appears almost crushed while portions of the front remain relatively intact. People are... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of entrance to National Park on a city block. A road passes by a grove of evergreen trees lined up along the sidewalk, while two men work nea... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Corner of Second and National Avenue. Cars are lined up on both sides of the street in front of storefronts. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of railroad yards with trains sitting on many of the tracks, though other tracks are sitting empty. Steam is rising from trains in the backgr... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of railroad yards with trains sitting on many of the tracks, with other tracks sitting empty. Steam is rising from trains in the background, ... |
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| Description: | Exterior of the Furrier manufacturing building. Nearby is a gas station promoting "Standard Oil Products". A Coca-Cola sign is near the entrance to the sta... |
| Date: | 10 17 1944 |
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| Description: | Elevated view across rooftops towards smoke rising from a burning building in the city. The building on the left has a billboard supporting the Packers. A ... |
| Date: | 10 17 1944 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from a distance of a fire. A large cloud of smoke is billowing out of the burning building and fire fighters are climbing on a ladder. A buil... |
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| Description: | View down Milwaukee street with strolling pedestrians on the sidewalk. The large commercial buildings include the Gridley Dairy Co. storefront. There is al... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | East Wisconsin Avenue showing men and women on the sidewalks and the Hotel Pfister in the background. |
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| Description: | Snowy Milwaukee street with the Edgewood streetcar, pedestrians and horse-drawn carriages. Men and women are passing by a clock on the sidewalk. A Gimbels... |
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| Description: | A downtown Milwaukee street with beer wagon, pedestrians, a bicyclist, and a horse-drawn wagon loaded with beer barrels. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | View of downtown Milwaukee riverbank before the First National Bank was built in 1914. Advertising painted on the sides of buildings includes B. Mock & So... |
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| Description: | A boy wearing overalls and holding a Pepsi bottle is standing on the curb near a trash pile. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| 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 ... |
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