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| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | State Street view looking toward the University of Wisconsin, with the 200 block in the foreground. The marquee for the Capitol Theatre reads "'Jealousy,' ... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | View of some of the businesses on North Main Street, including the Strand Theater and Olk Drugs. |
| Date: | 02 28 1940 |
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| Description: | The Parkway Theater with "Grapes of Wrath" display, 6-10 West Mifflin Street. |
| Date: | 11 22 1929 |
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| Description: | View from street of the facade of the Capitol Theatre with marquee advertising "Harold Lloyd," "Welcome Danger," and "His first all talking comedy thrille... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | View across street of the 200 block of State Street, showing pedestrians in conversation, parked automobiles, streetcar tracks, and the storefronts of a sh... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of four lanes of cars arriving at the Wisconsin State Fair's Main Gate. They are being directed by parking lot attendants. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | View across street of the Al. Ringling Theater with a Studebaker pickup truck in the foreground. There is a hardware store on the right. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Somewhat out-of-focus exterior view of City Hall from the Capitol grounds. |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | The corner of N. 5th Street and W. Wisconsin Avenue. Landmarks from left to right: Wisconsin Roof (dancing), Strand Theater, Miller High Life Spa, and the ... |
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| Description: | Cars parked in front of Six Point Bottle House (a tavern), 3519 W. Fond du Lac Avenue. |
| Date: | 1990 |
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| Description: | Warehouse in Milwaukee's historic Third Ward transformed for its appearance in a made-for-TV movie as the Biograph Theatre in Chicago, where John Dillinger... |
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| Description: | Elevated view down Wisconsin Avenue towards Lake Mendota. |
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| Description: | Exterior view at night of the Butterfly Theater, 212 West Wisconsin Avenue, from the street. Early advertisements proclaimed it to be "Milwaukee's movie pa... |
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| Description: | Exterior of the Orpheum Theatre, which opened in 1900. Designed by Frank Freeman in the Beaux-Arts style, the facade features sculptures, a marquee, and ba... |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of pedestrians and automobiles passing by the flagship Marshall Field's department store (Marshall Field & Co.), built in 1892 by Da... |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of a crowd of pedestrians passing the Marshall Field's department store (Marshall Field & Co.), built in 1892 by Daniel H. Burnham a... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Front view of the New Amsterdam Theatre (Theater), which advertises the 1925 Ziegfield Follies on its marquee and on street level the play "The Knife in th... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view from street corner at Broadway and West 50th Street of the Rivoli Theater in Times Square when it was screening the movie "Foreign C... |
| Date: | 05 16 1953 |
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| Description: | View from street of the University of Wisconsin Marching Band parading down Mifflin Street, past the Strand Theater. This parade took place on Armed Forces... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Exterior view from sidewalk of City Hall, located at the intersection of West Mifflin Street and Wisconsin Avenue. The Parkway Theatre, featuring the films... |
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