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| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of fire fighters on the side of a building and standing on the ground lifting people out of a building. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Fire fighters on ladders climbing up to the windows of a burning building. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Fire fighters on the ground spraying water from a fire hose. |
| Date: | 05 02 1956 |
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| Description: | Father demonstrates controls of a mini-race car as his daughter sits in the car. |
| Date: | 02 20 1963 |
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| Description: | Union members of Local 317 in Milwaukee strike outside the Electric Co.'s N. Edison Street plant. It was a very cold night. |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Commercial pilot C.B. "Cash" Chamberlain posed with a Hamilton Metalplane owned by Universal Airlines. Chamberlain began his flying career with the Walter ... |
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| Description: | A Milwaukee member of the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workers of North America gutting a beef carcass on the dressing floor. |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Freedom House in flames after Milwaukee Police fired tear gas into the building. Two armed officers stand in front of the burning building. Both officers h... |
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| Description: | Father James Groppi speaking through a megaphone from the hood of a bus. Groppi stands with Alderperson Vel Phillips. Several of the people in the assemble... |
| Date: | 11 04 1937 |
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| Description: | Factory worker in safety goggles tests the hardness of TracTracTor (crawler tractor) roller shells on a Gogan machine at Milwaukee Works. Photograph taken ... |
| Date: | 05 16 1958 |
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| Description: | Milwaukee Braves first baseman Joe Adcock swinging a bat, possibly in spring training 1958. Known for his power, Adcock had an off year in 1958, hitting 1... |
| Date: | 11 04 1937 |
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| Description: | Two factory workers pour molten metal into diesel engine crankcase forms at the Milwaukee Works foundry. Photograph taken by Don Jones. |
| Date: | 06 08 1959 |
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| Description: | Lew Burdette, pitcher for the Milwaukee Braves baseball team, swinging a bat against the Chicago Cubs on June 8, 1959. Burdette, always known as a good hit... |
| Date: | 12 07 1955 |
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| Description: | A worker welds together sections of a press slide that was later purchased by Federal Engineering and used by the automotive industry. |
| Date: | 03 03 1956 |
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| Description: | Two long-time Falk employees, Bob Quitzow and Frank Ruscitti, work in the gas cutting department. Original Falk caption reads: "View of 'Bug' cutting Depar... |
| Date: | 04 14 1956 |
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| Description: | Two men simultaneously weld. According to an original Falk caption, "rough weight. 72000 pound est.-Unit was rough machine to with [sic]. 1/4 inch o... |
| Date: | 06 14 1957 |
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| Description: | Two seated men weld a sugar mill drive that was later purchased by E.L. Dennis Engineering Company of New Orleans, Louisiana and used by A. Wilbert's Sons ... |
| Date: | 06 1957 |
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| Description: | A seated man welds a sugar mill drive that was later purchased by E.L. Dennis Engineering Company of New Orleans, Louisiana and used by A. Wilbert's Sons M... |
| Date: | 11 13 1959 |
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| Description: | Two male employees weld a large gear. Original Falk caption reads, "Made in halves, 16 feet to zero inch in diameter on the top. Ribs 4 1/2 OL. Premachine ... |
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