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| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Union Depot with clock tower. The railroad station with clock tower is behind a park. Horse-drawn vehicles are near the entrance. Caption reads: "Union Dep... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | The Whitefish Bay Resort and park. Caption reads: "Whitefish Bay Resort, Looking South, Milwaukee." |
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| Description: | Angled view across street toward a park on the right and the railroad station behind. The station has blue roofs, chimneys, and a clocktower. Several vehic... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Soldier's Monument on Grand Avenue, with a wreath places at the base. Steeples of a church are in the background. Scroll work has been added to the upper a... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Grand Avenue (now Wisconsin Avenue). A church building is in the background on the left. Caption reads: "Soldiers' Monument, Grand Avenue, Milwaukee." |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Color image of courthouse with a large tree and park on the left. View taken at an angle to the building from across the street. Horse-drawn carriages are ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Colororized view of the front of the courthouse. Bare trees surround a fountain in the front, which has the top-most part of the dome cut-off by the frame.... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Fountain surrounded by a path and trees. A lamppost is in the right foreground and buildings are in the background. Caption reads: "Fountain, Court House S... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Now called Wisconsin Avenue. Split avenue (strip of land down the center). There are several statues on plinths and/or columns in the median. Caption reads... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Now called Wisconsin Avenue. On the left are trees and a trolley in the road. On the right are several church towers, more trees, and another trolley. In t... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking east from Eleventh Street. The avenue is lined with buildings and trees. A large flagpole is in the center of the avenue which is lan... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | View down center of avenue. Horse-drawn vehicles are on the road and pedestrians are on the sidewalk. Caption reads: "Grand Ave. Blvd., Milwaukee, Wis." |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Monument in Washington Park with two male figures side by side on a plinth in the center, with curved walls ending in two small columns surrounding them, w... |
| 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 ... |
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| Description: | Train station in the distance, with a man standing in the foreground on steps leading down to the lake, near a fenced-in pond. On the left are railroad tra... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | View toward the front entrance of the cabin with a stone chimney on the right. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View along top of hill in the park toward a woman and child sitting on a bench near the monument. At the bottom of the hill on the left are railroad tracks... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of city over Kilbourn Park Reservoir. In the grass is the name of the park in large white letters. Caption reads: "Kilbourn Park Reservoir, M... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Statue of soldier holding a sword, seated on a horse, erected in 1905. The statue stands on an engraved plinth. Caption reads: "Kosciuszko Monument, Kosciu... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A boat with five people are on a lake surrounded by trees. Behind them are several docked boats. In the background is a park area with a red-roofed buildin... |
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