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| Date: | 03 27 1924 |
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| Description: | Looking northeast on N. Prospect Avenue from E. Juneau Avenue. View of the residential neighborhood with automobiles parked on the side of the roads. Capti... |
| Date: | 04 07 1945 |
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| Description: | The D.M. Benjamin residence on Prospect Avenue. |
| Date: | 06 25 1926 |
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| Description: | Automobile and motorcycle with sidecar parked on the side of the road at 712 Jefferson Street, near E. Ogden Avenue. The Notre Dame convent is visible in t... |
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| Description: | Looking west on W. North Avenue from N. 14th Sreet. The Roosevelt Theater is on the far right, and the Luick ice cream building is on the far left. |
| Date: | 08 18 1926 |
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| Description: | Construction workers and early construction machinery being driven by horses in a residential neighborhood. |
| Date: | 07 17 1914 |
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| Description: | Menominee River coal yards, west from the 16th Street viaduct. There is a cargo ship called the "John B. Cowle" in the harbor between two coal yards. Worke... |
| Date: | 09 14 1913 |
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| Description: | Looking northwest from the roof of Northwestern Mutual home office at E. Wisconsin Avenue and N. Van Buren Street toward City Hall, Milwaukee courthouse an... |
| Date: | 08 27 1910 |
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| Description: | Looking south towards the 16th Street viaduct over Menominee Valley from about Clybourn Street. Shows the surrounding industrial area and neighborhoods. Se... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of many horse-drawn vehicles on a main street in an unidentified rural village, perhaps at a farmer's fair. A crowd of men is standing outsid... |
| Date: | 10 1957 |
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| Description: | Crowd in front of the home of Lew Burdette after the Milwaukee Braves defeated the New York Yankees to win the 1957 World Series. Pitcher Burdette won thr... |
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| Description: | A man in a horse-drawn vehicle crosses railroad tracks. |
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| Description: | Severely flooded neighborhood. Two men are looking at the flood from a back porch. |
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| Description: | A barefoot child is sitting on the sidewalk. Houses and buildings are in the background, and laundry is hanging out to dry. |
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| Description: | A street cleaner sweeps the tracks in a residential neighborhood, as the streetcar and its operator and passengers wait. Original Falk caption reads, "Phot... |
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| Description: | Color postcard of a bathing place on the water. A hill is behind the building, and there are a signs for a swimming school and the Wm. Bechstein Co. Severa... |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | View of Biddle Street. The 'x' marks the home of Mr. Brigham. The road is tree-lined, with homes behind the trees. "With cross on it, just under the sou... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A tea shop and a women's apparel shop, located at 236 Prospect Avenue. The building has a corner turret, a front porch, and vines growing up the sides. Ca... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | The postcard caption is in error in its reference to Lake Park, which is distantly located from this street. Possibly Highland Park was intended. A second ... |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | Looking down street toward Lake Michigan, which is visible at the end of the road. The dirt street is lined with trees and houses. On the right stands a... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Houses and trees line the boulevard, and in the middle is a landscaped median with a lamppost. Caption reads: "McKinley Boulevard, Milwaukee, Wis." |
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