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| Date: | 10 03 1927 |
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| Description: | Capitol Theatre, 211 State Street, under construction, showing ceiling construction under the roof. |
| Date: | 04 02 1927 |
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| Description: | Capitol Theatre, at 211 State Street, under construction. The view is from the northwest corner toward northeast corner. American Bridge Co. sign is on the... |
| Date: | 12 02 1926 |
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| Description: | Capitol Theatre, 211 State Street, with the foundation excavation as seen from Kruse's Store looking toward Dayton Street. |
| Date: | 12 02 1926 |
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| Description: | Capitol Theatre, at 211 State Street. View of the foundation excavation looking from the construction house toward State Street. |
| Date: | 01 03 1927 |
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| Description: | Capitol Theatre, at 211 State Street. View showing the foundation excavation looking from the north toward Dayton Street. |
| Date: | 01 03 1927 |
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| Description: | Capitol Theatre, at 211 State Street. View of the foundation excavation from the construction house roof toward State Street. The Wisconsin State Capitol i... |
| Date: | 02 01 1927 |
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| Description: | Capitol Theatre, at 211 State Street, under construction. View is looking from the south toward State Street. |
| Date: | 02 01 1927 |
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| Description: | Capitol Theatre, 211 State Street, under construction. View looking from Kessenich's toward Dayton Street. |
| Date: | 03 01 1927 |
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| Description: | Capitol Theatre, 211 State Street, under construction. View from the roof of Kruse's store towards two workmen and the construction house. |
| Date: | 04 10 1927 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of new Orpheum Theatre ushers. Behind the group is a statue of a boy with a goat on a pedestal near the "Aisle 2" doors to the auditorium. |
| Date: | 11 03 1926 |
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| Description: | Exterior view from street towards the front of the Orpheum Theater under construction, at 216 State Street. Posters on the temporary wood facade are for th... |
| Date: | 08 27 1948 |
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| Description: | Children lined up on sidewalk in front of L. Wieman Co. Store, 205-07 State Street, to attend a free back-to-school movie party at the Capitol Theatre. In ... |
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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... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the segregated entrance for African-Americans at Malco Theater. There is a fire escape on the side of the building. Several cars are parke... |
| Date: | 1971 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of a central business district. The theater marquee on the left reads: "The Concert for Bangladesh." Across the street on the right ... |
| 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: | 1907 |
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| Description: | A horse-drawn cart, marked B.C. Horsch, is waiting near Dr. W.H. Perrigo's veterinary and dental business in the S. Sixth Street neighborhood in Milwaukee.... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View down sidewalk towards people standing in a line outside a movie theater showing the film The Long Voyage Home. Many people are holding umbrella... |
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| Description: | View from street of the marquee and entrance to the Parkway Theatre at 6 W. Mifflin Street. |
| Date: | 09 1972 |
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| Description: | View across sidewalk of the Reierson Photography Studio storefront, in its new location, 14 East Mifflin Street, between adjoining businesses. The Wisconsi... |
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