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Neighborhood Garage Sale

Date: 09 13 1984
Description: People working and shopping at a neighborhood garage sale in the Walker's Square Park area. Several neighborhood groups collaborated to sponsor the annual ...
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Group Posing in front of Salvation Army

Date: 08 30 1945
Description: Group portrait of children and group leaders wearing paper hats and carrying flags, posing in front of the Salvation Army building, 121 West Wilson Street ...
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Mothers and Children of the Neighborhood

Date: 08 27 1931
Description: Group portrait of mothers and children in front of a house at 434 Virginia Terrace.
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Virginia Gillette Spanking Dicky Dupois

Date: 08 27 1931
Description: Virginia Gillette demonstrates how residents in the 400 block of Virginia Terrace are combating traffic dangers by spanking. Dicky Dupois is over her knee,...
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Soggy but Fun

Date: 08 03 1981
Description: Despite rain and fog, people turned out to enjoy a street festival sponsored by the Guadalupe Center at 239 W. Washington Street in Milwaukee. There were e...
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Family in front of Picket Fence

Date: 1874
Description: Family in front of picket fence, with L-shaped frame house with porch and high stone foundation.
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Lewis Dahl Driving Automobile

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Description: Home of Tina Dahl Bertrand. Lewis Dahl at the wheel of an automobile. Walter and mother second and third from right in back seat. Bertrands on porch.
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St. Joseph's Church Eighth Grade Class

Date: 06 07 1945
Description: Group portrait of the eighth grade graduation class with priest, nun and altar boys in front of St. Joseph's Catholic School, 901 Bowen Court in the Greenb...
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Bicycle Riding Tests

Date: 04 30 1947
Description: Marquette School students being tested for riding skills in front of the school, 510 South Thornton Avenue. The testing is along Spaight Street.
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Girl Signaling During Bicycle Riding Test

Date: 03 30 1947
Description: Marquette School student, a girl in a flowered skirt, being tested for riding skills in front of the school at 510 South Thornton Avenue. The testing is al...
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Neighborhood House

Date: 12 06 1947
Description: Children working with Paul Lowrey, instructor, at a small workbench at the Neighborhood House, 768 West Washington Avenue across from Brittingham Park. Pic...
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Mason Street

Date: 1889
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...
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Roundy and Children in Front of the Majestic Theater

Date: 08 18 1948
Description: From the left: Ray Rockow, manager of the Majestic Theater on King Street; Roundy, Wisconsin State Journal; and Cliff Harm, Montgomery-Ward and Co. ...
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600 Block South Brearly Street with cars and children

Date: 1918
Description: Unidentified man stands beside a car, with Richard "Dick" Lloyd Jones and Jenkin Lloyd Jones inside. An unidentified man poses beside a second car. In th...
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Sliding Down Hill

Date: 11 23 1949
Description: View across river of a large crowd of people on a sledding hill, and also gathered around a shelter building. Houses are in the background atop the hill.
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Bodenius House

Date: 1898
Description: Two young girls wearing hats and dresses are leaning on a planter in the yard, two women are on the porch, and a man is sitting in a horse-drawn carriage. ...
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Portrait of J. Robert Taylor Family

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Description: The J. Robert Taylor family. J. Robert Taylor, his wife Alma Reinhardt Taylor, and their three children, Donna, Frederick, and Ellen. They are dressed in c...
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Madison Soap Box Derby

Date: 07 24 1949
Description: Madison Soap Box Derby view of the crowd watching the race in front of Water Works, corner of East Gorham and North Hancock Streets. Motorcycle Officer, C....
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Madison Soap Box Derby Parade

Date: 07 24 1949
Description: Seventy-six derby car drivers march behind leader Frankie Meyers on East Gorham Street during the Soap Box Derby Parade of Youth.
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Sitting on the Porch

Date: 1920
Description: A woman and a child sit on a railing and look out from the porch of their house. A man is in the background approaching from a car parked in the street.

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